Excellent Article George. I lived and worked around Alice springs many years ago and know the high regard the Price family is held in by the local Aboriginal community. Jacinta is the real deal and speaks from the heart
Well that was a week in politics I’d rather put behind me 🤔.
On Monday, the Nationals will hold a party room meeting in Canberra, and Senator Matt Canavan has announced he will be challenging David Littleproud for the leadership.
I will be voting for Matt Canavan to become Leader of The Nationals.
David and I entered Parliament together in 2016. Since then, he has done outstanding work—both as a minister in government and as leader of the Nationals. He has a strong list of achievements and is a capable and worthy leader. I consider David a friend, and this decision has not been easy. I have supported his leadership over the last term and, if he wins the ballot on Monday, he will continue to have my support.
However, I am supporting Matt Canavan because he is also an exceptional candidate for leadership—and because, like me, he recognises that the targets under the Paris Agreement are not in Australia’s national interest.
Labor’s plan for an 82% renewable energy grid is already proving to be unreliable, unaffordable, and incapable of supporting a modern industrial economy. When every segment of the energy market—generation, transmission, components, and even the consumers—must be propped up with taxpayer subsidies, and prices are still among the highest in the world, the failure of the government’s energy policy is plain to see.
That is why I have consistently advocated for Australia to play to its strengths: delivering low-cost, reliable, dispatchable power from our abundant natural resources. Australia should have the cheapest electricity in the world. Instead, Labor’s warped ideology allows our uranium and coal to be exported overseas—powering the economies of our competitors—while shaming their use here at home. It is sheer hypocrisy. Labor governments are happy to accept coal and uranium royalties to fund their budgets but refuse to let Australian families and businesses benefit from the same resources.
There are better, more responsible ways to secure our nation’s energy future than flattening agricultural land with solar panels, building intrusive wind farms, or carving up the countryside with high-voltage transmission lines.
This is not just a policy debate—it’s a matter of national strength and independence.
While Australia is refusing to build new coal-fired power stations, China is moving full steam ahead. In 2024 alone, it began construction on 95 gigawatts of coal-fired generation—more than our entire national energy system across all sources combined. Yet we remain told to shut ours down in the name of climate responsibility.
At the same time, Australian taxpayers are funding China’s so-called “climate adaptation” projects through our contributions to the United Nations Green Climate Fund. That same China recently sent warships into Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone, just 150 miles off the coast of Sydney, and conducted live-fire exercises without notice—forcing the diversion of 49 domestic flights. China will always act in its own interest, and I do not believe that includes reaching net zero emissions by 2060.
We are in an era of growing global instability—with war in Europe, Russian eyeing off military expansion into our region, and trade tensions escalating. It will not be the nations that most faithfully implement the socialist green-left’s doctrine that emerge stronger. It will be the most resilient and self-reliant.
Aspiring to make the world a better place is something we all support—but the Paris Agreement and net zero targets will not deliver that outcome.
I refuse to go down in history as someone who stayed silent while flawed and illogical policies were imposed—policies that future generations will view as examples of virtue-signalling at the expense of common sense.
Australia is a great nation—resourceful, principled, and capable of balancing environmental responsibility with the national interest. But as long as we are bound by the Paris Agreement and its targets, we are limiting our country’s ability to chart its own future.
I use an old Australian colloquialism when I say, It’s time to call ‘bullshit’ on the Paris Agreement and that is what Matt and I are doing.
Why can’t we look for another alternative to wind and solar Keep the coal low emission power going but surely in this day and age when cars are parking themselves, why are we stuck with these cumbersome and ugly windmills with a short life span and are left as just a mass of useless metal after a few years, not to mention as well all the lovely fertile land covered with ridiculous solar panels that catch alight or are damaged by hail. They are poor quality Chinese made as well. There are lots of good brains of young enthusiastic inventors whom I’m certain have already invented a better alternative source of energy.
Hold a competition NOW to capture these ideas before any more money is wasted like the ridiculous pumped water snowy scheme. Even housewives can see through all this smoke screening.
By the way, the Antarctic has increased its ice mass by 1.8 billion tons in just one year!
Now think about that! Meanwhile the ridiculous Bill Gates has convinced the scientists in the UK to load off dust into the atmosphere to stop global warning. This will lead to low food production and serious sickness for people and wildlife. I suppose Gates will have a gap in the dust over his enormous estates to let the sun through!
Yes, true, these leftists are very, incredibly demonic, see how demonized people act like, everything is very bad and they love it🤔 or only do it for fame and money, maybe they think they are free 😉 but they are not
She still jumped ship! She could have teamed up with Canavan. He IS a good bloke as far as I know.
And he's challenging that egocentric, vain, little man Littleproud on Monday!
So why didn't she do that?
There's no doubt Price is a threat, and conservative, and Australians are right behind her. But in my opinion she's just a turncoat.
I now think she's more about promoting her own self, and gaining power for her own personal standing, than sticking with what is morally and ethically right!
Excellent Article George. I lived and worked around Alice springs many years ago and know the high regard the Price family is held in by the local Aboriginal community. Jacinta is the real deal and speaks from the heart
On Canavan's FB page.
