by PAUL COLLITS – THE NSW Liberals are again in crisis with Leader Mark Speakman on shaky ground – and he can ultimately thank James Griffin for the mess.
Speakman has recently sought to turn his social media image into Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
- Liberal strategy is to pre-select a Teal with a penis to defeat a Teal without one.
- So, the electorate gets a Teal whoever wins the election.
- Here is some free advice for the NSW Liberals. Get rid of Teals with penises.
As Yoni Bashan noted in The Australian newspaper, Speakman looks more like a “banking teller”.
An unfortunate comparison, perhaps, given that the NSW Division is heavily in debt following its recent disastrous national election campaign.
WALLY
James Morrow on The Outsiders program calls Speakman “wally of the week”. This is being polite.
Speakman’s current troubles have a little to do with the resignation of his frontbencher, Wendy Tuckerman, who is sick of wind turbines being erected in her Goulburn electorate and the local community being ignored.
The Electricity Infrastructure Investment Amendment (Priority Network Projects) Bill 2025 passed on Thursday, August 7, giving Labor’s Environment Minister extra powers to manage renewable energy projects.
In Friday’s speech, Ms Tuckerman said she was outraged at only learning about the draft legislation this week, while other MPs had been briefed previously.
“The bill was presented to the Party room without due process and without due consideration by Shadow Cabinet,” she said.
Which brings us to James Griffin, the NSW shadow minister for all things climate catastrophic.
He was up to his green armpits in the debacle this week over the “emergency” energy bill that will enable the NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe to bulldoze regional communities with even more force than she already has at her disposal.
Here is Sky News on Griffin’s role in the disaster: “The Minns Government said it notified the opposition’s energy spokesman James Griffin about the legislation more than a week ago.
“However, the policy was not raised by Mr Griffin on Monday at a shadow cabinet meeting and was first flagged the day after, when the legislation was brought before the lower house.”
So, to get this straight. The NSW Liberals favour giving the NSW Government the power to carpet bomb the State with wind turbines – like the 800 bound for Goulburn’s environs – with even fewer restraints on its power to do so.
The only conclusion is that the NSW Liberals are happy to see this outcome.
Well, of course they are.
DIG
Let’s dig a little on Griffin. He is the Member for Manly. Teal country and a long way from regional NSW and the wind farm carnage it is suffering.
He was shoe-horned into Manly some years back (2017) as part of the get Tony Abbott campaign run by Liberal Svengali Michael Photios.
Griffin claimed to his pre-selectors to be “non-factional” at the time. Oh, he did, did he? The main thing was, he kept out a conservative considered by Liberal “powerbrokers” to be unelectable in a seat like Manly.
So, the Liberals’ electoral strategy is to pre-select a Teal with a penis to defeat a Teal without a penis.
If I have this right, that would mean that the electorate gets a Teal, whoever wins the election.
And, whoever wins the seat, the parliament gets a greenie wedded to the climate hoax and the renewables scam.
Which proves that the Liberals are only interested in being in government. A blinding insight, I know.
Griffin used to be an employee of KPMG, part of the green-corporate, consulting, private equity industrial complex.
SCAM
KPMG is part of the corporate-enabled scam and is a poster boy for green fellow travellers.
It is a perfect grounding for a Modern Liberal headed for Macquarie Street.
There is yet more to Griffin. His mother is a Greens Party member and former Greens councillor. No surprises there.
Embarrassing? Not really. Cathy Griffin may have been campaigning against her son. But the two of them would be as one on climate and energy.
As James said: “She’s pretty passionate about the environment and good on her.”
Good on her. A Green. What a delightfully succinct microcosm of the modern Liberal Party.
James Griffin remained “close to Matt Kean” in 2022, after Kean’s departure from the cabinet.
There wouldn’t be a sliver of rice paper between those two on energy and climate. The huge gap is between them and the Party base.
And the silent majority of the electorate – those who haven’t been duped into either passive support for green energy, and/or don’t know what the heck the debate is all about.
In other words, Griffin is fit for Liberal purpose.
Mark Speakman, in desperation, called on Nick Greiner for help. Yesterday’s man-flop. Who literally threw government away in 1991 and lumped NSW with million dollar-a-year public servants.
The “dry and warm” Greiner turned out to be merely wet and, ultimately, a woke, globalist idiot dressed in corporate clothes.
Here is some free advice for the NSW Liberals. Get rid of Teals with penises.
OPPOSE
Forget Griffin and Greiner. Replace the Unspeakable One. Grow a set. Oppose. Consign net-zero to the dust bin of history. Renew liberalism by rejecting renewables.
None of this will ever happen, of course.
Not while Michael Photios and his ideological descendants remain in situ.
Back in the late 2000s at Beaufort in Victoria, Tony Abbott said at a (private) Liberal Party branch meeting that “climate change is bullshit”.
If only he had been willing to say it publicly and to defend his position, Australian politics and the state of the Liberal Party might now be very different.
He bequeathed to Morrison and to Dutton a future of halfwayism and work-arounds on climate, a thoroughly disaffected base and consequent electoral irrelevance.
And he bequeathed to us the Party of James Griffin. And the apparently heroic Wendy Tuckerman, who, despite resigning, refused to condemn the whole net-zero scam.
She merely critiqued the “process”.
Alas, Tony. You were the one best placed to blow the Liberal tip-toeing out of the water and to embed climate realism, science, backbone and principle. A missed opportunity. And a strategic one, at that.
Andrew Hastie (a potential Liberal future leader) reckons that “a majority” of his Liberal colleagues in Canberra favour ditching net-zero. Well, just do it then.
A restoration remains a long way off, while the Liberal rump continues to postpone embracing a spine.PC
Climate change remains bs. Its a financial scam that too many in the once Liberal party leadership are hooked into, many grateful for being in parliament earning an income with benefits they once dreamt. The real beneficiaries are renewable investors and apolitical lobbyists.
My sense is the indians are stirring, the net zero zealots hypocrisy is dawning. The hip pocket is the ultimate test market, carefully circumvented by our betters at the ABC, SMH, Saturday Paper and other encyclicals. It will take a cogent Coalition with long forgotten testicular courage to complete the rout, will that happen? My suggestion is keep up the prayers.
The Liberals in NSW who are mostly of the moderate faction must be helped to wither away and the NSW Nationals must expand into becoming the controlling majority of the Coalition.
This happened in Qld and in WA. NSW Nationals have however been far too weak at times, remember their woke education ministers! Federal Nationals like Matt Canavan and Barnaby Joyce are substantially better than any Federal Liberal except perhaps, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
Can’t see the LP coming back from the wilderness.They haven’t anyone strong enough to clean the swamp,that’s across the board not just NSW
Griffin, a protege of the hideous matt kean, does not have a penis.