AUSTRALIA’S farming families are being steamrolled by governments to meet the net-zero demands of inner-city elites and the political class.
“There has never been a more important time to hear their stories,” according to Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, Daniel Wild.
- The rights of property owners and farmers are being extinguished.
- These green projects are destroying our prime agricultural land.
- It will never be the wealthy, inner-city elites who face their livelihoods being destroyed.
Launched on Sky News Australia’s Credlin program, the IPA’s new documentary, The Faces of Net Zero, tells the stories of our farmers living with the threat of having their farms, their livelihoods and their communities destroyed to placate inner-city climate nutjobs.
“Australians know the economic, social and environmental devastation caused by net-zero policies, but it is the human tragedy unfolding in regional communities that demands the attention of policymakers,” Mr Wild said.
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“Every politician, faceless bureaucrat, corporate CEO and university academic who supports net-zero must look their fellow Australians in the eye and understand what is being done to their lives.
“Renewable energy projects are dividing regional communities – pitting neighbour against neighbour.
“The rights of property owners and farmers are being extinguished – and these projects are destroying our prime agricultural land.”
The Faces of Net Zero documentary has been produced over the past 12 months and focuses on farming families impacted by the VNI West transmission project in Victoria’s Wimmera and Mallee regions.
It is their story, in their own words.
Research Fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs, Mia Schlicht, said the release of the documentary is timely given the Victorian Government’s attempt to stripe further rights from farmers.
“The Victorian Government is attempting to grant itself extraordinary powers that will give unaccountable ‘authorised officers’ the ability to enter farms, with force, if farmers refuse to acquiesce to demands to have net-zero projects built on their property,” she said.
“Jacinta Allan’s net-zero agenda is unconscionable, draconian and violates the rule of law and the rights of farming families to defend their private property and their very own homes.” “Faces of Net Zero exposes the true impact of this unachievable policy.
“As usual, it will not be the wealthy, inner-city elites who face their livelihoods being destroyed in the name of climate; rather it’s families and small businesses in the outer-suburbs and regions who pay the price.” PC
