by PAUL COLLITS – THE departing Member for Hornsby has the nose of Pinocchio. His latest lie was to suggest that he was off to seek new opportunities “in the energy industry”.
Little did we know that this had a more specific meaning.
- If Albanese wanted expertise, he might have appointed Peter Ridd or Ian Plimer.
- It isn’t Kean’s expertise that is offered and needed. It is ideology.
- Kean and his peers have made careers out of mainstreaming their fringe views.
As The Guardian reports: “Former NSW Liberal treasurer Matt Kean has faced criticism for taking a new job as the new chair of the Climate Change Authority after he was appointed by the Albanese government on Monday.
“Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed Kean had been chosen for the ‘important’ role on Monday in a surprise cross-Party appointment.
ALWAYS BELONGED
“Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen acknowledged Kean’s Liberal ties but insisted ‘carbon dioxide doesn’t recognise political Parties’.”
A surprise? Not really.
Sky News host Liz Storer says Labor’s appointment of Matt Kean is where he has “always belonged”.
Indeed.
The photo accompanying the story showed two of the most contemptible politicians in Australia since Al Grassby and Tony Windsor. One-Term Albo and Matt the Rat, together at last. Politics as choreography.
The Climate Authority claims to be an independent statutory body established under the Climate Change Authority Act 2011 to provide expert advice to the government on climate change policy.
If it is meant to offer “expert advice”, one can only wonder why they picked Kean. What he knows about climate change could comfortably fit on the head of a pin.
If they wanted expertise, they might have appointed Peter Ridd or Ian Plimer. No, it isn’t expertise that is offered and needed. It is ideology.
Another lie, then.
DEPART
Ignoring mad gnome Bowen’s inane intervention, there has been merely a sliver between the climate policies of the main Parties since Tony Abbott was forced to depart the prime ministership.
Of concern is the propriety of inducing the resignation of an MP with the promise of a reward. Yes, the impropriety can cross jurisdictions.
The cases of fomer NSW Education Minister Terry Metherell and former NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro both attracted ICAC (NSW’s Independent Commission Against Corruption) interest.
The Feds now have a similar body. Maybe they should take a look at this sleazy appointment.
Another issue raised is Kean’s lies about former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. He was effusive in his farewell speech in the NSW Parliament.
Ending his 13-year run in politics, he paid tribute to Berejiklian and called her exit from politics a “grave injustice”.
In a valedictory speech attended by former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy, as well as federal MPs Paul Fletcher, Julian Leeser and Philip Ruddock, Mr Kean thanked Ms Berejiklian for her “incredible leadership” and the “unshakeable belief that she had in me”.
Err, no. Gladys was found to have acted corruptly. She was also a COVID dictator, a dripping wet Leftie, clueless about Australia’s cultural heritage and its urban history.
Berejiklian was a mere factional warrior whose first cabinet in 2017 was picked by her puppeteer, Michael Photios. What is the female version of the Peter principle?
(The Peter Principle theorises that most employees are promoted to the point of incompetence.)
That Gladys had faith in Kean says it all.
No doubt Kean told lies to his colleagues about his departure. Well, who cares about that?
What the NSW Liberals feel about the betrayal of a factional creature doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in the overall scheme of things.
CLEVER
But it is, nonetheless, a measure of the man. (Was it all a clever Albo feint in the face of Peter Dutton’s nuclear play? A reminder to the people that the Liberals are compromised on climate?)
We now have a political career structure in which those on the make simply do their time in politics then march off to a higher place in the scheme of things.
There is a new meaning to the old insult “time server”, which makes the whole notion of honestly representing voters and Party a bit of a myth.
It is now all about me! Or in Matt Kean’s case Mini-Me – as in Malcolm Turnbull’s deputy sheriff.
Then there are the lies Matt, no doubt, told his then partner when he was sexting his parliamentary colleague, Eleni Petinos.
“Really need to f#ck you,” Kean wrote in the text, which was sent just days after Christmas.
Oops. As festive greetings go, it was impressive.
Then there is the lie that Matt Kean was, in any sense, a liberal, with or without the capital L.
The Menzies ideological coalition put together in the 1940s always contained wets and dries, liberals and conservatives.
Few Liberal leaders have made these inevitable fissures seem unimportant, and were able successfully to sideline them. Menzies, obviously. Then Howard.
Abbott never stood a chance, with so many traitors in the ranks sharpening their knives from day one.
Then we come to Dutton. There are signs that he is on track to becoming another Liberal unifier and factional sideliner. It is by no means a certainty. But the signs are promising.
But with Kean, what can you say? What would Menzies say of him? He has been a far Left green in a blue suit. Nothing more and nothing less.
It is astonishing, even considering the fetid culture and practices of the NSW Liberal Division, that he was able to run the lie of his liberalism for so long.
A career of lies for Matt.
Then we come, at last, to the big lie. This may well be a lie that Kean has been telling himself, about the “threat” of climate change.
BELIEVER
I suspect that Kean is a true climate believer, and not merely a climate grifter.
He also used his tear-filled speech to call for more national action against climate change, which he said was the “challenge of our generation”, likening it to overcoming Nazism during WWII and communism during the Cold War.
I know, it’s hard to tell. Grifter or deluded? If I am right, then it is the self-deception here that matters.
Climate change is pure madness. None of it is true. The whole package is risible.
