A timid Labor leadership, lacking intelligence and imagination, is taking its party back to three-eyed fish land, a country where dogma, superstition and tribalism prevent it from embracing the only proven source of low-emission energy available at scale.
After years of being misconstrued, so-called populist leaders are beginning to bring a new clarity to the debate by defining themselves and identifying the globalist project that they strongly oppose.
Bowen was remarkably sanguine last week at the Press Club about the implosion of Andrew Forrest’s green hydrogen plan. Hours later, Twiggy’s Fortescue Metals was kicking its target down the road to Never Never Land.
The attack on the former president was an attempt to achieve what scores of lawyers and millions of legal dollars have failed to do by definitively ending his chances of a second term.
By perpetuating arcane distinction, the activist left has constructed a false moral spectrum, ranging from selfless social justice crusaders to brown-shirted, goose-stepping thugs.
The ‘anti-industry industry’ has come a long way from its humble origins in the late 1970s. Today, green activism in Australia is a quarter-billion-dollar business that employs hundreds of people.
Peter Dutton has delivered a credible threat of competition to a featherbedded industry that has grown lazy on government largesse. Squealing from the sector suggests he’s on the right track.
A consistent pattern has emerged in elections across Europe: the Green vote suffered worst in countries where the Greens have been in power.
Angela Merkel said transitioning to clean energy while phasing out both coal and nuclear power would be ‘ambitious and challenging’. She was right.
Capitalism is nothing more or less than an economy not run by the political authorities – and for decades it has been working very well.
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