Greens nightmare is preparing to haunt the country
Given that Newspoll has tightened for Labor, it is virtually certain that Labor can’t win on May 18 without entering an alliance with the Greens (“Greens stir Gillard ghosts”, 1/5). So Greens leader Richard Di Natale’s call to voters who swing between Labor and Greens should gather him many extra votes.
But other voters will have nightmares of the Greens’ tail again wagging the Labor dog — despite Bill Shorten rebuffing Di Natale. But now that the Greens’ torture instruments are on display, stirring the Gillard ghosts will make these nightmares frightening indeed.
It was interesting to read that Richard Di Natale suggests the Greens form a coalition with Labor. It doesn’t take much to work out that such a liaison would be redolent of the dark years that marked the chaos of the Gillard government that relied on two independents to help ruin the economy.
Richard Di Natale says the Greens will prevent the breakdown of the climate — twaddle. He says we need more of his progressives in parliament — also twaddle. The Greens will put in place climate policies that work — pure twaddle.
There are almost 200 sovereign states in the world that share a common climate. Progress once meant advancement to a higher level and something that works usually means something that is effective.
His weasel words are meaningless mumbo jumbo. When politicians, who spruik rubbish to hoodwink the uninformed and indoctrinated, refuse to board aircraft because they are destroying the atmosphere with exhaust gases, maybe we could start heeding what they say.
The cost of Labor’s climate policy is open-ended, so any positive influence on our economy is wishful thinking. Nevertheless, Bill Shorten stands by it. Therefore, there must be tangible climate-based benefits we have not been told about, otherwise why have such a policy? More importantly, why would anyone support it?
I ask Shorten, if this policy is implemented, what will be the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in 2030, the average global temperature and the magnitude of the reduction in severe weather in Australia?
If it’s true that we are responsible for just over 1 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, aren’t we already doing enough? The politicians banging on about what they’re going to do about climate change are pathetic.
Independent candidate Zali Steggall is a prime example, saying her big concern is climate change. What the hell is she going to do about if elected? You want to protest about climate change? March around Tiananmen Square or the streets of Mumbai. Go to where the problem is.
These types have zero idea about the economy and how it works and how it affects everyone in the country. If you can’t wrap your head around the economy, you’re wasting everyone’s time going into politics.
Do we really need a term of Labor government to remind us of how it performed last time? Labor managed to destroy the bounteous circumstances left by John Howard and Peter Costello. Tony Abbott received a ringing endorsement but suffered a feral Senate and the ambition of Malcolm Turnbull. Competent conservative government by Turnbull was never likely, but with Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg at the helm and turning the ship around, we are within reach of those bounteous circumstances of earlier days.
The only good to come out of the socialist experiment in Venezuela is that it provides Australians an idea of what to expect should the Labor Party form government and proceed to implement their socialist policies of underwriting private sector wages, unlimited spending on health and education, and everything else under the sun, all funded by excessive taxes.
So, perhaps we would be wise to start stocking up on the basics. Those of us who come from the country can move back to the land and grow our own crops and run a cow or two if the Greens would allow it. But what about inner-city millennials? What will they do when they can’t afford bottled water, avo on toast and have no jobs?
Gender intervention a betrayal of the nation’s vulnerable youth
Major policy statements from democratic institutions, led by the UK’s Cass Review and the US fightback for common sense, are dropping totally disproved medical procedures.
Food industry brings home extent of our energy crisis
With big increases in electricity bills leading to higher food prices, the conclusion is that by placing ideology over pragmatism, the Albanese government has failed us.