LIKE Yevgeny Prigozhin, Barnaby Joyce marched feebly on the capital at the weekend for reasons comparably arcane. The Daily Telegraph reports that the former National Party chief wants his old job back. That’s believable but the beefs cited as a pretext for rebellion are a little synthetic. Their sudden debut should also be regarded as suspicious – revealed, as they were, in the newspaper that employs Mr Joyce’s girlfriend. David Littleproud – who bested him fair and square in affray last year – has allegedly been quite rude to staffers (!) and his willingness to play second fiddle to Peter Dutton is seen as infra dig. It’s impossible to take the latter criticism seriously given that a majority of Nationals voted to betray their constituents by supporting net zero in late 2021 out of obedience to Scott Morrison. Like Albo, Molly and Kylie, Barnaby is a one-name national figure (David isn’t) and is still a retail draw. Comedians and crashes always are.
If there is buyer’s remorse over endorsing the climate hoax – and land-vandalising wires, poles and panels – it makes a modicum of sense to rehabilitate Joycean improv because the member for New England voted against that surrender. Unless he intends to orchestrate a repudiation of his party’s support for a 2050 ‘target,’ however, the existential danger of fraternising with the urban left will only create fresh problems. There is a dual notion abroad in the Nationals that pushing for nuclear power expiates the net zero disgrace and that cost-of-living polemics obviate the need to campaign for the revival of a fossil-fuel economy. As far as I can make out, Mr Joyce is in this camp – even if he does play the livid white knight for coal on Sky after dark. Barnaby looks 70 but he and capable Queenslander Keith Pitt – the other man being mentioned in dispatches – are in the prime of their political lives. They should act accordingly or stand aside for two younger stars not serving up tofu as red meat: Matt Canavan and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
Let’s not put too much weight on Jacinta. For one, she has to work out how to deal with clan politics in the Alice. Her Senate term is only 3 years. If the Voice is rejected, she can work on lifting her profile as an Aboriginal leader. There’s lots of good things possible, but she needs a few years.
Barnaby has done his dash, he’s been there twice. He’s got to stop making it all about himself. He made his life choices and they don’t fit with leadership.
That one-name cool. Joyce once wore it well, but he should depart now.
Dealing with clan politics will be a weight alright.
When the Indigenous push for great power is rejected, it would be good to see Jacinta progress.
Inexplicably, the Nationals still retain strong support from their base, which their results in the previous two feral elections clearly demonstrate.
While Pitt is relatively sound on most matters, the Beetrooter is quite simply not an option. Old, tired, unprincipled, exhibits questionable morals and ethics and should never be forgiven for his party’s sellout to Goose Morristeen on the net year zero stupidity – after all, he was leader of the Nationals at the time.
Canavan on the other hand, looks the goods and is one of the handful of coalition politicians who unrelentingly attacks labore and the greenfilth on the same basis I would – the sheer destructive stupidity, unworkability and unrepentant spitefulness of their so called policies.
Which is precisely the reason Canavan has zero chance of becoming leader of the Nationals any time soon. Happy to be wrong on this, at least.
Canavan’s everything you say he is, Rabz, and he instinctively knows how to cut through in a debate and in any melee with the media. Imagine him instead of Ted O’Brien.
The problem is he’s stuck in the unrepresentative swill chamber and doesn’t have a shadow portfolio. A move to the lower house can’t come soon enough, but where’s the obvious seat? Perhaps Michelle Landry will move on after ten years, but I doubt it.
Jack – good point, he’d need to move into the HoR.
One gets the impression that Canavan is held in check both by the party room and by the media.
Considering the MSM disinterest in Labor’s Mean Girls and their bullying, its sudden concern about pollies being rude to staffers is truly heartwarming stuff.
BJ was once amazing. Sadly, no more.
Barnaby had his chance, and he blew it. My beef with him has nothing to do with his private life, it has to do with the fact that when in power, he was simply Morrison’s little poodle, he supported the lockdowns, the vaccine mandates and the coup de grace was the decision to support the “net zero emissions” folly, that decision was the nail in the coffin.
Unlike Pitt and Canavan, Beetroot is not consistent.
In November 2021, the Nationals should have walked away from the Coalition over net zero. It was and remains a disaster.
Beetroot is Barnaby?
That clears up (for me at least) who beetroot head is in Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain cartoons is.
They should act accordingly or stand aside for two younger stars not serving up tofu as red meat: Matt Canavan and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
Matt Canavan can’t draw a crowd electorally, that’s why Blondie didn’t get up as a Senator from #3.
Jacinta price almost lost the NT Senate seat last year, that’s how much cred she’s got with those that know her.
In November 2021, the Nationals should have walked away from the Coalition over net zero. I
The fact that they didn’t is the reason they kept all their 17 Lower House seats.
