To enormous fanfare, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price announced on Facebook that the Country Liberal Party Central Council had decided to scrap its support for Net Zero and wants to see Australia withdraw from the Paris Agreement.

While it’s important to steward our country and environment well, that should not come at the cost of our economy and way of life.

Over the weekend, the Country Liberal Party Central Council passed two important motions:

1. Support abandoning the net zero emissions target; and
2. Support withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.

The current impact of these policies does not justify their burden on everyday Aussies, and it’s high time we did something about it!

Senator Price has previously said that Net Zero 2050 targets are only possible with the inclusion of nuclear energy, something Labor, the Greens, and Teals refuse to allow.

‘It’s impossible, and it hasn’t been done anywhere in the world.’

And she is right. Unless you’re perching on the side of Niagara Falls, nuclear energy is the only long-term strategy for zero-carbon energy (if that’s your goal).

That the ‘environmental’ parties of our government dismiss nuclear out of hand betrays all of them as entirely unserious about ‘climate change’ and completely devoted to the cult of renewable hand-outs.

Given this is the third or fourth public rejection of Net Zero by a Coalition group, I went to check the social media accounts of our Shadow Cabinet to see what they thought about the evolution of policy.

There was nothing.

Most of their social accounts haven’t been touched since the election and those that have are either re-posting official press releases or making extremely safe (and dull) comments about standard positions (such as, taxing fictional money is wrong).

The last post on X from the official Liberal Party account is a snap from Peter Dutton’s concession speech with Thank you written across it. The Nationals’ last post is from April 24.

David Crisafulli and his LNP have the best social media game in town. They also managed to win an election. I wonder if these things are related?

If any Coalition members happen to be reading, please understand…

In the under-40 demographic, the future of your electoral success, almost none of them are reading MSM papers, watching television, or listening to radio. If they are under 25 they likely don’t own a computer let alone a TV. Everything is on their phones. If you are a minister or a senator and you are not posting on social media, you are invisible and your opinion in the global conversation is entirely irrelevant.

(Which is why banning social media for young people was such a bad idea. Their first experience with politicians is going to be a negative and their instinct will be to rebel. Rebel to what?)

Not only are the Shadow Cabinet absent from social media, they are thin on the ground when it comes to the press.

I have had writers complain that Labor has complete freedom in the national conversation. That Albanese and his goons can say anything they like and it goes unchallenged by an absentee Opposition.

And they are right.

So many times in recent weeks there has been no right of reply because no reply was offered.

Existential crisis or not, the Coalition are still paid by the public to oppose.

In this case, the rejection of Net Zero by so many of their party groups would surely be worth some sort of public acknowledgement.

Senator Price, Senator Canavan, and Senator Antic are out doing their jobs by listening to their voters and putting forward policy positions that reflect the needs of their community. For this, they are rewarded by a conservative public desperate for leaders they can respect.

Alas, these individuals are a minority and their progress is yet to be backed up by the more powerful (in name, at least) members of the Coalition.

This was going to be a longer article but in the absence of content from the LNP … this is it.