Senator Matt Canavan announced over the weekend:

This afternoon [June 14] the NSW Nationals Party conference voted to abandon the commitment to Net Zero and to advocate for the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.

People are sick and tired of Australians having to pay more for food, power, and transport in a resource-rich country that should have the cheapest food and energy prices in the world.

Net Zero has done nothing but to push up the price of everything. It has done ZERO for the environment because other countries are ignoring their commitments.

If we keep pursuing Net Zero, we will just lose more Australian jobs to countries that are treating us like mugs.

It’s time for the Australian government to put Australians first.

If you think that sort of post looks familiar, it’s because Liberal Senator Alex Antic put up a post on May 31 that read:

Today, the governing body of the South Australian Liberal Party voted to call upon the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party to rescind their policy of Net Zero by 2050. It’s time to scrap Net Zero and Save Australia!

Although it is quite fun to contrast this with Michael McCormack’s Facebook post from the same NSW Nationals’ State Conference.

It is always a privilege to hear directly from our party members in regional Australia about the issues affecting country communities.

Robust debate is always important, and that’s how we in the Nationals develop the best solutions and policies for the issues our constituents face.

It was clear from the attendees, many of the issues which affect the Riverina are also affecting other regional areas.

Of note, the NSW Nationals has affirmed its position against the overdevelopment of wind and solar factories.

Which is a convoluted way of avoiding Net Zero’s demise.

Net Zero is fading, particularly as the rest of the world uses carbon-neutral interchangeably with nuclear. Indeed, it is likely that the rise of AI will very quietly, and probably without an official announcement, force a transition from renewable energy to reliable energy.

Not for Australia, of course. We’re about half a century behind.

The only way our stubborn political class will give up its addiction to renewable energy is if China discontinues the product and the Greens realise candles can’t power their iPhone.

Senator Canavan has been one of the loudest and most diligent voices of reason when it comes to energy.

Instead of sugar-coating the rhetoric in election slogans and UN dogma, he prefers to tell the truth about Net Zero.

‘I have been against Net Zero from the get go because it is unachievable, futile, and will cost a fortune.’

There is certainly not enough said about the futility of a technology with a 15-year lifespan in a country that takes 10 years to complete a road. It is impossible to build a permanent renewable grid when the grid is in a constant state of collapse.

Renewables are effectively a boat falling apart in the middle of the ocean, patched up with bits of paper that soften and fall away at an accelerated rate. Everyone else is cruising around in nuclear-powered ships.

Why persist?

Aside from the political belief that the glorious ship makes them popular with the electorate.

‘Thanks to Net Zero, Australia can no longer feed itself for the first time since the Early Settlers. We now have to import fertiliser from China and the Middle East. Without fertiliser we cannot grow the food we need in the often arid Australian climate.’

Don’t worry, Senator, we can be sure that our loss of food production will be blamed on ‘climate change’ and not Net Zero policy.

It’s an easy switch to make.

Remember how the press allowed water shortages in Sydney to be blamed on climate change and not the doubling of population without proper expansions to the water supply?

‘We never conducted a full cost-benefit analysis of adopting Net Zero, but New Zealand did. Their study found that Net Zero would reduce the size of the New Zealand economy by 10 to 20 per cent and employment would fall by 2 to 4 per cent.’

It’s interesting… While scrolling through the dreadful history of the Morrison-era climate obsession, there are endless announcements about schemes and projects that were designed to artificially create jobs in the ‘green’ sector to soften the political blow of jobs falling out of mining, energy, and agriculture.

Have any of these ‘green’ jobs materialised?

The government certainly doesn’t keep a register of promises and achievements (considering it’s our money and government claims to care about transparency, perhaps they should be forced to). The best we can do is Google a few of these projects and see what sort of state they are in.

Every time you do, these projects are either over-cost, cancelled, subject to controversy, or completed with a fraction of the promised jobs.

The true cost of this transition has remained hidden because nowhere on the government website is there an accurate total of money being spent. Either they do not want anyone to know how expensive this is, or (more likely) the Treasury has lost count of its dollars and cents.

‘When Scott Morrison was Prime Minister, the Nationals Party was bullied and bribed into adopting Net Zero. Net Zero has not worked for Australia and it has not even worked politically for us.’

It is a stunning admission about the abuse of the Coalition partnership by the arrogant Liberals chasing city seats.

They might have kept those rich Blue Ribbon seats if it were not for MPs trying to look ‘cool’ hanging off the apocalypse bandwagon, claiming the world was going to end and that they would save panicky voters ‘slower’ and more ‘cheaply’ than the Teals.

The Liberals must have looked like Temu handbags being sold on the footpath outside a Prada store.

Instead, those Liberal MPs should have exposed the Teals as lobbyists for energy corporations trying to give themselves policy advantages by manipulating public fear. The weaponisation of children, particularly of upper and middle class children in elite private schools, has been the biggest and most ignored underhanded tactic. Parents paid tens of thousands of dollars to have the education system brainwash their children and then use the faux tears of those children as a political advantage.

And no one wants to write about it because they don’t want to admit that they allowed their children to be raised by wolves.

Emotionally, we will never get out of this. People are too embarrassed to admit they were conned and they will hang onto the doomsday climate cult just as they cling onto the ‘it was worth it’ lie of the Covid era.

Even poverty is insufficient to shake the propaganda off our system. Teal voters in particular seem quite happy for their poor neighbours to shiver without power while the Greens are demanding that ‘rich people’ pay for everyone’s transition into a failed energy system.

No. Our salvation will come from the hard, unmoveable wall of engineering reality.

Blackouts. Shortfalls. The collapse of industry. Things that cannot be solved with a slogan or press conference.

You will hear a lot of ‘we didn’t knows’ and rambling about ‘hindsight’.

When that day comes, and it is rapidly approaching, there will only be a handful of politicians in a position to lead Australia out of the Dark Ages and those individuals should be brought to the front, not left on the backbenches.

Because we did know. We knew exactly what Net Zero was from the start.