Piers Akerman: We must ride Donald Trump’s bureaucracy-busting tsunami to Make Australia Great Again

Donald Trump slashing red tape across all US government departments will save Americans billions but our Green-Left government is still pouring kerosene on the inflationary fire it lit, writes Piers Akerman.

US President Donald Trump has rendered the Albanese government’s policies dangerously irrelevant.

In less than a week, Trump’s unleashed a tsunami of change that will leave nations which don’t ride on this wave stranded – and broke.

Slashing red tape across all US government departments will save Americans billions but our Green-Left government is still pouring kerosene on the inflationary fire it lit.

The cost of Australia’s absolutely senseless emissions reduction scheme and intermittent solar and wind power jumped by $4bn in the past three days even as Trump pulled the US out of the Paris agreement which has all but killed manufacturing here.

In the past week, Australians forked out $2bn to keep our aluminium industry afloat and another $2bn to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order he had signed. He has unleashed a tsunami of change. Picture: Roberto Schmidt/AFP

Albanese and his climate change clown, Chris Bowen, promised Australians cheaper electricity but these subsidies will only add to power prices.

Australians are losing their jobs and paying more to make a handful of Teal supporters and Green-Left activists feel virtuous.

Labor promised Australians cheaper electricity but the subsidies will only add to power prices. Picture: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Australia contributes just over 1 per cent of the global CO2 emissions; China, the US and India are the whales (Russia is in fourth place), but we are meant to suffer so Albo and his mates can strut the global stage.

What a joke.

The $1bn-plus-a-year ABC is running a protection racket for Labor and the Greens with its frequent claims that last year was the hottest on record without mentioning that the record doesn’t (a) go far back and (b) that, internationally, meteorological bureaus have changed their methodology, tilting the numbers from new recording stations in favour of the direst forecasts.

The ABC is so busily trying to pump up the government’s rapidly deflating tyres that its international affairs correspondent John Lyons even called commercial broadcaster 2GB to promote a meeting between senior US officials with Foreign Minister Penny Wong and our hapless Ambassador to the US, Kevin Rudd.

According to top-rating and respected radio host Ben Fordham, Lyons called to tell him that Wong and Rudd had visited the White House and met with Trump National Security Adviser Mike Waltz before meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong shakes hands with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as they meet at the State Department in Washington, DC. Picture: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP

This, Lyons told Fordham, “flies in the face of those who said Australia and Rudd would be frozen out”.

What Lyons omitted to mention was that the meeting was scheduled and that US officials also met with the Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and the Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar because Japan, India and Australia are all part of the Quad security group.

Further, the US State Department dealt with the meeting in a brief general two paragraph release which broke no new ground.

The ABC (and, predictably, SBS) are preoccupied with other Trump initiatives as they pander to their dwindling audiences.

Trump’s declaration that there are only two sexes, as is biologically true, and his excision of diversity, equity and inclusion programs and every federal employee responsible for such humbug, has the cross-dressers in a tizz.

Adding nuclear to our energy mix would also be a prudent move. Nuclear power supplied 24 per cent of Europe’s energy last year, safely and reliably.

Fortunately, one of the truly great and uniting signs is the growing support for Australia Day.

We are the luckiest people on earth but we must protect and build on the freedoms we have been gifted.

With an election due before the end of May, let’s Make Australia Great Again.

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Originally published as Piers Akerman: We must ride Donald Trump’s bureaucracy-busting tsunami to Make Australia Great Again