Pouring money down the drain, rampaging through farms, killing off koalas, replacing cheap and dependable electricity with expensive and unreliable substitutes – the Albanese-Bowen climate plan has been the worst.

As the perceptive warned from the beginning, this folly was a suicide note for the Australian nation.

If there is one reason to vote out the Albanese government – and there are many – this is it.

Among several crucial effects in Australia, the Trump landslide means that for Albanese and Bowen, the jig is up, not only on climate but on everything that is woke.

What is assured is that Trump will indeed make America great again and that the allies, including Australia, will be lifted up.

That this was the likely, or at least the possible, consequence of a Trump return, and that no other potential candidate was offering this, curiously escaped the imagination of much of the Australian establishment.

Take the national newspaper which tends to lead the media on this question.

The theme of the Australian’s editorials never rose above declaring the election a dismal choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

At least one staff opinion piece was brutally scathing, the equivalent of the foolish and unreasonable things that Kevin Rudd, our Australian ambassador, is now furiously trying to cover up.

Since his election, it is increasingly accepted that the Trump presidency will have a significant and beneficial effect on the West.

What should be a crucial question in the coming Australian election is who would work best with the Trump administration.

For so many reasons, it is obvious, glaringly obvious, that a Dutton government would function far better than the Albanese government.

What Trump does and what he expects of allies will be central to the relationship.

It was long obvious that Trump has the common sense to realise and the strength not to follow the fashionable but unproven theory about man-made global warming.

Consequently, any ‘net zero’ target is a serious mistake.

Even if the theory were true, even if the only solution were to reduce those emissions, a solution some believers reject, and even if a country were to be as foolish as Australia and followed the Bowen plan of bankrupting the country while enriching the communists by relying on so-called ‘renewables’ and batteries, the climate would not be changed one degree as a consequence.

The fact is, whatever Australia does, our annual CO2 emissions are too small to be relevant, at present a mere 1.08 per cent.

The top four – China, US, India and Russia – represent 56 per cent, and their emissions are growing significantly .

With President Trump already giving notice of withdrawal, not one is committed to net zero.

Even before that, Australia’s extreme, unbelievably expensive Bowen plan was already obviously reckless, wasteful, and pointless.

No doubt realising that President Trump’s election would expose the futility of the Bowen plan, Albanese’s Climate Czar, former NSW Liberal treasurer Matt Kean, is making a last-ditch but futile stand.

He claimed recently in the Sydney Morning Herald that Australia is responsible for over four times our actual emissions.

He did this by double-counting the emissions of China and other countries to whom we sell coal and other minerals which they burn.

In fact, as the highly qualified scientist Ian Plimer points out, when it comes to CO2, Australia does the world’s heavy lifting; our vast farms and forests sequester or absorb five times more CO2 than we emit.

If we go nuclear, a source of power which should never have been made illegal, our emissions will fall even further.

With Trump now President, Albanese has no excuse. The jig is up. This madness should stop today.

Albanese and Bowen must stop pouring billions down the drain.

If not, the next Coalition government – hopefully a Dutton government– should establish a royal commission to inquire into what is a clear breach of their financial duties to the nation.

The terms should investigate the potential for personal liability, and the power and propriety of imposing it retrospectively.

Meanwhile, the Coalition is proposing the nuclearisation of the grid.

Unlike the Albanese-Biden madness, this is not adding insanely and unnecessarily unreliable elements to the electricity infrastructure in this vast country.

Most of our electricity stations are old and must be renewed.

The nuclear ban was always ridiculous and should be removed.

In addition to President Trump’s example to us concerning electric power, he will be such an excellent president that he will, by example, show us how to stop the long substitution of indoctrination for education and the adoption of very foolish and dangerous woke ideas the far left constantly propose.

By lowering tax and regulatory burdens, he will also show us how to achieve the full potential of this great country.

He will probably be firm on two things, defence and antisemitism , thus reminding us that we remain part of an empire.

And as the distinguished economist Deepak Lal wrote in his book In Praise of Empires, empires have been natural throughout history.

We have lived in the best by far, the British first and then the American.

As the prominent French intellectual Raymond Aron, author of The Imperial Republic observed, in the 20th century Europeans, the man in the street and the statesman alike, ‘feared American isolationism more than American imperialism.’

Trump will reasonably expect that we contribute properly and honourably to our defence, removing wokedom from the forces as Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth proposes, and that we remove from the nation the vile bacillus of antisemitism.

The advent of Trump and the fact that he is so right to lead the West will definitely have an impact on our election. Trump has no doubt already seen through Albanese as he did Trudeau. It is clear that, after the election, a Dutton government would be best suited to work with Trump in the interests of Australia and the West.