Restlessly reading the papers the other day, this caught my eye:
‘…it appears the entire political class is deliberately trying to increase construction costs and worsen housing affordability, not to mention lay the groundwork for a breakdown in social cohesion as immigration spirals out of control.’ Adam Creighton, the Institute of Public Affairs’ (IPA) chief economist, (The Australian, June 6, 2025).
Must admit, it caught my eye because it resonates with my own bleak view of what’s happening in Australia – largely as a result of the Labor government’s policies.
An economist pinpoints housing affordability and immigration as examples of policy areas that show the deliberate breaking down of quality of life in Australia. To those two big issues must be added climate alarmism that continues to inflict damage on the economy and undermine social cohesion.
I know, it was former Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison who, perhaps drunk on Kool-aid, adopted the devil’s spawn of Net Zero for which he will never be forgiven – notwithstanding his AC gong in the King’s Birthday honours. But then, as Creighton says, it’s ‘the entire political class’…
Still, Labor had a chance to ameliorate the worst impacts of policies driving towards the Net Zero cliff by applying some common sense brakes. There is no shortage of well-informed observations from qualified, independent scientists on the folly of it, nor of smart methods as to how to limit its destructive forces.
I mention science, but I believe that claiming a scientific rationale was a clever sleight of hand by proponents. There wasn’t a genuine rationale. The real agenda of climate alarmism did not emerge as science but as a means to achieve political objectives. It’s not about saving the planet but changing the world. If it were really a scientific issue, it would not be a political issue.
The most pertinent and potent policy alternative to what is being executed would be – if you consider transition to renewables essential – to delay the transition until the readiness and effectiveness of alternatives to dependable and cheap fossil fuel energy sources is at hand. The narrative pushing urgency before the end of the world is a messaging tactic. Ever since Al Gore’s The Inconvenient Truth, we have been nearing that dreaded ‘tipping point’ without ever coming close to reaching it.
At the COP15 Climate Conference in December 2009, it was predicted that the North Pole ice cap would be completely gone, ice free, by 2014.
In what is surely the most ridiculed climate alarmist claim, the agitators have had to defer the tipping point several times since.
It is inescapable that pursuing Net Zero policies extracts an energy tax on the whole system.
So my point is that, yes, the wrecking of the economy appears deliberate and climate alarmism is arguably its biggest battering ram. Australia’s spending on climate change policies under Labor is now over $9 billion a year, as Creighton’s IPA has calculated.
Feeding the deliberate breaking-up of economies and society is an encroaching communism-adjacent mindset, where class warfare is replacing rational economic policymaking. Labor’s planned supertax is one example. It is part of the attack on the rich, a classic lure for communists. Exercising control over citizens is also a lure for communists. Censoring and curtailing free speech is another. One man’s mis- and disinformation bill is a communist’s national security policy.
The sense that Australia is under some malign influence is echoed by Flat White editor Alexandra Marshall when she writes: ‘Upon returning to history it is clear that the single purpose of the Liberal Party, in all of its lifetimes, is to oppose Labor’s communism …. we have been enduring a war of attrition against stealthy communism and a fake climate apocalypse – believed by no one and yet financed by everyone.’
It is to deliberately undermine our economy and standard of living that, ‘Australia’s exciting technology future is being held back by our energy policy,’ as the head of energy research at MST Marquee, puts it. ‘Energy market rule changes targeting data centres are under consideration by the Australian Energy Market Operator: they appear poorly informed and specifically designed to throttle growth. Energy policy may be deliberately calibrated to stymie our growth agenda.’
As for social cohesion … over the June 8 weekend, we learnt that Israeli speaker and technology expert Hillel Fuld, born in New York, has responded after Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke revoked his visa citing ‘islamophobia rhetoric’ which risked inciting discord against Australia’s Muslim population. Never mind the discord among the Australian non-Muslim population over the acceptance into Australia of thousands of effectively unvetted refugees from Gaza.
Fuld, who was set to speak at fundraising events in Sydney and Melbourne hosted by Magen David Adom, an Israeli national emergency service, confirmed he had been barred from Australia ‘because of my tweets’.
In one post on X, quoting ‘all available data’, Fuld claimed up to 15 per cent of Muslims were ‘radicalised’, and that Islam was a ‘global plague’. In another post, Fuld said liberal Western values can ‘never coexist next to radical Islamic values’.
Was it shame that led the Home Affairs Minister to sign the ban as Australian Jewish Association reports, well after sunset at 5.48 pm on Friday afternoon (June 7) after the King’s birthday long weekend and Shabbat had started?
Will those of us who find Fuld’s posts credible and tend to agree with them, now self-deport or wait until the midnight knock on our door?
The Voice was an attempt at revolution – a distinct group intending to acquire power in some form. As the late historian Keith Windschuttle wrote in The Breakup of Australia: the Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition:
The goal of Aboriginal political activists today is to gain ‘sovereignty’ and create a black state, equivalent to the existing states. Its territory, comprising all land defined as native title, will soon amount to more than 60 per cent of the whole Australian continent. Constitutional recognition, if passed, would be its ‘launching pad’.
The deliberate breaking down of energy and social cohesion is another covert attempt at revolution. Climate catastrophism is the spearhead and the umbrella under which destructive agendas can be activated, easier if citizens are complacent. Or made fearful…
