For years now I have been talking about the folly of this Climate Change hoax that sees us allegedly reducing carbon dioxide emissions when China’s carbon dioxide emissions increase annually by more than our total.

There are no prizes for Albanese and Bowen strutting the world stage, telling the world what it should do and what Australia will do on climate change.

I might add, when you have a look at Myanmar and the Middle East and China and Taiwan, the Prime Minister told Nato leader last year that his government is, ‘Not afraid to stand up against threats of peace and freedom whether in Europe or the Indo-Pacific.’

Someone wrote that for him.

Today, the threats of Israeli peace, the only democracy in the Middle East, are met with an embarrassing silence.

The government is rubbing shoulders with international leaders and telling them, ‘It will be through Australia’s actions that you will see our resolve.’

I wonder if Albo tells these glad-handers that not one of our services, Navy, Air Force or Army has a strategic strike power…

Does he tell them that every one of our major defence programs is in disarray or scheduled to deliver capability, so far into the future, that it is in the realm of science-fiction?

Does he tell him that we have no submarine program at all.

And if we don’t lease a submarine and continue to pretend that we can make them in Adelaide, we won’t get one before 2040, at the earliest.

Last year, in Paris, our Prime Minister told 34 OECD Members, ‘I firmly believe we can solve the biggest challenges of our time while laying the groundwork for long-term economic security and shared prosperity.’

I said at the time that it was not punching above your weight but talking above your weight.

Just look at the mess we are in.

Albo told 34 OECD Members last year: ‘The fight against climate change must be at the heart of global cooperation; our goal is for Australia to be a renewable energy superpower.’

You might recall I suggested at the time that the Prime Ministerial plane head towards Amsterdam and start mouthing all this climate change nonsense.

At the time Germany, under a Green Coalition, was firing up moth balled coal fired generators because their dear old renewables couldn’t do the job.

At the time, the Dutch government was talking this same nonsense on carbon dioxide emissions.

When animals poo what hits the ground is full of nitrogen.

The Dutch government planned to cut greenhouse gas nitrogen by as much as 70 per cent and it was expecting farmers to achieve a 40 per cent drop in emissions that would require 30 per cent fewer cattle.

That nonsense is on the agenda here.

The Netherlands is the world’s second-largest agricultural exporter and their farmers were being targeted.

You may recall thousands of tractor-driving farmers were demonstrating in the town of Stroe, east of Amsterdam, arguing, simply, that the future of farmers was being destroyed.

It can’t be stated often enough that the generation of electricity only contributes 32 per cent towards greenhouse gas emissions.

Transport is 18 per cent and agriculture is responsible for 14 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions.

So the emissions for transport and agriculture are 32 per cent, about the same as for electricity generation.

So what happens to agriculture here, as in the Netherlands?

If you want to reduce emissions in line with this absurd Paris target, you will have to reduce the number of animals.

Get rid of 28 million beasts, dairy cows, beef cattle, pigs and sheep, because the Prime Minister told the 34 suited OECD Members, fighting climate change must be at the heart of global cooperation.

Prime Minister, tell our agriculture sector and our transport sector what that will mean, because if you can’t, change your story.

But back to the Netherlands and a bloke by the name of Geert Wilders.

This is a bloke who has been laughed at in Europe, famous for his campaigning against immigration, the European Union, Islam, and climate change, especially the nonsense about climate change and reducing herd numbers.

There was a general election on November 22 in the Netherlands, are you listening Albo, and Wilders is set to become the next Prime Minister.

I should point out that the Netherlands is not really Holland.

The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces.

Many people use Holland when talking about the Netherlands, but two provinces represent Holland; the 12 provinces are the Netherlands.

Wilders will now have to persuade potential Coalition partners to work with him.

He has been in the Parliament since 1988.

He was part of the Centrist VVD Party but he quit that and set up his own Party for Freedom, in 2006.

He has described Islam as a totalitarian ideology, his aversion fuelled by the assassination of the anti-Islam filmmaker, Theo van Gogh, in 2004; as well as the time he spent in a Kibbutz in Israel.

His election program called for a ban on the Quran, mosques, and all Islamic schools as well as on Islamic headscarves in government buildings.

His anit-Islam rhetoric has made him a target for extremists and he lives under 24-hour protection.

He says he will stop ‘the asylum tsunami’ which he has blamed for various social problems including the Netherlands’ housing shortage and high health costs.

He is critical of climate ‘scientists’ and believes that the government has spent too much on reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

He has advocated that coal and gas power stations remain open and proposes to halt the construction of solar parks and wind turbines; and he wants the Netherlands to withdraw from the UN’s Paris Climate Agreement.

This is all part of an encouraging alteration of Europe’s political landscape.
It is happening in Italy, Germany and France or, as Hungary’s Viktor Orban, has said, the winds of change are here.

Interestingly, Wilders is a firm backer of Israel and advocates shifting the Netherlands Embassy to Jerusalem which the Morrison government did and the Albanese government has revoked.

Following Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, Wilders argued, ‘Israel is fighting for its existence against the forces of hate, barbarism and terrorism.’

In a highly fractured electoral system, Wilders does not have enough seats to form a majority in the Parliament, without other parties, parties who have kept Wilders out of government for more than a decade.

But the scale of his victory will strengthen his hand in negotiations.

But what he has been saying about immigration, asylum seekers, Islam and, of course, climate change, carbon dioxide and the banning of coal, Wilders is the latest outward manifestation of the fact that the winds of change are here.

Way back in 1986, John Howard was Leader of the Opposition.

All this stuff was going on with Labor, but the then much despised John Howard, noting the political storm clouds ahead, said in July of 1986, ‘the times will suit me’.

Around the world it is happening now.

The times may well suit Peter Dutton.

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