The Future Made in Australia plan was never about creating jobs any more than the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act was designed to control the cost of living. The primary goal of these Orwellian-named schemes is to misallocate public funds to dubious projects to tackle climate change.
Australia muddles along, shackled to a 34 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 that it cannot possibly meet under a Luddite government fighting a rearguard action against nuclear energy that defies rational explanation.
Donald Trump’s “hell to pay” rhetoric signals the decisive action against anti-Semitism that has been missing for four years
Donald Trump does not deserve all the credit for the decline of woke corporatism, but his election has undoubtedly accelerated the trend. Woke will be starved of federal funding, and universities will be pressured to roll back initiatives.
No one in this devious and duplicitous administration is prepared to say how much money the government will need to plunder to pay for the energy transition.
The rush towards renewables is driving a dangerous new dependency on China – it’s cornered 80 per cent of the global solar market.
Anthony Albanese’s terminal inability to rise above his character failings has raised conservative hopes that the next Brexit moment may be a matter of months away. Trump’s victory in the US has raised conservative morale.
The anti-nuclear left is immune to contrary facts, paying homage to ‘the science’ while disregarding the laws of physics.
Broken Hill plight exposes the gap between the promise of renewable energy and what it actually delivers.
Our best hope is to persuade the environmentally anxious millennials and Generation Z to stop fretting about stranded polar bears and get busy making babies. If present trends continue, the next great extinction may be our own.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/nick-cater