Donald Trump seems to be the only politician who understands tariffs.

In Australia, if we continue importing Chinese goods duty-free, we will never have a manufacturing sector of our own. Free trade is killing us, and to cover up that fact, we are importing more people to do non-productive jobs. Skills are not needed in a country that makes nothing much.

Four pages of economic gobbledygook are of no use to ordinary Australians who know bloody well what is happening to them.

What should be foremost in our minds is that we no longer have the cheap and reliable energy to make things that we used to have before the myths and lies spread by Canberra. The non-fossil fuel future is dead in the water. For all the technological optimism surrounding the energy transition, the basic system constraint remains the same as in 2007.

And, we will not have the required electricity to run Artificial Intelligence, as long as we have an ‘artificial’ government in Canberra.