'A couple of interesting facts from the Eden-Monaro by-election'

Oh and the Greens down 3% on the 'climate change' election Paul. What a joke.

runner, did you also note there are four times as many dope smokers than there are Bible Bashers in Eden-Monaro. The new big noise party according to Paul Collits Australian Federation Party score a whopping 179 votes, 0.19% wow! Something Corny Banana and his Australian Conservatives could only dream of.

well, that party is sure to get more votes with support like this OLO piece.

As if.

Not to be outdone, the NSW Coalition Government adopted and implemented Green-left policies. These included:

. closing down the greyhound racing industry (subsequently repealed on public outcry);

. promoting investment in intermittent, high-cost renewable energy generation at the expense of reliable, low-cost coal-fired baseload power, thus forcing up electricity prices substantially and expediting NSW industry disinvestment and consequent job losses. NSW’s abundant high-quality coal reserves were conveniently overlooked;

. stopping development of NSW natural gas reserves, resulting in Sydney-gate gas prices tripling since 2014-15;

. adopting the Green-left-politicised net zero emissions by 2050 climate policy, that is unjustified on both scientific and economic grounds. ( “Net-zero emissions means NSW emissions will be balanced by carbon storage. The more emissions are reduced, the less sequestration is needed to achieve net-zero.” https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Climate-change/achieving-net-zero-emissions-by-2050-fact-sheet-160604.pdf)

. disallowing hazard reduction burning in national parks and crown land, and on bordering private land holdings, thereby ensuring catastrophic destruction of flora, fauna and property in the 2019-20 NSW bushfires. Leftists displayed their gullibility by blaming man-made climate change;

. decriminalising the murdering of unborn babies up to birth;

. and reducing traffic fines by half for those on welfare

Saltpetre: “ Bring out the Liberal 'lefties' masquerading in the Morrison government, and let's see them in the clear light of day. Do so, or take a hike, please.”

The Liberals who support/promote Green-left climate change policies may be regarded as ‘lefties’. These include Simon Birmingham and Paul Fletcher. Tim Wilson, Dave Sharma, Jason Falinski, Katie Allen, Angie Bell and Trent Zimmerman were reported by The Guardian to be among the Liberal MPs to sign up to the Parliamentary Friends of Climate Action group.

Trent Zimmerman, Matt Kean and Don Harwin are understood to be senior members of the NSW Liberal Left

Australia has loaded over $15 billion a year of costs onto the electricity consumers and taxpayers to subsidise renewables, according to Alan Moran’s latest articles in Quadrant (https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/opinion-post/on-the-road-to-ruin-for-no-good-reason/), The Spectator (https://www.spectator.com.au/2020/07/do-we-want-to-follow-st-jacinda-and-price-our-industry-out-of-existence/) and Catallaxy Files. He states:

“This has done nothing to advance renewables to the competitiveness long forecast for them. Indeed, every new demonstration of the failure of wind and solar brings fresh policy proposals for their further subsidies. … we now have new “Renewable Energy Zones” with wasteful spending on transmission to permit profitable operations of poor quality, low energy density.

Ministers have demonstrated an utter inability to understand the effects of such actions on competitive unsubsidised businesses and lack awareness about the effects distortions bring to the economy at large. …

Very few politicians understand the issues and those in the Coalition: Craig Kelly and Matt Canavan, are sidelined.

The ALP and Turnbull had no compunction against stacking their advisory agencies with green activists. But even the non-Turnbull Liberals persist in appointing starry-eyed green zealots as advisers to key positions like Treasury, where the top three officials are veteran climate change warriors. …

Staggering on with present policies, aggravated by the COVID political measures, means the slow-motion economic train wreck caused by energy policies will, at best, continue. More likely we will see our economic fortunes rapidly deteriorate with announcements of closures of energy intensive businesses, which are among our most productive.

It is very difficult for a nation to devise policies that destroy its economy but Australia is succeeding.