Either the gods or the Chinese Communist Party have a sense of humour. Smack in the middle of a question time in parliament, where Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris ‘Blackout’ Bowen was copping a shellacking, all the lights went out. To make it even funnier, Treasurer Jim Chalmers had earlier been cheering on the government-engineered destruction of Australia’s once-reliable coal-fired power stations.
Jim Chalmers has said it’s “extremely clear” that the best chance of bringing down energy prices, which have jumped by 37 per cent over the year, is to remove coal-fired power from the energy mix and continue with Labor’s renewables rollout.
“What is extremely clear, if you listen to any credible expert, economist or analyst of our power grid, is that the best chance to get power bills down over the medium term is to replace this aging, increasingly unreliable fleet of coal fired power stations,” he said.
Aaaaannnndddd… boom!
The lights in the House of Representatives have switched off to the delight of the opposition benches, who waved their phone torches across the house.
In a clear dig at the Energy Minister Chris Bowen, whom the opposition have given the moniker “blackout Bowen”, the opposition leapt to their feet after the lights switched off in the chamber, shouting and pointing at the government benches.
You couldn’t make this stuff up.
Even the specific subject dominating questions when the lights went out – inflation – is directly related to Bowen’s demented ‘Net Zero’ wrecking ball.
While the political spotlight has suddenly switched to the economy as inflation soared to 3.8 per cent, Bowen remained centre stage because the highest level of inflation in 16 months was a result of a 37 per cent increase in electricity prices.
Bowen is being roasted, not just over Labor’s climate obsession driving Australia’s energy prices through the roof, but his ridiculous posturing on the Climate Cult world stage. Even though Bowen lost his dream of Australia hosting next year’s COP climate beano, and was humiliated into not even showing up in Turkey next November, he’s still strutting around as president of COP31, leading to yet another grilling. This time, over just which job he’s doing: an Australian government minister or a globalist Climate Cult ‘el presidente’?
[Garth Hamilton] was ordered to leave the chamber after raising a point of order on relevance in which he called the minister ‘el presidente’.
Behind the name-calling, though, is a very real question: just whose interests is Bowen actually representing?
After missing Monday’s House of Representatives question time while in transit from the UN climate change COP30 summit in Brazil, Bowen tried on Tuesday to deflect claims his appointment as the COP31 president meant he was only a “part-time minister because he was a full-time president” […]
What’s worse for Bowen is the conflict between his role as Energy Minister and the COP global negotiating president goes beyond the simple question of time devoted to each job and to the central aims of the COP31 over the next 12 months.
Bowen’s signing of Australia on to the Colombian-led Belem Declaration group with 23 other nations on the weekend pits him and Australia against the final communique of COP30 in Brazil, with a specific commitment to phase out – not transition – all fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas.
This commitment means Bowen is on a path to go down a more radical path for a fossil fuel-free future in 2026 and in direct contrast to Anthony Albanese’s emphatic declaration Australia needs gas for “transition” decades ahead and there will be no change to coal exports […]
He also faces calls from climate change activists on one side to ensure Australia adheres to the more radical aims of the Belem Declaration and criticism from Coalition energy spokesman Dan Tehan, who has declared: “Bowen is now completely conflicted.”
At a time when very little at all is going the opposition’s way, Bowen is the gift that just keeps on giving. As Tehan said, Bowen’s face should be on every electricity bill struggling Australian workers get. Bowen is not just the face of a ‘Net Zero’ policy, which is not just beggaring households but wrecking the entire economy and destroying industries critical to the nation’s defence, such as aluminium and steel manufacturing, he’s also hopelessly conflicted in trying to be a government minister and a global Climate Cult high priest.
The parliamentary blackout also highlights another governmental weak spot: Penny Wong’s and Anthony Albanese’s sunny optimism that China is no threat to Australia. The blackout came hot on the heels of an IT blackout that was almost certainly the work of ‘state-sponsored hackers’. Three guesses who that might be.
The mystery outage occurred just days after the Department of Parliamentary Services warned MPs and Senators to ramp up their cyber security precautions during a visit by China’s No3 leader Zhao Leji […]
The cause of the outage was not yet known, but the parliament network is considered a prime target for state-sponsored hackers, offering a window into government communications and upcoming policy decisions.
DPS security warned building occupants on Monday to safeguard their IT during Chairman Zhao’s visit.
If China really is such a benevolent big brother, then why do we have to protect our centre of government from them?
And if ‘renewables’ really are so cheap and reliable, why are power prices so staggeringly high at the same time as grid reliability is collapsing?
