PUBLIC sentiment is behind Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s economic recovery plan as anger grows at NSW Environment & Energy Minister Matt Kean’s anti-gas agenda.
The defiant State minister again raised the ire of parliamentary colleagues and voters after appearing on a Left-wing think tank this week seemingly deriding the Prime Minister’s call for a gas-led post-COVID recovery.
Talking down gas and coal, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reports that Mr Kean told the gathering they “are not the cheapest forms of reliable energy”.
“Australians are sick and tired of petty political point scoring and division on climate policy,” he told The Australia Institute forum.
“They want government to lead, they want to be assured that we are doing everything we can to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change.
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“What could be more conservative than protecting and handing our environment to the next generation better than we found it?”
Other Australia Institute guests have included climate obsessed Warringah MP Zali Steggall as well as Greens leader Adam Bandt.
Mr Kean had only last week come under fire for talking down the future of gas, placing him at odds with the Berejiklian government’s backing of the mega $3 billion job-creating Narrabri gas project as well as Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s push to increase gas supplies in NSW.
He was also criticised for posing in his office last week with striking student activists with signs saying “Fund Our Future Not Gas”.
“If you’re not for gas, you’re not for manufacturing jobs,” the Prime Minister said in response to Mr Kean’s talking down the Narrabri project.
“He’s out of step with his own government, with his Premier and with the deal he struck with the federal government.”
Mr Kean’s position is also at odds with federal ALP policy which last month endorsed a “pro-gas” platform.
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Labor’s position, endorsed by shadow cabinet, recognises Australia will not be a low-carbon economy “anytime soon”.
Outrage over Mr Kean relentlessly speaking against his own Party and the Prime Minister has voters taking to social media.
Greg writes in an online Daily Telegraph comment: “If Gladys does not get rid of Kean she will lose [the] next election. He is so Green he makes Shrek look pale.”
“Time to clean the swamp and send the many Lefties in the Liberal Party to the Greens!” Eric added.
Ivan wrote: “The Green clown of the LNP should be expelled as a matter of urgency. He is unaware of the cost of energy in this State. No wonder we have lost our manufacturing plants. China is rejoicing – lots of manufacturing industries and great sales of solar panels while we struggle.”
While Geoff summed up: “Mr Kean is a bit like Mr Turnbull, in the wrong Party.”
In an interview with Sky News anchor Alan Jones, NSW Labor frontbencher Chris Minns suggested Kean was doing Labor’s job for them.
“He’s acting like a Labor environment minister,” Mr Minns said.PC
The NSW Liberal Party left has long contended that they’d rather be in Opposition than lose their control of the NSW Libs, and have never understood that voters would rather vote for Labor than its copycat. Conversely, Labor’s right struggles with its left, realising what electoral poison that they are. Somehow a comparatively small group of greens in both parties have disenfranchised the working man, and imposed sufficiently high power prices on Australia to put pensioners in penury, to trash our manufacturing sector, to threaten our living standards, and to endanger our environment, whose champions they claim to be. The greens policies are solely responsible for the severity of last summer’s bushfires, for the beginnings of our loss of free speech, and they seek to impose a 21st century form of Stalinism and communism upon us. We should learn our lesson from Eastern Europe’s experience, as they, having endured half a century of communism, then tore down the Berlin wall in no time when afforded the opportunity to do so.
Mr Kean is Green orientation he should go and join the Greens that might be a better fit, or Gladys should disown him….but I doubt she will!
Could someone please tell The Green Kean, that renewables are subsidised by Australian taxpayers!!
It is therefore impossible to be cheaper than our own fossil fuel!!
They may also suggest that he join The Greens, and stop telling lies about the cost of renewables, which are made in China!!
As others have said on this page, Kean has to go and the sooner the better. But commenting is cheap and easy – what remains unstated is HOW are we going to get him out of the Energy portfolio – if not out of parliament altogether. Any ideas anyone? Massive petition to the Premier perhaps – I’d happily sign one!
What “Australians are sick and tired of” (at least most Liberals) are the self serving antics of Kean and his collaborators with their apparent interests in the green and other leftish industries. Like many of my colleagues I am putting my membership on hold (no funding, no electioneering) until either a return to Lib values or my patience runs out then I will.
Matt kean is embarrassing, we had just started winning votes in the country and mining areas then he pops up – like all of his type he cannot provide real scientific evidence of either carbon damage or global warming and he won’t discuss the real problems which are over-population and a dirty ocean. He makes the Nationals look more and more friendly
Kean should be made to disclose his financial interests in renewables…this irrational moron needs to be punted out of the liberal party …NSW needs base load power NOT Marxist green religion…Wake up Gladys or we will wake you up at next election