Canavan is just a grifter and a drag on the LNP vote.
First it was HELE technology, now it’s Nuclear Power.
Fact:
Once the U.S. walks away from Renewables, it’ll be safe for us to go back in the water.
Until then, anyone squawking about Coal or Nuclear is a bullshit artist.
Beetroot.
Strawberry works just as well.
Anyone with any sense should run (not walk) away from backstabbing, unprincipled Morrison.
Canavan, Alex Antic and Pauline Hanson are among the extremely few (probably less than a half-dozen) current politicians I would vote for in a heartbeat if he or she were in my constituency.
“Jacinta price almost lost the NT Senate seat last year, that’s how much cred she’s got with those that know her.”
I think you meant “DON’T know her”. Like, she’s not exactly favourably presented by the MSM, eh? Or are you just a racist, Ed? (:-)
Richard again warbling from the fringe of reality. Anyone talking about nuclear now is setting the stage to be on the right side of history when the US drops renewable. The only way anyone gets to net Zero is Nuclear. Only a simple would think otherwise.
Hugh, Jacinta Price is one aboriginal whose “voice” the left almost universally wish was silenced.
Anyone talking about nuclear now is setting the stage to be on the right side of history when the US drops renewable. The only way anyone gets to net Zero is Nuclear.
Obama meets Joe Biden?
Listen, stupid:
Once the U.S. jettisons Renewables, NetZero is dead in the water too.
Listen sift wit. Net Zero can still be chased and achieved with nuclear. Do you think the left will accept they were completely wrong and go back to coal. Ask all of your mates at the next gathering. Probably best you do it before the soggy Sao circle jerk.
Net Zero is a fool’s errand. A non-solution to a non-problem. The only way to stop this nation-destroying rubbish is to attack it at the source.
I love nuclear, but not because it’s net zero. Au contraire. We might be able to produce via nuclear MORE CO2 which we desperately need for our starving plants at the bottom of the food chain. Coal will help, too.
Remember we came perilously close to the 180 ppm a century or so ago, at which all plant life ceases. 400 ppm? Still close to peril, according to secular science, and rightly so, as far as I can tell.
Pump it up, guys. Get with the nurserymen who unload thousands of CO2 ppm on their plants. Now, why would they do that? Hmmm!
And – I’ve asked this before- quick question: Where does life teem? At the freezing poles or at the “burning” equator?
Why do we insist on shooting ourselves in the foot?
Ed is a racist, he’s proved that across several threads, but the comparison of black people to dog breeds was the nadir.
The problem, Albos, is that this line of argumentation concedes the point that net zero matters. Net zero must be repudiated and cheap coal-fired power generation revived. If we have nuke as well, great, but the Coalition has to learn the simple bloody lesson: stop yielding the floor to lies.
Jupes,
We should be building coal plants up and down the east coast. Grifters soaking up subsidies and stealing straight out of our pockets with over priced electricity mean until the hurt is beyond bearing renewable will be on the menu.
My point was that when that happens liebor, the filth, and the green tinged minges will not countenance coal. The media class will run cover for the continued demonisation of coal, the only black they can’t support.
This leaves us with…….. Ready Richard? NUCLEAR.
I have always thought net Zero was the price of AUKUS and Scomo saw it as a means to an ends to remove appease the wets in the party. He just didn’t have the guts to say we will use the nuclear tech we gain to save the planet.
CL I wish it could be beaten but now that the Rubicon has been crossed I don’t think anyone of the major parties would be able to row themselves back to the shores of sanity.
An entire class of politicians, bureaucrats, former leaders, taxpayer-funded ‘scientists’, ‘consultants’, hedge fund gamblers and corporate weather vanes are in thrall to a dogma that makes them feel good about themselves while raking in mountainous salaries, grants, subsidies and dividends. They regard themselves as a clean elite, pious and unsullied.
Throughout modern history, sociopaths have always preferred to show their ‘love’ for humanity as a block rather than to individuals with inherent freedoms. The Gores, Kerrys, Schwabs and Bowens are first cousins to the Lenins, Stalins, Hitlers and Maos.
They’re less honest, of course.
First and second best options for baseload power in Australia right there.
First and second best options for baseload power in Australia right there.
Banks won’t lend the money, Unions won’t supply the labour and materials.
Ed, the nanosecond renewable subsidies cease because nuclear is stepping into the obvious intermittent void, the banks will have two massive problems; one, their corporate books will take a default-loss beating, and two, their lemming-like institutional banking division ‘sustainable lending only’ strategies will be shown to have been complicit in a massive national misallocation of investment.
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Ed, the nanosecond renewable subsidies cease because nuclear is stepping into the obvious intermittent void,
Tex, that ain’t happ’nin’, for the reasons I gave earlier.
