NINETY five per cent of centre-Left voters couldn’t care less about climate issues, ranking jobs, affordable energy and health as far more important. Among centre-right voters – who traditionally support the Liberal National Party – the divide is even greater with only two in a hundred rating climate change as an election issue.
TRADE union bosses and ALP stalwarts have come in boots flying against Labor’s radical Left-wing climate agenda – calling it “electoral poison”. Realising the damage inflicted by Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Bill Shorten’s decade-long embrace of Greens Party policy, the unions have stepped in to to rescue the “soul of the Party”.
LABOR shadow minister Joel Fitzgibbon has spectacularly quit his resources portfolio after a Party room shouting match on Monday, further weakening Anthony Albanese’s grip on the leadership. The pair are reported to have had a mid-meeting verbal brawl which saw Mr Fitzgibbon storm out after saying he regretted not running for the ALP leadership.
WITH the US presidential election result still before the courts, Leftist Liberal MPs have gone all in with Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s climate policies. Mr Biden, who has been unofficially crowned President-elect by a number of partisan US media networks, has been a vocal supporter of his Party’s radical Green New Deal agenda.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean has hinted at a Julia Gillard-style carbon tax to force the “decarbonisation” of the State’s electricity. Mr Kean, who doubles as NSW’s energy minister, has thrown his support behind a discussion paper calling for the reintroduction of a carbon tax, according to Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.
THE ALP shadow cabinet has backflipped on environmental policy, embraced gas and declared Australia will not be a low-carbon economy “anytime soon”. The Party has been involved in a public civil war since its crushing defeat in last May’s “unlosable” federal election – which it had dubbed the “climate change” election.
LEFT-wing Liberals have ignored Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s pro-jobs position and have this week swung in behind climate activist MP Zali Steggall’s anti-gas campaign. With the Prime Minister declaring gas meant jobs, the renegade “Modern” Liberals this week attempted to block gas exploration via a parliamentary motion.
WITH Labor in the throes of a climate civil war, a frantic Zali Steggall is demanding Left-wing Liberals back her radical push for renewable energy – and help salvage her political career while at it. The global warming obsessed Warringah MP has targeted Malcolm Turnbull acolytes Jason Falinski, Tim Wilson and Dave Sharma in an attempt to revive her failing single-issue agenda.
AFTER years of double speak and dragging its heels on mining approvals, Labor has now publicly embraced coal as Queensland’s 2020 election looms. Holding a slim two seat majority, ALP Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is targeting regional electorates to assist her retain government – albeit with a bet each way.
NSW Environment & Energy Minister Matt Kean has prioritised his personal ideology first and foremost, placing at risk NSW citizens’ jobs while doing so.
The Liberal Party minister, who is breathlessly nicknamed Captain Planet by his Greens Party allies, has been accused of sabotaging NSW energy investment.
