AS we mentioned once or twice before, the job of Commissar Ferguson of the ABC is to ensure the political discourse of Australia stays within certain “respectable” bounds.
For the Commissar, any political person right of Teal is potentially a Nazi white supremacist and must be given the strictest, even aggressive cross examination.
The ABC’s coverage of the Nationals’ abandonment of the Net Zero commitment (but not “climate action”) was predictably negative with dramatic scenes of floods and hurricanes that we are supposed to believe are the direct result not of weather but “climate change” caused by man-made emissions.
So when National Party leader David Littleproud fronted up to the Commissar this week he knew the game he had to play.
First off the Commissar jumped to the defence of the “Tealy-feminist” Liberal leader Sussan Ley, suggesting that the Nationals might end the coalition if the Libs stick to Net Zero and “does it matter to you that you’re putting enormous pressure on her”, especially with the Liberals’ polling going southward.
“No, because she leads her own sovereign party …. and we’ll work constructively to find common ground,” the thoroughly diplomatic Littleproud assured the Commissar and “we both decided after the election we both have the right to review the policy …. “
But the Commissar pushed the issue that it was undeniable that the Nats were putting pressure on Ley’s leadership to which Littleproud most diplomatically replied “well, that’s your analysis and I respect your analysis but I’m very relaxed to allow the Liberal Party to get to their position …”
The Commissar then pushed the suggestion that the Nationals were making it difficult for the Libs to win back urban or suburban seats (where presumably most of the population are thoroughly brainwashed into the climate crisis narrative).
No, insisted Littleproud, because if you look at the Nats’ policy “we still want to reduce emissions but there’s a better, cheaper, fairer way to reduce emissions … and make sure we have a healthier, stronger climate that can adapt and making sure we do our share internationally …”
So there you have it – a prime example of Canberra political gaming. Announce a policy that goes against the grain and then assure the ABC it really “reasonable, fair, moderate and even progressive!”
Earlier, it was the same message to a media gathering in Canberra: “The Nationals have said no to Net Zero … but we haven’t abandoned climate action and reducing emissions, we just believe we’ve got to do it in a better, fairer, cheaper way!”
The Commissar was half pleased but went on the check with leader if any Nat MPs actually wanted to commit the ultimate sin and leave the Paris agreement, which Littleproud of course, neatly sidestepped by assuring her that he understood that it was an international agreement.
Near the end of the interview the Commissar rolled out the lie that coal, gas and nuclear were “the most expensive forms of energy”, which Littleproud actually said was not true, adding “we need to work through the facts on this” further adding that it was obvious “we’re going to have to sweat out coal-fired assets longer and the Queensland government has acknowledge that”.
This, explained Littleproud, was the “technology agnostic approach”, which probably had the sidelined Barnaby Joyce rolling his eyes. Joyce had clashed with the Commissar earlier in the year when he dared breach the subject of stopping Net Zero.
Joyce released his own statement during the week, which presented a more realistic and honest appraisal of the effects of the Labor-Green push for “renewables”.
“The reality is that in an attempt to keep a domestic carbon dioxide reduction policy we are increasing the amount of intermittent power and maintaining the regulatory caveats in the vegetation on farmers’ private land,” said Joyce.
“This is putting up the price of electricity which is hurting the poorest, pushing many small businesses to the wall, de-industrialising Australia, devastating our landscape in regional Australia and weakening our capacity to defend ourselves as a nation.”
Joyce listed the following as the reality:
– Coal fired power is the cheapest 24/7 electricity source as experience has shown.
– As Australia increases the proportion of intermittent power there is a direct correlation with an increase in price.
– The proportion of business cost and the comparative price of power was vastly lower when Australia was based on coal fired power than today’s increased reliance on intermittent power.
– As we have increased our proportion of intermittent power we have had a direct correlation to the loss of heavy industry in Australia.
– Heavy industry has ample capacity to assess our power policy and if they believed electricity was going to become substantially cheaper, they would not be leaving, they would be coming.
– The comparative power of the Communist Chinese People’s Liberation Army is proportionally vastly more powerful than was Nazi Germany in 1939. Our defence capacity is comparatively vastly less.
– Heavy industry is essential to build up our defence capability.
– If there is an authentic support of the Paris Agreement then there must be support for the removal of electricity from coal to power from other sources, overwhelmingly intermittent power.
– The Paris Agreement calls for parties to “undertake rapid [emissions] reductions … so as to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removal by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century.” That is Net Zero by a different name on a later date.
– The social disharmony caused by the intrusion of intermittent power, (solar panels, wind towers and transmission lines) in regional areas has been massive. It has pitted family against family and community against community.
– The cost of living has increased in direct correlation to the increase in intermittent power. The most hurt by an increase in the cost of living are the poorer.
– The New England electorate is at the epicentre of hosting intermittent power precincts and it is envisaged it will cover over 30% of my electorate and that is outrageous.
“No policy that Australia undertakes without any global participation has any effect on the weather, the climate, temperatures, droughts, cyclones, frosts, floods, heavy dew, windy days or any of the other climatic things that are put up,” said Joyce.
“If I am to be truthful to my actual views, I believe we have vastly too much intermittent power on our electricity grid now and it should be proportionally reduced, not kept the same and certainly not increased.
“This would most likely require an immediate moratorium on the establishment of any more. This position is unacceptable to the policy position of any party in the House of Representatives.”
