Something isn&#039;t right

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Brilliant note from Andrew Hastie

In 2018, I stood on a truck outside my office in Mandurah to address a crowd of local Alcoa workers.
It was late 2018, and these workers were locked in an industrial dispute.
And they were worried their jobs would be on the line.
I told these workers that I understood their legitimate concerns. But I also mentioned the rising cost of energy.
The bigger picture was that our rush to renewables and green energy had put pressure on families, businesses and industry.
Consecutive governments had made power expensive and working Australians were paying the price.
This week, the Albanese Government, with the support of the Greens, rammed home its Climate Change Bill and legislated a fixed target for emissions reductions.
Just two months after the election, Anthony Albanese has done a deal with the Greens that will see working families struggle, Aussie jobs offshored and reliable baseload coal and gas fired energy replaced with unreliable, foreign-built renewables.
This Government claims they have ended the climate wars.
In reality, their war on working families and industry has just begun.
Labor and the Greens cannot suspend the law of economics.
Their legislated target—without any clear safeguards to protect our sovereign industry, or a mechanism to keep power prices affordable—will make Australia less competitive and productive.
Ordinary Australians and their families will bear the cost. Our national resilience will be weakened.
At a time when the strategic costs of weakness are staring us in the face.
The war in Ukraine and the soaring power prices in Europe remind us that we cannot be dependent upon authoritarian powers for energy.
Labor and the Greens have chosen to ignore this lesson.
I think back to the workers I backed in 2018.
They were fighting for their livelihoods then.
The Opposition, led by Peter Dutton, will stand by Australian families, businesses and industry.
We will hold Labor and the Greens accountable, and fight to preserve our energy independence.
That’s why nuclear power must be part of the discussion. Stay tuned.
Regards,

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What a load of warped logic by Mr Hastie:

(a) he purports to support Aussie Workers when the Libs have done everything their power to smash the Trade Unions

(b) he refers to Coal & Gas as "our Sovereign Industries" when there is over 86% of our coal & gas industries
foreign owned (The Libs oppose Sovereign Industries...ie: State Owned Enterprises) and Alcoa which he refers to
is majority foreign owned...not a sovereign industry either.

(c) The Libs under Mr Howard oversaw the biggest overseas outsourcing of Aussie jobs in history
with call centres in India, Phillipines, South Africa and any angliphone 3rd world that you can mention

(d) The Libs have overseen the outsourcing of the pricing mechanism for our petrol, diesel
to Singapore thereby rendering our ACCC powerless to do anything about Big Oil gouging
the average Aussie worker at the bowser. And dont mention the offshoring of corporate
profits to avoid Aussie Corporate Tax while Mr Hastie's party was in power since 2013.
The ATO (albeit 8 years too late) nailed BHP (90% Foreign owned) & RIO (86% Foreign owned)
for over a $Billion in Transfer Pricing via Singapore alone!

If Mr Hastie purports to represent the better interests of the Aussie Worker & not the interests
of foreign owned corporations, then he is in the wrong political party. He should do the decent
thing and join Labor....the workers party.

While Mr Hastie was assistant Minister over a year ago he sat on his hands in Parliament
while ScoMo & Josh opposed a decent wage increase for 2.5 million Aussie workers on $20/hour!
And Mr Hastie purports to represent the interests of Aussie Workers.......what a load of bollocks!