Tales of Woe from a Once Great Land

Climate zealotry has completely trumped commonsense with the passing of new laws allowing the government to set price caps on coal and gas.

We have a federal government determined to replace what works with what does not work

In other words, we will replace an electricity grid that had base load power supplied by plentiful, reliable and cheap gas and coal with an electricity grid that is entirely dependent upon intermittent weather.

But it’s worse than that. The government is determined to destroy the gas and coal industry, burning every bridge behind them as they march relentlessly toward energy shortages and blackouts in the name of Net Zero.

By restricting the price of gas the government will restrict supply and future investment into more supply.

The large gas companies will limit supply to maintain pricing.

This is 101 supply and demand.

The government can’t force producers to sell energy at a reduced price.

It’s a classic case of Dumb and Dumber. But the Dumbest? That’s Australia for voting these clowns into office.

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There’s good news and there’s bad news from the Victorian state election.

Let’s begin with the good news.

Fiona Patten, from the hilariously named Reason Party, failed in her bid to win a third term in the Upper House.

Boo-hoo.

Patten used her eight years in Parliament to ban people (namely Christians) from communicating anything about abortion within 150m of an abortion clinic; to legalise drug injecting rooms, and to legalise state assisted suicide.

Good riddance.

There’s more good news.

Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick is also gone. The LBGTQ activist will not be missed, except by those who want to see trans ideology pushed at every turn.

Now the bad news.

The ALP won 15 of the 40 Upper House seats which means they need six votes to be able to pass legislation.

They will be able to count on the 4 Greens - giving them 19 votes.

If they promise to ban duck shooting they will be able to count on the support of Animal Justice Party’s Georgie Purcell - giving them 20 votes.

But they will need one more vote for a majority.

Hmmmm. Where will they find that vital last vote?

It won’t come from the Liberals, the Nationals or from One Nation.

So where does Dan Andrews go looking for that all important extra vote he needs to continue merrily on his progressive march?

Enter the two newly elected Legalise Cannabis MPs!

Expect the Devil’s Lettuce to be legalised in Victoria within the next four years.

And why not?

With massive debt, terrible roads, an ailing health system and government fingers poking every area of your life and sporting codes preaching at you every time you seek solace from politics, what’s left but to spend your days on the choof?

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Much has been made of the decline in Christianity, but what of the decline in that other great religion - union membership?

Forty one per cent of Australian workers were union members in 1992. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that number is now at 12.5 per cent.

Former Australian Council of Trade Unions assistant secretary Tim Lyons told The Age newspaper “dire is way too weak an adjective” for the numbers and “existential crisis barely covers it”.

I can’t imagine why people would abandon union membership after unions stood so bravely for people’s rights during the pandemic inspired vaccine mandates …

(That last sentence was thick with sarcasm for those who missed it)

Anyway, it’s extraordinary the influence that 12.5 per cent of workers has over Labor Party policy.

Next time someone tells you that Christians now represent less than half the population and therefore they should shut up and not so much as speak about policy, remind them that the union movement represents just 12 per cent of the working population and yet determines policy!

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The public may be allowed to climb Mount Warning after all, provided by pay an Indigenous person to guide them along the walking trial.

The mountain, from which you get the first glimpse of sunrise in Australia, has been closed to walkers because local Indigenous people said it was sacred and couldn’t be walked on.

Before superstition was allowed to determine which Australians were permitted to walk where, the mountain trail attracted 100,000 visitors annually.

But the NSW Liberal Government has given control of the Mt Warning to an Aboriginal consulting group, who have banned public access, and even claimed that females going on the land would make people sick.

Follow the science!

Incidentally, the Aboriginal group has also asked the government to ban anyone using photos of the mountain for business or tourism purposes. They don’t just own the mountain, they own the image of the mountain.

Anyway, there is now talk that walkers might be allowed to trek up the mountain provided they are accompanied by a person of the right ethnicity.

And for a small fee, of course!

What a grift the whole race issue has become in this country.

Tweed Heads Mayor Chris Cherry told The Courier-Mail this would be a way people would enjoy their own country “in a respectful way”.

Pffft.

Being charged money because your not the right ethnicity to access your own national park is hardly a way to engender respect.

Another council member, Geoff Provest said …

“I like the idea of charging people to go up there, having Indigenous rangers leading hikes.”

Cute.

I rather like the idea of being allowed to go where I want in my own country without reference to my skin colour. But that’s just my Martin Luther King coming out.

So well done to the indigenous people of that region on creating further segregation, alienation and bitterness. This isn’t reconciliation, it’s manifest stupidity.

Mount Warning is not a thing to be owned. It’s Australian and all Australians should be able to enjoy it, no matter their heritage or history or connection.