How much does it cost to keep the leader of a minor, nature-loving, tree-hugging political party happy? Roughly $1 million, according to reports from the Department of Finance.

Look upon the true face of the Greens, the party that wants you to ‘eat the rich’ and hate billionaires – unless they happen to be renewable energy billionaires, Net Zero mining billionaires, Silicon Valley billionaires, or globalist billionaires.

The astonishing bill footed by the taxpayer shows that the Greens know how to lap up the ‘high life’ instead of toiling in the ‘you will own nothing’ trenches their policies prepare for the rest of us.

When Adam Bandt’s expenses were released, it wasn’t so much the million dollars that set voters against him, it was the rank hypocrisy.

The Greens’ policy platform is built on a mixture of green communism, fringe globalism, and climate hysteria which depicts the world tilting on a knife edge of climate oblivion.

Breathing is contributing to our doom. Those wicked cows in those evil green fields are ushering forth the hellfire. Every business and each person is soon to be assigned a carbon score as part of a wider carbon accounting psychosis. This death cult propaganda is what shapes their policies, but apparently not their actions.

Would a leader who has spent his political career convincing the public that carbon emissions are causing the apocalypse set foot on a plane, let alone a private jet?

Not if he genuinely believed the campaign message. He would use Zoom.

Bandt’s indulgence in fossil fuel-hungry transport is an admission as transparent as the philanthropists and CEOs who claim the waters are rising and then build their sprawling mansions on low-lying Pacific islands.

If we were to offer the most generous reading of Bandt’s behaviour, we could liken him to the smoker, addicted to the thing he knows will kill him while pleading with others not to follow his lead. If so, he is not the only addict in Parliament. Airbus Albo and Boeing Bowen have carbon footprints the size of small towns. Albanese spent somewhere around five and a half million flying in his first year.

Bandt handed taxpayers a $23,000 bill for private jets used during the election period. A previous article in the Daily Mail alleges that his preference, when downgraded to commercial air travel, is to fly business class which a World Bank study says emits ‘three times as much carbon as economy’.

Bandt’s spending spree is even more egregious in the middle of a cost of living crisis brought on by two of the Greens’ favourite political topics – Covid hysteria (and its free money), and renewable energy.

He also claimed $12,000 for a petrol allowance, which is odd, given his party considers petrol cars to be planet-murdering devices and there are plenty of virtuous EVs on offer. Could it be that these are less convenient? This is in addition to another $29,000 on other transport, including taxis.

Around the same time Bandt was incurring these fossil fuel expenses, he was called out for encouraging people to join civil disobedience climate protests.

‘[Climate activism is the like the] types of civil disobedience that have been so crucial throughout history in securing change, from ending slavery to gaining women’s suffrage, from workers’ rights to civil rights.’

Alright, Bandt, we will play along. If the climate change cause is akin to fighting slavery, then your private jet bill is no better than owning slaves. It reminds us of Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek launching a war on fast fashion whilst draped in an expensive and unnecessary wardrobe.

‘Now we need to embrace the importance of protest and civil disobedience. We must come together and fight back.’

Has Bandt considered leading by example and catching the train?

‘Law is often complex, but the morality is simple.’

Hypocrisy is simple too. It’s easy enough to pretend to lead a carbon neutral lifestyle from a carefully managed media campaign, on a huge salary, while being chauffeured around on the public dime. Ordinary Australians – like Stalin’s masses – are forced to live the reality of politicians’ virtue. A life of poverty, peasantry, and misery.

When is Bandt going to decarbonise himself, instead of splashing $15,000 on a private plane from Brisbane to Canberra? Was that necessary? Of course not. What about the $57,000 spent on domestic flights, or the $372,000 he spent flying his staff around?

The Greens are always keen to raise taxes, no doubt because Australia needs a bigger Treasury to pay for their travel expenses…

For a man paid $314,000 a year, his $963,166 is not only lavish – it’s obscene.

And for those who say, ‘Oh well, politicians cost money, they have to travel.’ That may be a defence in the past, or for a political leader who does not engage in the apocalyptic climate cult, but it is not sufficient for the leader of a party who is agitating to change Australian policy to fit the narrative that carbon emissions will imminently destroy the world.

Either Bandt believes in Climate Doom, and he should start walking, or the Greens’ policies are nothing more than fear-mongering, attention-seeking garbage.