Greens’ job-killing Bill highlights real choice for voters as elections approach
With a federal election looming, voters should not be influenced by the green-left’s fake news. The choice is clear: higher taxes, higher power and housing prices, fewer jobs … or a government determined to drive down costs, writes Piers Akerman.
In Australia and much of the West, fake news and a swelling and unelected bureaucratic corps are undermining democracy.
Social media has been the vector for fake news, with multinationals like Facebook unashamedly publishing falsehoods claiming catastrophic climate change has cost lives and is destroying Pacific Ocean nations.
The green-left has been having a field day, and established political parties have been reluctant to tackle the masses who rely on social media for their (mis) information.
The UN has fed and used the hysteria about global warming to try to engineer the greatest wealth transference scheme ever, even as its propaganda arm, the IPCC, falters in its bid to wring more billions from reluctant nations to hand to tin pot dictatorships.
It is fitting that France, which gave the world the ridiculous Paris Agreement, is now subjected to the inevitable anarchy flowing from the disconnect between its popinjay leaders and the population.
Locally, such lunacy has led to the attempt by the federal Greens to ban all thermal coal mining in the Galilee Basin, where Adani’s controversial giant coal project is ready to go.
The bill proposed by the Greens former deputy leader, Canadian-born Senator Larissa Waters, has been opposed by an unlikely coalition of miners and the thuggish CMMFEU.
The activist Greens senator’s bill would cost Queensland nearly 20,000 construction jobs and 14,000 operational jobs, at a time the world seems on the brink of a recession and China’s economy is slowing.
Demonstrating how idiotic the Greens are, the ban they seek on the mining of thermal coal in the Galilee Basin would force foreign customers to source energy from lower grade deposits, which would increase the very emissions the party claims to be protesting.
Then again, it’s a long time since the Greens could claim to be an environmental movement. Typically, Queensland’s Labor state government is torn on the issue, delaying the Adani project to appease its supporters in trendy metropolitan seats, but giving a wink to its trade union backers and claiming it is only going through the approval processes.
In reality, it is dragging the chain on this project, further damaging the job prospects of its constituents already feeling the effects of the nation’s highest unemployment levels.
We can’t afford to throw this many jobs away.
This level of damaging and unintelligent virtue-signalling by the green-left is reflected in the campaign to unseat former prime minister Tony Abbott in his seat of Warringah.
As an MP, Abbott has been strongly supportive of the proposed tunnel to relieve traffic congestion to the northern beach suburbs, he has worked on tax relief and a study of the push to increase the local population.
Such focus on real issues is anathema to his critics, whose obsession with apocalyptic global warming modelling (against all hard evidence) and niche issues like homosexual marriage indicates a deranged detachment from policies that materially affect the electorate.
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In their delusion, the Abbott critics echo failed former leaders Kevin Rudd and his ally in narcissism Malcolm Turnbull, and are firmly aligned with foreign-backed green-left protest groups like GetUp!.
No conservative could countenance an association with GetUp!, but anti-Abbott campaigners try to woo supporters with claims they are centrist while not shying from offers of assistance from the radical organisation.
Of all Liberal prime ministers since Sir Robert Menzies, Abbott is undoubtedly the most significant after his mentor John Howard, in whose Cabinet he served.
Abbott’s opponents prefer to dwell on his much-publicised foibles, his munching on an onion and knighthood of the more-than-worthy Prince Philip, than his many achievements as prime minister, let alone his outstanding record as a great volunteer both as a firefighter and a surf life saver.
For a dissident group to claim Liberal heritage and attempt to oust such a figure indicates their lack of calibre.
In the months before the May federal election, the Coalition will face the fallout from the March 23 NSW state election in which the Berejiklian government seems likely to take a hit, and will produce a Budget in April.
With the Christmas-Australia Day hiatus still playing out, few Australians are sufficiently interested in politics to turn from the cricket, but at the end of the month the campaigns will be in full swing and the options will be presented more clearly.
There can be no doubt Labor wishes to introduce a high-taxing regime that will punish hardworking Australians and destroy whatever they have saved for their retirements.
Labor is going to appeal to those who believe they have a right to the wealth created by the sweat and toil of others.
The ALP will also seek to claim a moral high ground on such issues as illegal immigration by removing the greatest deterrent the nation has had — the refusal of the government to permit illegal maritime entrants to reach Australia.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has equivocated on this issue but, like his predecessor, the duplicitous Rudd, there is no doubt Labor will weaken the successful border protection regime and there will be renewed deaths at sea as people smugglers resume their evil trade.
Never forget that under the Greens and Labor more than 1200 men, women and children died attempting to land in Australia, and 50,000 illegal arrivals necessitated the reopening of detention camps closed by the Howard Coalition government.
The choice at this election should not be influenced by the green-left’s fake news.
Australians should consider the real options on offer — higher taxes, higher power and housing prices, fewer jobs, and greater legal and illegal immigration should they vote Labor. Or a government determined to drive down costs — whether they be taxes, electricity, or housing for younger Australians.
This election the choice is clear — vote to maintain a recognisable nation, or to join those nations heading into economic oblivion.
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