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The Australian Right's big mistake : Comments
By Paul Collits, published 1/7/2020Australia's battle of ideas - the culture war - seems lost, to the forces of progressive liberalism. Those who would fight this battle seem preoccupied with getting the Liberal party into office, and keeping it there.
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Ironically, the bumbling Malcolm Turnbull would never have become PM, had it not been for Tony Abbott succeeding him as opposition leader and then leading the Coalition to Government, only to be stabbed in the back by the envious, conceited Malcolm who then set about implementing his progressive agenda with the unquestioning support of ‘genuine leftist’ colleagues.
The national interest was poorly served by the leftist Turnbull-led coalition government. Besides the disastrous new submarine program decision:
. it ratified the Green-left-politicised Paris Climate Agreement, an accord that was unjustified on both scientific and economic grounds. Local implementation entailed more subsidisation of high-cost, unreliable, weather-dependent, renewable power, so as to discourage new investment in reliable, low-cost, coal-fired baseload power. Unsurprisingly, there is over-investment in intermittent renewable energy, that has forced up power prices to around the developed world’s highest, causing business disinvestment and consequent job losses;
. it decided to build the high-risk, economically-unjustified Snowy 2 pumped water scheme at the exorbitant cost of $12billion, an outlay for which four or five new HELE coal-fired power stations could have been built instead;
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