Yes it will, because once the renewable industry inevitably collapses will) the only choices are coal, gas, hydro, or nuclear.
Banks and unions will have no say, nor should they.
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“Banks won’t lend the money, Unions won’t supply the labour and materials.”
So, completely deregulate the banks, including the Reserve Bank, go back to gold and silver, etc.And deregulate the labour market, thus emasculating the perfidious unions.
What’s to lose?
As Michael Caine says in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels : “It’s a revolutionary thought!”
The banks do what they are told … it’s a cartel operation with enough central planning such that you can be sure, when they all start hand wringing over ESG scores it was because they took instructions not because they happened to spontaneously think it was a good idea.
The unions have played their part in slowly but surely deindustrializing Australia … not all their fault, but a good fraction was. Doesn’t matter if you want to build a power station, or a feed lot, or a factory making cars, or even a corner cafe … all business in Australia is subject to excessive risk these days … from unions, from protests, from government changing the rules at arbitrary times.
We have reached the point of a third world country where local special economic zones might be needed. Sign a deal with India they can have a patch of land and several thousand guaranteed PR visas per year … exempt from interference from Australian IR laws. You would find many Australian workers want to move there so they could actually do some work.
It was made clear to the banks during the GFC that if they wanted government-backed bailouts, they would enact the globalist agenda.
Tel, much more profound than I could ever have written, and extremely informative. Thank you.
With regard to the unions: I understand from my (limited) history of unions, at least in the UK in the early stages, that they were furiously lassez-faire!
What a far cry from unions and the whole labour/business scene today. Not to speak of woke and net neutral cr*p.
Go carbon! P.S. Pope Francis is bullsh*t in my estimation. I go to Mass every Sunday and Feast Days and as often I can every day (I’m a carer of my dementia sister, so it’s not possible every day.) Only the traditional Latin Mass, of course. The New Rite stuff is cr*p, wall to wall.
Good on you Tel, regardless of your personal beliefs.
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Tel, BTW: I’ve often thought, create a special economic zone for Hong Kong people in, say, midnorth NSW. Same tax and regulatory arrangements as obtained in HK in the decades wherein it spectacularly flourished to the embarrassment of lefties everywhere. (Or why not … even better? No taxes. Laissez-faire.
Gina R has long entertained these thoughts about the north. But the scornful opposition has come from guess who? The freakin’ neocon liberals.
I expect Biden to be reelected and I expect his regime to double down on net zero.So I disagree that teh US are going to walk away from renewables.
The “elite” arent affected and dont care what happens to anyone else.
They are implementing what they see as just and good for the nation and reality is merely something to be ignored.
I expect that we will go the same way.I cannot see the Libs being reelected anytime soon, even if the arse falls out of the economy.Labor will buy enough votes to get back in, probably in coalition with the Greens who will double down on their demands .I see a very bleak future.
To get back to topic:
Littleproud is the worst kind of politician, a policy free zone. His only tactic is to work out how best to spend taxpayer dollars by throwing them out like candy. And not opposed to favouring electorates, like Maranoa.
The only reason he is leader today is the national party wets did not want Barnaby back. Littleproud is the compromise leader.
Now, Barnaby has his faults, but he also has the support of many, many National party voters. Sure, Canavan is definitely the best policy development wise amongst the current parliamentary members, but as noted he is a senator. Perhaps Canavan could be the think tank and Barnaby the seller. Much like Peter Walsh and Paul Keating were in the Hawke Government.
A new nation called Gondwana, being north of the Tropic of Capricorn and unburdened by all the rubbish legislation and regulation spewed out from Canberra and state capitals for the las thirty years. And not a member of the UN.
Jane Caro would be better served advocating for psychiatric assessment and ongoing mental health care, but then she’s Jane Caro.
Sign a deal with India they can have a patch of land and several thousand guaranteed PR visas per year … exempt from interference from Australian IR laws. You would find many Australian workers want to move there so they could actually do some work.
For $3 a day?
I don’t think so.
I expect Biden to be reelected and I expect his regime to double down on net zero.So I disagree that teh US are going to walk away from renewables.
Okay.
I didn’t say the U.S. was going to walk away from renewables.
What I said was that we won’t be building any Coal Power Stations until they do.
I think cost of living would be much lower in such an economic zone.
Cup of rice a day and drink your own piss to wash it down.
Libertarian utopia, here we come!
They can do it back home. Why would they spend money for visas and travel to bring their workers to Australia? Doesn’t make sense.
I don’t think anyone already in Australia will agree to these conditions.
They won’t go straight from renewable to nuclear he says. Sweden, that scion of hard right politics has done exactly that.. What say you know Richard. Let me guess some sophistry on how you were talking about the States and banks and some other dissembling bullshit designed to obfuscate that fact you are stupid.