If Matt Kean believes it, well, whoop-di do. If silly climate buffoons believe it, good for them. Everyone has to have an interest.
Alas, Kean and his peers have made careers out of mainstreaming their fringe views and then forcing these fringe views on the rest of us.
In Kean’s case, having claimed to be a Liberal, he screwed our economy and our polity. This is his big crime, based on the big lie he seems to have been telling himself.
And now he is off to Albo. Crying as he goes, all the way to the bank and to the climate class.PC
I genuinely value your work, Great post.
Makes you realise how bad the NSW Liberals had become,with Gladys the green,endorsing Kean on a deal with Perrottett etc.Love to know who is going to vote for them next time round?
It is no wonder voters dislike our politicians with a passion. Mark that man as yesterdays’s man at the next election. In fact, it ought to be a criminal offence to lie, esp the bigger ones. We need people of conscience like Sen Payman, not the Albos and the others hiding behind their limited tenure.
“We need people of conscience like Sen Payman […]”
LOL, she has a conscience but no wisdom. She is a refugee from Afghanistan who cannot comprehend why that country is dirty, violent, and corrupt – she fled, but she does not know why.
Just wait till people like her are in a majority in our parliaments; Australia will be just like her homeland. To which place will people like her run then?
I always refer to him as “slime green Kean”. He is so stupid he never learned to spell . He did not understand that TEAM does not include the word ‘I’.
Can anybody explain why a person of sound mind takes notice of the opinion of a young girl – Greta who:-
1. Did not complete her schooling,
2, Has acknowledged mental problems, and
3. Is the only person in the world who can see and smell an invisible and odourless gas co2 which makes up 0.04 % of the atmosphere ??????????
Makes you realise how long the NSW Liberals in particular were hoodwinked by the Labor/lites running the party.
One of the greatest stories in years. I was so overjoyed to hear that the FAKE ring is left of the Communist Party; liberal has left, but has he resigned from our once great party? He alone was the reason I did not vote Liberal in the recent election in the Lower House, after 59 years of voting, and 46 years party membership, which sadly ended in 2011 because of the Photios take over actions, and nothing being done to stop it.
New Climate Tzar Matt ‘Turncoat’ Kean has joined forces with our Minister for High Energy Prices Chris ‘Blackout’ Bowen. Kean is certainly now where he belongs.
With a combined IQ of 160, they should be able to do far more damage to our economy and environment working together than they could ever have done working separately.
Their ‘renewables only’ energy plan is unique in that no other country on the planet is attempting such an impossible task.
Do Bowen and Kean realise the enormity of the 2050 mission on a global scale?
In a report published recently by the Fraser Institute and commented on by Nick Cater from the Menzies Research Centre, almost 1.5 billion gasoline and diesel vehicle engines around the world must be converted to electricity.
In addition, almost all the world’s agricultural and crop-processing machinery must be replaced, including 50 million tractors and more than 100 million irrigation pumps.
New heat sources must be developed to smelt iron, manufacture cement and glass, process chemicals and preserve food.
More than half a billion domestic, industrial and institutional gas furnaces must be abandoned.
New forms of motive power must be found for 120,000 merchant vessels, and we’ll need to develop a carbon-free way of keeping 25,000 jetliners in the air.
And all of this must be achieved in a single generation.
Good luck with that guys! 😉
Combined IQ of 160? I see a lot of inflation in that number!
Nasty looking piece of work, isn’t he?
Please explain why covering most of the forest and farmlands with wind tower forests, solar paddocks and a web connecting them of electricity transmission lines is environmentally acceptable when the existing power station locations still generate most of the electricity today and can be changed over to emissions-free nuclear reactor replacing coal heated boilers? Same generators for both technologies.
And the existing main electricity transmission lines grid SA TAS VIC NSW ACT QLD can continue to be used with nuclear power stations.
As for nuclear waste, think torch batteries – when fully charged the bulb shines brightly, as the batteries discharge the bulb dims and then fully discharged or depleted batteries are replaced, but they look the same as when they were installed.
So consider nuclear reactor fuel rods encasing enriched uranium, inserted like those batteries and remain inserted until the uranium is depleted and then the spent fuel rods are removed and replaced, still containing the now depleted uranium and having low radiation level.
Latest technology allows for recycling of nuclear fuel rods resulting in even less radiation when depleted.
Solar. If the Energy clown were to use his noddle, he would create no interest or low interest loans to have every house with enough solar panels to achieve energy neutral. I have 28 panels and I achieve that status. Only I do not have a battery, and ACTEWAGL wrote and said we will increase your feed in payment, get this from 10c to 8c/kwh. What a joke and pure hypocrisy. There are 4m homes with solar and 11m homes out there. Put your money where your mouth is Mr Bowen. While you’re at it, how about deep water wave generation? 21000km of coastline with wave generators would not spoil the landscape like windfarms and solar. BTW-has any country come up with a solution for dealing with nuclear waste?
Anybody asked Mr Kean about his save the Koala mission lately?
Can Koala survive in forests of tall wind turbines replacing old growth forests?
What was that UN Agenda 21 – Sustainability item “for future generations” National Parks & Wildlife?
Private sector job considered?
Only just received an offer from Minister Bowen?
But that was weeks ago before the private sector was mentioned?
Sitting Member of Parliament New South Wales offered a Federal Government position?
Anybody remember similar past events, and where they ended up?