Llew O'Brien MP
STATEMENT ON LEADERSHIP OF THE NATIONALS
Well that was a week in politics I’d rather put behind me 🤔.
On Monday, the Nationals will hold a party room meeting in Canberra, and Senator Matt Canavan has announced he will be challenging David Littleproud for the leadership.
I will be voting for Matt Canavan to become Leader of The Nationals.
David and I entered Parliament together in 2016. Since then, he has done outstanding work—both as a minister in government and as leader of the Nationals. He has a strong list of achievements and is a capable and worthy leader. I consider David a friend, and this decision has not been easy. I have supported his leadership over the last term and, if he wins the ballot on Monday, he will continue to have my support.
However, I am supporting Matt Canavan because he is also an exceptional candidate for leadership—and because, like me, he recognises that the targets under the Paris Agreement are not in Australia’s national interest.
Labor’s plan for an 82% renewable energy grid is already proving to be unreliable, unaffordable, and incapable of supporting a modern industrial economy. When every segment of the energy market—generation, transmission, components, and even the consumers—must be propped up with taxpayer subsidies, and prices are still among the highest in the world, the failure of the government’s energy policy is plain to see.
That is why I have consistently advocated for Australia to play to its strengths: delivering low-cost, reliable, dispatchable power from our abundant natural resources. Australia should have the cheapest electricity in the world. Instead, Labor’s warped ideology allows our uranium and coal to be exported overseas—powering the economies of our competitors—while shaming their use here at home. It is sheer hypocrisy. Labor governments are happy to accept coal and uranium royalties to fund their budgets but refuse to let Australian families and businesses benefit from the same resources.
There are better, more responsible ways to secure our nation’s energy future than flattening agricultural land with solar panels, building intrusive wind farms, or carving up the countryside with high-voltage transmission lines.
This is not just a policy debate—it’s a matter of national strength and independence.
While Australia is refusing to build new coal-fired power stations, China is moving full steam ahead. In 2024 alone, it began construction on 95 gigawatts of coal-fired generation—more than our entire national energy system across all sources combined. Yet we remain told to shut ours down in the name of climate responsibility.
At the same time, Australian taxpayers are funding China’s so-called “climate adaptation” projects through our contributions to the United Nations Green Climate Fund. That same China recently sent warships into Australia’s Exclusive Economic Zone, just 150 miles off the coast of Sydney, and conducted live-fire exercises without notice—forcing the diversion of 49 domestic flights. China will always act in its own interest, and I do not believe that includes reaching net zero emissions by 2060.
We are in an era of growing global instability—with war in Europe, Russian eyeing off military expansion into our region, and trade tensions escalating. It will not be the nations that most faithfully implement the socialist green-left’s doctrine that emerge stronger. It will be the most resilient and self-reliant.
Aspiring to make the world a better place is something we all support—but the Paris Agreement and net zero targets will not deliver that outcome.
I refuse to go down in history as someone who stayed silent while flawed and illogical policies were imposed—policies that future generations will view as examples of virtue-signalling at the expense of common sense.
Australia is a great nation—resourceful, principled, and capable of balancing environmental responsibility with the national interest. But as long as we are bound by the Paris Agreement and its targets, we are limiting our country’s ability to chart its own future.
I use an old Australian colloquialism when I say, It’s time to call ‘bullshit’ on the Paris Agreement and that is what Matt and I are doing.
We’d all love to know who the hatchet men are in the Liberal Party. You must have a few clues, George?
Re the wind and solar power-
Why can’t we look for another alternative to wind and solar Keep the coal low emission power going but surely in this day and age when cars are parking themselves, why are we stuck with these cumbersome and ugly windmills with a short life span and are left as just a mass of useless metal after a few years, not to mention as well all the lovely fertile land covered with ridiculous solar panels that catch alight or are damaged by hail. They are poor quality Chinese made as well. There are lots of good brains of young enthusiastic inventors whom I’m certain have already invented a better alternative source of energy.
Hold a competition NOW to capture these ideas before any more money is wasted like the ridiculous pumped water snowy scheme. Even housewives can see through all this smoke screening.
By the way, the Antarctic has increased its ice mass by 1.8 billion tons in just one year!
Now think about that! Meanwhile the ridiculous Bill Gates has convinced the scientists in the UK to load off dust into the atmosphere to stop global warning. This will lead to low food production and serious sickness for people and wildlife. I suppose Gates will have a gap in the dust over his enormous estates to let the sun through!
She scares the Labour Party, just try to buy her book for the last couple of months from Amazon and Booktopia. My friends had no success either.
Yes, true, these leftists are very, incredibly demonic, see how demonized people act like, everything is very bad and they love it🤔 or only do it for fame and money, maybe they think they are free 😉 but they are not
But what about Price?
She still jumped ship! She could have teamed up with Canavan. He IS a good bloke as far as I know.
And he's challenging that egocentric, vain, little man Littleproud on Monday!
So why didn't she do that?
There's no doubt Price is a threat, and conservative, and Australians are right behind her. But in my opinion she's just a turncoat.
I now think she's more about promoting her own self, and gaining power for her own personal standing, than sticking with what is morally and ethically right!