MATT Kean, chairman of the Federal Government’s economic destruction unit aka the Climate Change Authority, is a compromised liar involved in a bank’s renewable energy investment company while loudly beating the climate baloney drum.
Kean, delivering the annual Talbott oration at the Australian Museum in Sydney, made the unbelievably ridiculous claim that “99% of Great Barrier Reef could be lost in next 20 years”. This is akin to predicting that Tasmania could disappear under the sea in the next 50 years.
And how might we prevent this happening? an ABC reporter asked. Oh, said the shiny-headed Kean, continue down the path of the transition to renewable energy.
Well of course Kean would tout renewable energy, because despite being a highly-paid Commonwealth public servant, he works for Wollemi Capital, a private green energy transition fund led by a former Macquarie banker.
Even the Nine Media reported on this conflict of interest last year, and Senator Gerard Rennick questioned Keane about it in a Senate committee hearing.
“Wollemi Capital make millions of dollars from investing in carbon credits – the same emissions offsets generated from carbon farming that the authority advises the government on and over which it influences the value,” the Financial Review reported.
“In estimates I asked Matt Kean why he thinks there isn’t a conflict of interest in being paid by both the taxpayers and renewable rent seekers Wollemi,” Rennick posted on X.
“He justifies his conflict by saying he disclosed it. That’s like saying I’m going to rob a bank but if I disclose it first I can go ahead and rob the bank. What’s even more amazing is how the media say nothing when it’s their mates engaging in this sort of behaviour.
“Kean and Chris Bowen should be referred to the NACC (National Anti-Corruption Commission) for this sort of behaviour. Then I ask him if he’s spoken with lobbyists.
“At first he says no but then goes on to say he’s spoken with government relations people of stakeholders. These people are glorified lobbyists who are employed full time by big corporations to constantly lobby the government for handouts.
“And finally I asked if he spoke with Michael Photios, one of the biggest lobbyists in Australia who once told me at the North Sydney Leagues club he could make me a politician if I wanted to become one due to his influence in the Liberal Party.
“Photios and Kean are both from the left faction in NSW, the faction that controls the Liberal Party and is responsible for it going woke. It’s a sad reflection on the two major parties that they cannot engage in ethical behaviour when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars,” says Rennick.
