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“Captain Hindsight” is a superhero, of sorts, from South Park. His ‘superpower’ is swooping in on the wake of disaster and loudly informing everyone of what they should have done to prevent it. The Australian industry groups taking the stick to the Albanese government are no Captain Hindsights: they didn’t wait till after disaster struck; they were shouting warnings for years.
Warnings that fell on deaf and stupid ears.
The Albanese government has been accused of “serious negligence” and “putting the community at risk” by ignoring warnings on fuel and fertiliser vulnerabilities for years, as industry demanded an expedited food security plan.
Food industry groups and experts told the Australian the current fuel and fertiliser crisis, triggered by the Iran war, exposed government failure to heed repeated warnings on the need for a food and fuel security plan since 2022.
They urged the government to use the crisis – fuel shortages on farms and in regional areas, and surging fertiliser costs – as a catalyst to expedite, elevate and properly fund its promised national food security strategy.
That would mean finally admitting, even quietly amongst themselves, that Albanese’s and Boofhead Bowen’s mad obsession with ‘Net Zero’ has been an all-round disaster. Pigs will fly into Lakemba Mosque first.
“The government was warned four years ago on the consequences of not having an overarching, nationally co-ordinated food security plan. And here we are: no food security plan and no fuel security strategy, both of which must be part of Australia’s national security.”
[Food and Grocery Sector Forum industry chair Richard Forbes], also chief executive of Independent Food Distributors Australia, was one of nine key supply chain chiefs who wrote to the government in December 2022 pleading for an urgent food security plan to secure fuel and fertiliser inputs against external shocks.
That submission – backed by further lobbying in 2023 and 2024, also seen by the Australian – warned the nation was vulnerable due to reliance on imports for “machinery and equipment … ingredients, crop protection products … fuel and fertilisers”.
The government responded exactly as you’d expect a pathetic globalist government to: with a commitment to hold an inquiry into developing a white paper to form a committee to run an investigation into proposing a plan.
The government finally announced in March 2025 $3.5m to develop a national food security strategy, “Feeding Australia”. However, industries are frustrated at a two-year development time frame and extended consultation to placate what some regard as “fringe groups”.
These include small-scale farmers and food justice and nutrition advocates who, backed by the Macdoch Foundation, have run a “Who Decides Food?” campaign to broaden representation on the National Food Council, chosen to develop the strategy.
In other words, a gaggle of tilty-headed hippies and back-to-the-Earth wokies that spend most of their time fretting over whether the kale accompanying their vegan smashed avocado is heirloom organic or not. Go to the Macdoch Foundation website and the first thing that assaults your eyes and braincells is woke bullshit like this: “Macdoch acknowledges and pays our respects to the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia where we live, learn and work. We recognise the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in caring for Country and community, supporting generations past, present and future.”
Do we really want these cretins in charge of our future?
National Food Council member Andrew Henderson, author of a landmark food security green paper, told The Australian that while broader issues were important, they must not divert focus from key inputs such as fuel and fertiliser.
“The basic function of our food system relies on it,” Mr Henderson said. “If we haven’t shored up those foundations, then we won’t be talking about food nutrition – we’ll be talking about basic food availability. And that goes to social cohesion and the stability of our society.”
Translation: when there’s no petrol at the bowser and no food on the supermarket shelves, things are going to get pretty ugly.
The damnable thing is that they had a dry run for exactly this sort of thing, three years ago.
“If nothing else, this situation is demonstrating the fragility of our supply chains. As a society, we have not learned the lessons that Covid tried to teach us, and if we don’t learn them now then I’m afraid we’ll never learn.”
When it comes to socialist numpties like the Labor party, they will never learn.
