One Nation Leader, Pauline Hanson, spoke at the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables on the lawn in front of Parliament House in Canberra.

She did so to a roar of cheers. The crowd had been standing there agitating for hours, listening to speeches from political figures, commentators, and Australians whose lives are being ruined by the inner-city delusion of ‘green energy’.

Out of sight, out of mind, and cold of heart. That is how the renewable energy conversation has been conducted.

That debate is not over.

Renewable energy is facing failure on a number of fronts, not least of which is merit. Engineers and energy regulators – even those who were once enthusiastic about solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries – are showing signs of nervousness. The lights are flickering. The costs are mounting. And globally, raw materials are running short.

But the real disaster is public opinion. The ‘not in my backyard’ philosophy, originally written off as few disgruntled farmers and ‘privileged’ coastal tourist communities, has transitioned into one almighty public vibe shouting, ‘Not in our country!’

We understand that many Australians were caught up in the romantic marketing slogans of renewable energy. They believed the propaganda of endless rainforests, pristine coastal vistas, and lush fields. Those Australians no longer believe in Labor’s lies. Not now that they have seen the reality on their doorstep. Chris Bowen’s vision for a Net Zero Australia has hacked the country apart. Private property? There is no such thing. Protected wilderness? Not anymore.

Net Zero propaganda is an abuse of the public’s good faith and a manipulation of our natural inclination to care for the land. If you ask someone if they want to save the world, of course they will say yes. Those people have been conned into a wasteful and damaging future by a political class that cares more about a pat on the back from the United Nations than it does about preserving the beauty of the Australian landscape and the security of our energy independence.

At the last election, no one said Net Zero would involve bulldozing rainforests, cluttering our ocean views, or draping power lines between thousands of kilometres of transmission towers. No one told farmers their sheep would be knocking their heads on solar panels, that koalas would be bludgeoned to death if they got in the way of wind farms, or that people would be driven mad by the relentless noise coming from sky-scraper-sized turbines.

Renewables are turning into a national nightmare, and Bowen has a growing list of court cases to prove it. He also has a rally on the front lawn of Parliament, demanding answers.

‘Why don’t I keep the bastards honest? Because I want to get rid of the bastards,’ said Ms Hanson. The crowd cheered again. If the election was run today, Labor would be in trouble.

Senator Hanson makes a good point. Like politicians, there are some ideas beyond redemption, and the Net Zero industry is chief among them.

She called for the political class to be held to account while Parliament lingered in the background – a physical manifestation of politics sitting atop its mound like some concrete crown on a monstrous socialist bureaucracy.

‘We have been led like fools to the slaughter because you trusted politicians to do the right thing by you…’

As Ms Hanson said during her speech, as a Senator, I am hungry to debate the Greens on the issue of Net Zero, but they did not have the stomach to take a short stroll across the Canberra lawn to defend wind turbines and solar panels. The Greens will not meet me in the battle of ideas, let alone face the crowd and answer questions about the Utopian technology that is meant to save the world. Can you imagine the proud creator of any other product refusing to meet their customers? Unless, of course, those customers were angry about a faulty, dangerous product.

Why are the Greens hiding?

Why aren’t they facing the crowds?

This country is being carved up by foreign corporations and stitched back together by the Canberra bureaucrats whose fascist duplicity can be seen in the ugly power-lines draped from paddock-to-paddock.

There will be more rallies like this. More protests. More court cases. More blockades, town meetings, public forums, and damning environmental reports.

One Nation will not stop fighting to rid the nation of renewables.

And if the lights go out, we’ll fight in the dark.

We won’t stop until this madness ends.