End Climate Madness, Win Elections
Labor lost the unlosable 2019 election due in part to an insane fixation on climate change. Some within Labor now fear for the party’s future unless it aligns on climate with the Coalition.
Labor lost the unlosable 2019 election due in part to an insane fixation on climate change. Some within Labor now fear for the party’s future unless it aligns on climate with the Coalition:
A growing number of Labor MPs are urging Anthony Albanese to adopt the Coalition’s 2030 emissions reduction targets, with one warning the party may never win another election unless it takes a more moderate position on climate change.
Amid concerns Labor needs to broaden its appeal, senators Alex Gallacher and Glenn Sterle have backed resources spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon’s calls to adopt the government’s medium-term target to lower emissions by 26-28 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030.
“If we don’t accept that, we may never get back into government,” Senator Gallacher told The Weekend Australian …
“We can’t keep dodging and weaving to some band of bloody followers who want to save the planet.
"We all want to save the planet but we need to do it sensibly and pragmatically and not cut our nose off to spite our face.”
Instead of merely duplicating the Coalition’s stance, why not go even further?
Labor has a chance here to represent working Australians. Ditch the Paris agreement, drop carbon reduction targets and run hard on industrial expansion.
On our two major issues – rebuilding Australian manufacturing so we’re less dependent on China and rebuilding the post-coronavirus economy – Labor could clean up.
Go for it. Meanwhile, unpopular people who don’t know how things work but who’ve been allowed by Labor to dictate terms are now demanding economic ruin:
Absolute idiocy. Elimination strategy has been ruled out by medical experts advising National Cabinet because without a vaccine it is pointless. What if a vaccine is 5 years away or never comes? Do we lock our country and borders forever? https://t.co/5cB32ba0bj
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 17, 2020