Apparently determined to prove that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results, Boofhead Bowen is responding to yet another collapsed ‘green hydrogen’ boondoggle by doubling down and throwing even more taxpayers’ money at a green white elephant.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has pledged $432 million to revive a green hydrogen project in the Hunter Valley, sticking by the emerging energy source despite many companies putting investment in the sector on ice.
Because a career politician knows more about business than private enterprise.
The Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub was initially a joint proposal between Orica and Origin Energy, with the latter pulling out of the initiative in October last year.
Origin chief executive Frank Calabria said at the time: “it has become clear that the hydrogen market is developing more slowly than anticipated, and there remain risks and both input cost and technology advancements to overcome”.
In other words, it’s another greenwashing pipe dream.
To really rub salt into the bleeding Australian taxpayers’ wounds, Bowen is apparently trying to link yet another Labor colossal waste of money to yet another egregious Labor policy failure: defence.
Mr Bowen said the investment in Orica’s proposed Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub would “secure the future of ammonia and explosives manufacturing at Kooragang Island by reducing its reliance on gas” […]
“This investment shows we can secure existing industries such as ammonia and fertiliser production by transforming how they’re powered – creating new clean-tech jobs and future-proofing the Hunter’s economic base,” Mr Bowen said.
Is this man a complete idiot?
Don’t bother to answer: we already know.
Bowen’s epic stupidity also makes a mockery of his boss’ latest eructation of flatulent bullshit.
Anthony Albanese will declare it is time for big employers and small business owners to resume their rightful place as primary drivers of the economy and acknowledge government “doing less” would unleash the private sector, as he lays the ground for Labor’s economic reform roundtable.
How does that gel with the government pouring billions into taxpayer-subsidised duds like ‘green hydrogen’?
The prime minister on Friday will outline his second-term economic vision to modernise the economy, embrace new technologies, cut red tape, progress tax reform, turbocharge productivity and eliminate overlapping local, state and federal laws.
Says the guy who has overseen a collapse in productivity, a cancerous growth of meddling government bureaucracy and a suffocating wall of red tape. In Albanese’s first term, the Labor government introduced no less than 5,000 new ligatures of red tape.
There were more than 5000 regulations added under the Albanese government’s first term, with the coalition accusing Labor of being disingenuous in its post-election push to cut red tape.
With Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers declaring cuts to red tape would be eyed at the upcoming productivity roundtable, Parliamentary Library analysis showed there were 958 regulations enacted in the health, aged care and disability portfolio and 891 in Treasury since Labor was elected in 2022.
There were 646 new rules implemented under the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts, and 368 in the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
The analysis, commissioned by the coalition, showed there were 153 new regulations in employment and workplace relations, 199 in agriculture and 82 in industry, science and resources.
That’s on top of nearly doubling the federal public service.
Who does this clown think he’s kidding?
Lastly, and grimly, the scourge of anti-Semitism continues to metastasize through the chattering elite. First was the announcement that Hezbollah-fangirling ‘artist’ Khaled Sabsabi has been re-instated as Australia’s representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Labor Minister Tony ‘Muslim Vote’ Burke disgracefully celebrated the ghastly news.
If there’s anywhere where anti-Semitism is more rampant than among the Yartz luvvies, it’s among the credentialled cretins of ‘academia’.
An academic at Australia’s national university has suggested in an overseas interview that Iran should consider “serious nuclear measures” to counter Israel in the wake of its devastating defeat in the 12-Day War.
ANU’s senior lecturer in Middle East studies, Alam Saleh, told Al-Jazeera in the past week that Iran would never be secure if Israel could attack it without fear of “serious retaliation” and that the continuation of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons program was in its best interest […]
The senior lecturer’s comments come months after the university’s chancellor, former foreign minister Julie Bishop, was forced to express “absolute confidence” in its under-pressure vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell amid criticism of her handling of anti-Jewish bigotry on campus.
Never forget that some of the most enthusiastic early-adopters of Nazism were Germany’s universities and their students. Clearly, anti-Semitism is a brain-rot that particularly infects the ‘intelligentsia’.
Orwell was right.
