On the eve of the previous Federal Election, I authored an opinion piece in this publication entitled, We need passion in our politics. I wrote: ‘I am firmly convinced that neither the Liberal nor the Labor Parties should be allowed the privilege of running our country.’
I argued that neither party had the political will to stop wasting money on a non-solution to a non-problem. The non-problem being global warming. That we are still wasting money on the same non-problem says much about our politicians’ inability to learn on the job.
Where is the leader who has the courage to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and ensure we have adequate and cheap power from coal, hydro-power, and, if necessary, nuclear?
That ‘Global Warming’ and man-made ‘Climate Change’ are hyped scams should have been obvious to any thinking politician. That it apparently still isn’t condemns most of our Pollies to the yard of unquestioning sheep, incapable of leadership and behaving as followers of those who propose policy against the interests of the Australian people. Policy that is sending us broke and sending manufacturing businesses offshore.
I find it incredible and unacceptable that here we are, three years later, and if anything, further away from cheap reliable power. During this term of Parliament, we have seen the ongoing rise in power prices causing businesses across the country to shut-up shop. While the always unbelievable Bowen is still sprouting claims of cheaper power from renewables, the arguments against wind and solar power are understood by everyone, including school kids. The truth is that no country has succeeded in producing its base-load power from wind and solar.
Wind and solar power equals higher power prices coupled with less reliability of timely delivery. If you think the expensive green elephant of Snowy 2 will help, you are sadly mistaken. Any power source that requires 120 units of power to produce 100 units of power, should never have been built in the first place. Snowy 2 is just another example of an incapacity for rational thought and incapacity to make reasoned decisions. For the money wasted on this ‘green elephant’ we could have built several conventional hydro power stations producing most of the power we need on the east coast. These schemes, most of which have been assessed and designed, would have the added benefits of flood control and increased crop production in the valleys in which they were built.
As I watch with disdain the whirligig pronouncements of both major parties in the present election, I am again coming to the conclusion that a vote for the more rationally nuanced smaller parties may again be the best option for the Australian people.
We must have leadership with both vision and passion.
Passion for our opportunities. Passion for our capabilities. Passion for our people and their capabilities. Australia can be great. We can be united. We can be prosperous, but not when our major parties are forever involved in a whirligig of personal attack and national policy is forgotten.
Only when those seeking high office love Australia passionately enough to treat every citizen with the respect of equality, will our country prosper and it is up to voters to establish who those people are and assist them into Parliament.
Just as I did at the previous federal election I will at this election vote for a someone who is capable of loving and treating every Australian equally. Someone who unequivocally supports one law for all and promotes equal opportunity and responsibility.
From respect for one another will grow a stronger Australia.
