There is one thing, no, do two: in which we can all agree on energy policy.
First, sensible and rational people everywhere agree that having the cleanest possible energy combination and reliable base load power is essential and important.
The second thing is that most of us don’t want to see our parents and grandparents; those in our community who are the most vulnerable and marginalized, forced into a form of energy policy simply to satiate the senseless ideological fixations of climate-eaters.
However, this is exactly what will happen if the Greens get it.
Greens leader Adam Bandt has once again shown that he is a kind of tyrant: an absolutist who, while leading a party that most Australians reject at the polls, keeps the nation rescued with crazy demands on the climate policy.
It’s not just the demand that the government make its 43 percent emission reduction target for 2030 on the floor, not the ceiling.
It’s not just the hysterical call for no more new coal or gas projects.
No, the real wolf of the henhouse is exposed in the demand of the Greens that no future government has the capacity through legislation to relax this 43% target.
Adam Bandt and the Greens want to legislate the rights of future governments to adapt to possible changing circumstances, but this is just the beginning.
They want to legislate our right – the rights of Australian voters – to change things we don’t like.
He works for us. He is there in our time and our penny. What he proposes is the issue of tin dictatorships.
The Greens contribute nothing more than absolutism.
They don’t need to be responsible because they never are. They can afford to punch the legislative table and demand in their own way, presumptuously and arrogantly because they know they are putting the government in power.
This is the bed the Labor Party made and now it hopes we are all there.
The fact that the European Union has decided in a wonderful and magical way that nuclear and gas are renewable energy sources indicates how well the renewables agenda is going on the continent (here’s a clue: it’s going very, very bad).
However, somehow the Greens still demand and in some strange places are given, an air of credibility.
Surely it is worth remembering that if it were not for its arrogant intransigence, Australia would have had ETA a decade ago. But they refused. It was his way or it was nothing.
This is not the policy of a party that is based on anything other than its own interest.
By tying itself to the Greens so inextricably in an electoral sense, Federal Labor has hung a millstone of epic proportions around its neck.
The prime minister blinked last week as he backtracked on the issue of restoring Covid’s pandemic payments.
He said it wouldn’t happen, until it happened.
It didn’t take much pressure and it didn’t take long to toss the coin.
Anthony Albanese would not be prime minister without the preferences of the Greens.
Let’s see if he has the ticker to face these political thugs, this marginal party of extremism.
Heaven knows the country needs it.