By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
CHRIS “The Climate Clown” Bowen, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, is not backing down. This fool is unashamedly continuing to claim that so-called renewables will provide Australians with cheaper electricity. He is clearly delusional.
It should not, therefore, be a difficult decision for the Liberals to decide this Wednesday, whether or not to dump the so-called Net Zero policy.
As pointed out by Matthew Sheahan of Advance Australia, as of this last Friday morning, 45,880 Australians have signed the petition calling on all major parties to dump Net Zero.
But Labor, the Greens and Teals would have us believe that most Australians support this idea of shutting down our 18 coal-fired power stations while China is still adding to its 1140 coal-fired stations – the official figure of several years ago.
Sheahan has provided five facts for Liberal Net Zero fence-sitters and outright supporters like Sussan Ley and WEF Young Global Leader and Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg, who has threatened to leave the party over the issue.
We say to Ley, Bragg and others, go join the Teals or Greens if you’re so committed to the stupid idea of destroying the electricity supply system that built modern Australia into an industrial state, but is now rapidly deindustralising.
Sheahan’s five facts for “Tealy Libs” are:
– Net Zero will cost trillions of dollars: The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) has estimated that the government’s Net Zero emission reduction policies could cost Australians anywhere between $7 trillion and $9 trillion by 20601. And yet …
– Net Zero won’t actually change anything: Achieving Net Zero won’t have a tangible impact on global emissions, with even the CSIRO admitting that our domestic output is only around 1 per cent2. Chump change compared to major emitters like China and India.
– Net Zero is gutting businesses and deindustrialising Australia: Net Zero is pushing the price of energy up, making it harder than ever to run a business and next to impossible to build anything. No wonder that manufacturers are leaving Australia. ASIC insolvency statistics revealed that over 1400 manufacturers nationally have collapsed since 2022–23.3
– Net Zero is making everyone poorer: High energy prices are pushing inflation up, from 2.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent.4 Not only is grocery shopping more expensive, higher inflation also means interest rates stay higher for longer, putting pressure on mortgages and businesses. Thanks, Net Zero.
– Net Zero is destroying the environment: Most ironically of all, Net Zero means the destruction of Australian farmland and its natural environment. Industrial-scale wind and solar power plants and transmission lines are carving through usable agricultural land, upending communities, and ruining coastlines and skylines.5 The IPA estimated that at least “9 per cent of Australia’s landmass, over 18 per cent of Australia’s agricultural land, or an area equivalent to ten Tasmanias” would be required to replace Australia’s coal and gas with wind and solar generation.6
“Advance will be making sure Liberal MPs get these facts loud and clear. And please make sure you forward them on to anyone who needs to know,” says Sheahan.
References:
1 The Institute of Public Affairs, ‘The federal government’s net zero budget blowout’, June 3, 2025.
2 CSIRO, ‘What are the sources of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?’, accessed November 7, 2025.
3 Macrobusiness, ‘Businesses gutted by soaring energy costs’, October 7, 2025.
4 Sky News, ‘Warning soaring energy costs driving inflation higher and putting Australian industries on life support’, October 30, 2025.
5 The Institute of Public Affairs, ‘The Faces of Net Zero – Real stories on the devastating impact of renewable energy’, July 23, 2025.
6 The Institute of Public Affairs, ‘Analysis Of Land Use By Variable Renewable Energy Production By 2050’, December 10, 2023.
