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Vikki Campion was a reporter between 2002 and 2014 – leaving the media industry for politics, where she has worked since. She writes a weekly column for The Saturday Telegraph.

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Participants wearing Australian and Aboriginal flags are seen aboard the ferry Emerald 6 during the annual Australia Day Ferrython on Sydney Harbour, Friday, January 26, 2018. (AAP Image/ Glenn Campbell) NO ARCHIVING

Ashamed of Australia Day? Then don’t take the extra day off

Australia Day has been cheapened to an extra day off for those guilt-tripped into an erroneous view of what the day represents, writes Vikki Campion.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER 07, 2022: Chris Bowen, Minister for Climate Change and Energy, during Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Platitudes on power help hide the politics of spin

Labor’s consultation paper for its $1.9 billion policy to make Australia ‘a renewable energy superpower’ is a prime example of a strange language known as ‘platitudism’. Vikki Campion translates.

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PM needs to beware whiny, privileged know-it-alls

Anthony Albanese has a lot of big challenges ahead, writes Vikki Campion, and he would do well to talk to real Australians about them, rather than listen to pampered suburbanites.

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MP for North Sydney Kylea Tink poses for a photograph with her supporters at Jeffrey Street Wharf in Sydney, Monday, May 23, 2022. Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman has lost his seat of North Sydney to independent Kylea Tink. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

How Teal eco warriors fuel hypocrisy

While the Teals were pushing for changes to Australian fuel standards that would see the end of cheap E10 petrol, they were happy to hawk trashy merch brought to our shores by polluting mega-ships, writes Vikki Campion.

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LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 07: Wind turbines generate electricity at Burno Bank Off Shore Wind Farm on December 07, 2022 in Liverpool, England. UK Prime minister Rishi Sunak has reversed his position on new onshore wind farms as the government said it will consult on proposals to allow further developments. (Photo by Nathan Stirk/Getty Images)

Environmentalists all at sea on ocean wind towers

Highly inefficient wind towers are detested on land, so governments are turning to the sea for sites — where they will wreak havoc on marine ecosystems, writes Vikki Campion.

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Albo’s gift of transparency wrapped in double standards

Anthony Albanese came to power promising transparency in government. What we’ve got instead is gagged debate, financial control, murky non-disclosures and confidentiality clauses, writes Vikki Campion.

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Vikki Campion. Typical school morning - making lunch boxes, begging shoes to stay on, yelling "get in the car!" and then a dirt road that falls, cliff-like, swallows front tyres and bullbar in a mud vacuum sucking with such force it threatens to swallow the vehicle your kids are strapped inside., Slipping through mire uphill to get a weak one-bar signal on your Telstra connection., Frustrated at your own shaky hands dialling roadside assist, whose main insurer is so distracted building regional electric vehicle chargers that the situation needs to be explained repeatedly, and the centralised call centre records the job as a dead battery to the frustration of local crews who realise after a 45-minute drive that they have the wrong equipment.

Try getting a Tesla out of this? Neglected regions on a road to ruin

While our city bureaucrats obsess over where to put car chargers, all regional drivers want is a safe road to drive on to get their kids to school, writes Vikki Campion.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 28, 2022: During a press conference at Parliament House, Canberra, the Nationals oppose the Voice. Leader of the Nationals David Littleproud and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price spoke to the media at the presser.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Campion: One Voice is merely an echo chamber for one opinion

The cancelling of Senator Jacinta Price for daring to express her own views on the Indigenous Voice to parliament has been nothing short of disgraceful, writes Vikki Campion.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos NOVEMBER 09, 2022: Chris Bowen during Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House in Canberra.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Campion: Bowen brushes nuclear experts for junk-level advice

Chris Bowen uses costs as an excuse for why he won’t consider nuclear energy in Australia and this week he ignored a conference that could have convinced him how wrong he is, writes Vikki Campion.

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Wind Turbines for green electricity production near Ballan in Victorias West, with sheep milling around the air-conditioning units as well as birds and an eagle flying pat the blades. Picture: Jason Edwards

Campion: The tax that will ruin rural Australia

Biodiversity tax is adding up to $300,000 to the cost of a regional home and will suffocate rural Australia — without producing any actual benefit to the environment, writes Vikki Campion.

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