Akerman: After little more than a year in office, Labor is already stuck on wrong side of history
On many policies – including energy, Ukraine and the Voice – the Labor-Greens-Teals are failing miserably and are blinded by their ideology to the harm they are causing, writes Piers Akerman.
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Labor Party shills like to shriek the erroneous Marxist claim that conservatives are on the “wrong side of history”. That is classic disinformation.
It is the Albanese government that is demonstrably on the wrong side of history from its bogus energy policy, its failure to offer genuine support to Ukraine, even to its boasts for the undefinable benefits of a racist Yes vote in the Voice referendum.
As increasingly more and more Western nations realise the utter stupidity in permitting Greta Thunberg to have dictated their energy policies with catastrophic warnings about the unproven and highly debatable global warming scam on which the science is certainly not decided, Labor clings to its fantasy. Thanks to the totally delusional ideological commitment of federal Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris “Blackouts” Bowen, Australia is experiencing some of the highest electricity prices in the world though our nation possesses some of the greatest coal, gas and uranium reserves of any country on the planet.
Sweden, once hailed by the progressives (was there ever a greater misnomer than labelling these retrogressives as progressive?) has renounced its plans to adopt a 100 per cent renewables target due to fears of short-term energy security and is looking to join several European nations building new nuclear plants.
Bowen and Albo, and their Greens and Teal fellow travellers, are sticking to their unachievable goals of Net Zero, pushing for greater reductions in the use of essential so-called fossil fuels – the coal and gas that are requisites not only for transport but for the production of plastics, medicines and almost everything the modern world relies upon.
Further, to achieve this green wet dream, Bowen said a year ago that we would need to install 22,000 solar panels every day and 40 wind turbines every month in order to reach his renewable targets for 2030.
As one astute observer has noted, that was a year ago and nothing like that is happening. We would now need to install 25,000 solar panels every day and 45 wind turbines every month to reach Bowen’s target.
Bowen stood beside NSW Energy Minster Penny Sharpe last week, the day after Sydney had experienced its coldest day of the year, to announce that yet another big battery would be bought by taxpayers in an attempt to fill the big black energy hole.
In the Greens-Labor-Teal energy dreaming, batteries mysteriously produce electricity. They don’t. They store it and they can barely keep the lights on for much more than an hour. As for the claim they’d lower power prices, read your next electricity bill, recall the promise to slash costs by $275, and start crying.
When it comes to Ukraine, Labor migrated to the wrong side of history when it decided to clear out the defence department garages of junked, outdated equipment and ship its antiques to Kyiv.
To further show its half-hearted support for the Ukrainians, Treasury has snubbed a request for a tax deal that would have made it easier for Australian companies to invest in rebuilding the war-torn country.
To make it more galling, we already have the tax deal with more than 40 countries – including Russia.
As for the Voice, the US Supreme Court has just ruled against universities practising affirmative action and opted for a colourblind policy. Yet Labor here is still pushing for a constitutional race-based clause.
It’s hard to see any objection to an acknowledgment of an Aboriginal presence 225 years ago, but locking those with some Indigenous heritage into a state of permanent victimhood is just not on. Particularly when those leading the Yes campaign boast that it would be just a first step into claiming sovereignty, treaties and reparations.
On energy, Ukraine, the Voice and so many other policies, the Labor-Greens-Teals are stuck on the wrong side of history.
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