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ABC, guardian and The Age all doing Labor’s bidding - and don’t fight the Millions Labor just gifted these journo’s.
Peanut Bowen’s Fiji Fantasy: Net Zero’s Last Stand on the Beach
While the rest of the world quietly rediscovers that cheap, reliable energy still comes from things that dig, drill and burn, Australia’s Climate Change Minister Chris “Peanut” Bowen remains locked in a heroic staring contest with reality — and reality is winning.
Bowen, elevated to the grand title of President of Negotiations for COP31, has poured taxpayer money into a pre-COP talkfest in Fiji this October. Up to $4.2 million has been earmarked for luxury resorts so foreign bureaucrats can discuss the climate crisis while gazing over turquoise water. The main event is in Turkey; Australia gets the side show and the bill.
World leaders appear to have checked the calendar, checked their energy bills, and RSVP’d with a polite no. Outside the Pacific, the big names are staying home. Peanut’s invitations are gathering dust while he insists the party is still on.
Meanwhile, actual power players are doing the unthinkable. Canada’s Mark Carney — once the global poster boy for climate finance — has effectively walked away from the rigid near-term net-zero targets he inherited. Oil and gas growth is back on the agenda. Pipelines are being discussed. Emissions will be higher in the short term, Carney admits, because energy security and affordability finally matter more than the last set of slideshows. Other governments are quietly making the same calculation.
Bowen’s response? Double down. Keep preaching the gospel of net zero while Australian households wrestle with power prices and energy hardship. Keep booking five-star rooms for a gathering fewer and fewer serious people want to attend. Keep pretending the tide of cheaper fossil fuels and pragmatic energy policy is somehow not happening.
The peanut gallery has been saying it for years. Now the world is saying it with its absence. Bowen’s COP presidency is not collapsing in a dramatic scandal. It is simply being ignored — the politest form of rejection imaginable.
Still the Minister peers into the middle distance, refusing to blink. Somewhere in Fiji, the cocktails will be cold, the resorts will be ready, and Peanut will still be explaining why everyone else is wrong.
Taxpayers will foot the bill either way.
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Liberal Civil War: When “Diversity Is Our Strength” Meets Reality
In a delightful display of Coalition unity, Liberal Party president Tony Abbott has declared that multiculturalism has failed and diversity is not our strength — only for Shadow Housing Minister Andrew Bragg to promptly disagree, insisting liberalism invented the whole thing and it’s all going splendidly.
Abbott points to the awkward fact that some arrivals appear less interested in the citizenship oath’s “democratic beliefs” and “laws I will uphold” than in parallel loyalties. Bragg counters that you can keep the kebabs and the cricket, so long as everyone signs up to the Australian team. Both are partially right, which is why the argument is so entertaining.
From a centrist-right vantage, the slogan “diversity is our strength” works only when newcomers join the existing culture rather than demand it dilute itself. Post-war migration succeeded because it was integration-first. The moment diversity becomes an end in itself, social cohesion frays and the centre-right looks like a circular firing squad.
Australia remains a successful immigrant nation — provided it stays Australian first. The rest is marketing.
#AustraliaFirst #DiversityIsNotStrength #LiberalCivilWar #TonyAbbott #AndrewBragg #KeepAustraliaAustralian
CSIRO’s Two-Faced Energy Gospel: Net Zero Salvation vs Fossil Fuel Reality
Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has perfected the art of talking out of both sides of its mouth on energy. On one hand, its glossy Towards Net Zero Mission and endless pathways modelling paint a heroic picture: decarbonise everything, electrify the economy, and march to net zero by 2050 with solar, wind, batteries and a sprinkle of gas firming. Renewables, they insist in every press release, remain the lowest-cost pathway to achieve those net-zero goals. Solar PV and onshore wind will supply 93 per cent of electricity by mid-century under the approved script.
Yet buried in the fine print of the latest GenCost 2025–26 report is a less convenient truth. A system leaning harder on new black coal plants and more gas could deliver electricity at roughly $124/MWh by 2050 — against $131/MWh for the net-zero-compliant renewables-heavy grid. That is the headline 5 per cent gap. CSIRO dutifully notes that non-renewable options may look competitive on pure generation costs but would force more expensive abatement elsewhere in the economy to hit net zero.
The difference in messaging is deliberate. Headlines and missions sell the constrained, policy-aligned solution as “cheapest.” The data quietly admits the unconstrained fossil alternative is cheaper for electrons alone. One narrative serves government targets and the green industrial complex; the other acknowledges physics and engineering without the ideological filter.
This matters because the modelled gap is only the beginning. Once transmission, massive firming, overbuild, intermittency penalties and the full economy-wide costs of forcing every sector to net zero are included, the premium becomes massively higher. Households and industry already feel it in bills and reliability. Energy policy becomes theology rather than economics. CSIRO’s dual messaging reveals the real choice: accept substantially higher system costs to pursue net zero, or prioritise cheapest reliable electrons and forgo the climate target. Pretending the two are identical is neither science nor journalism. It is marketing.
#CSIRO #GenCost #NetZero #EnergyTruth #AustraliaFirst #FossilFuels #PowerBills #ClimatePolicy #RenewablesReality #FactsOverSpin #CheapEnergy #OneNation #EnergyCrisis
