Made in Australia? Unlikely, under ‘United Nations’ Albanese.

For an arid continent in the far south seas, it's a staggering policy distortion. Probably one million migrants, net, in two years of government. About 400,000 higher than the previous record – also Labor. About 850,000 higher, than the level which might eventually stabiliseour population, around 30 million.

UN-style population policy

In opposition, Albanese promised "climate action" and jobs for Australians first. In government, he's delivered UN open borders.

Instead of dissing the public service like Scott Morrison, he lavished extra resources, to process more visas faster than ever.

Importantly, his unheard-of immigration has required unprecedented fibbing. It's not population replacement, heck no, we're "halving migration".

To group applause from uniformlyselfish "stakeholders", UN Albanese has achieved all this. Bravisimo, as they'd say in Argentina. Do local paisanos buy it? Not yet.

No reliable post-COVID survey aligns voters with Huge Australia, which diminishes their living standards and crushes housing affordability. Creates tent cities.

The sixth voter surveyfrom Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI) confirms the resentment. Despite the "progressive" climate agenda, nearly 50% of respondents wanted much lower or nil net-migration, well up from the previous survey.

About 70% thought Australia didn't need more people. Treasury, however, is implacable. It's not enough to mushroom from 19 million people to 27 million, just this century. Only 40 million plus will do.

How do government and stakeholders deal with voter resistance? Cruelly. Can't find affordable accommodation? Not our problem, losers. Eat this Budget surplusinstead.

UN-slanted environment policy

It's common sense, Australia's environmental decline proceeds on various physical fronts. Largely due to endless growth and state-sponsored over-development - too many humans converting too much of a finite and fragile continent. 1788 environmental attitudes persist.

How does the 21^st century Aussie economy handle this struggle? Like, forget about habitat and water, just shrink the environmental concerns down to greenhouse-gas emissions.

Via dodgy carbon-accounting, UN "net-zero emissions 2050" sidelines the global overpopulation issue. Notionally, Australia signed the UN protocol in 2016, but Albanese escalated the commitment in 2022.

Never mind net-zero's dubious validity and practicality. Although, few scientists compromise their careers, by saying so openly.

Albanese Labor too, dismisses overpopulation and the damaged environment, coz we're helping UN address the "climate emergency". Let's give Ken Henry's endangered marsupials the good news.

The EU threatened Morrison with carbon "border taxes" on Australian imports. Superficially, Albanese's a game-changer.

Lionised as a climate hero by Canada - the other rich democracy doing massive migration plus aggravated rental crisis plus fake housing plan. Scored a prized guernsey, from the German climate club.

Back home, when he's home that is, he's a whirlwind. Net-zero legislation for net-zero target with net-zero authority plus net-zero public service and net-zero economy.

Climate stakeholders, vie for virtue. Climate Authority suggests an "ambitious" 65-75% emissions reduction by 2035. What about net-zero 2035, chirrup Climate Council and ANU.

CSIRO marches "Towards Net Zero", betting on "carbon sequestration". For the Superpower Institute, never mind Australian net-zero, we can also absorb an "extra 7%" of global emissions. Seriously?

In Climate & Environment Department (DCCEEW), Ministers Bowen and McAllister's climate and energy divisions are the bee's knees. Environment divisions, under Minister Plibersek, are so 20^th century.

Two years of environmental reform promises went onto life-support, when WA mining interests got toey. Will Labor ever get over the miners' defenestration of Kevin Rudd?

But surely UN loves us by now? Didn't come across that way, when the self-important UNFCCC chiefvisited. If we didn't meet our "climate targets", he lectured, we'd need to be "front and centre" in resettling entire populations of climate refugees.

UN-themed industry policy

It's often said Australia shouldn't "pick winners", industry policy no longer being favoured.

All advanced nations pick distinctive industry priorities. Sardonically, ours read like intensive agriculture, natural-resources giveaways, extreme population growth, "export" education, and real-estate speculation.

The first industry, they say, feeds more than 60 million people (in total). Given our poor soils and climatic extremes, let's protect this small global virtue. Don't risk it through Big (or Huge) Australia.

The second, especially iron-ore and fossil-fuels, keeps us afloat. As a commodities price-taker, our federal Budget can stand or fall on red-dirt fluctuations. Unlike sensible nations, we sequester far too little of the come-by-chance spoils.

Instead of enforcing vigorous wealth-funds, robust levies, strict taxes, Australia kowtows to extractive multinationals. Juukan Gorge explosion symbolises the contempt we receive in return.

Isn't the only way up? Don't bet on it.

Last year, Treasurer Chalmers' Budget trumpeted "renewable-energy superpower" and "net-zero industries". Now, this is morphing into industry policy.

Albanese's Made in Australia launch declares, this isn't "about ideology". The hell it's not.

Australian manufacturing has further collapsed this century. Energetic R&D, buzzing venture-capital culture, aren't local style.

Manufacturing inputs like land, transport, energy, communications, labour, are costly. In the name of "export education", training locals for vital professions and trades is at a discount. Twenty years of Big Australia has wrecked productivityand capital formation.

Albanese perpetuates east-coast gas cartel, source of ruinous energy prices. Gas scarcely being a UN-approved fuel, our gas-bonanza is weaponised instead, to punish local consumers and manufacturers.

Leapfrogging these structural impediments, the launch plucks out modish "winners". "Green" hydrogen, "green" or critical minerals, and "advanced" (read solar) manufacturing.

These follow from the local cargo-cult, whereby our bountiful sun, wind, and terrain, will make us a global energy superpower and carbon super-sink.

Even if this were true, how much (manufacturing) advantage would it confer, when we have third-world population growth plus spendthrift natural-resources management? When we've systematically undermined the preconditions for industrial prosperity?

Ironically, even Superpower Institute disliked Made in Australia. In their fantastic "net-zero world" Albanese should only subsidise true areas of "comparative advantage". Guess what, "green iron".

Twiggy Forrest and Mike Cannon-Brookes duked it out, over their futuristic energy-cable to Singapore. If green billionaire energy projects are such exciting commercial prospects, do they really need subsidies?

Ah well, Made in Australia also includes quantum computing, but with a whiff of crony capitalism in the deal. Like AI, this too requires humungous energy inputs, "abated" close to net-zero no doubt.

Electoral implications

Masquerading as an identity-conscious climate-wise socialist, the authoritarian fixer Albanese is driving too many Australians into substandard accommodation and homelessness.

His "UN Australia" model ought to galvanise a free-enterprise Liberal Opposition. However, while rebuking Labor lies, Liberals are careful never to commit to low migration. They tiptoe round net-zero, yet risk their electoral appeal, over nuclear power.

In the US and EU, notes TAPRI, strong parties or coalitions channel voter dismay at "progressive" globalisation and mass migration. TAPRI points to Denmark, long on competitiveness and redistribution, short on immigration.

In Australia, Labor, Liberal, Greens, Teals, seem to be waiting for the changing electoral demographic to swing round to the elite consensus. Too much immigration is never enough.

Ominously, the imminent Budget and ensuing election will lock in 250,000-300,000 net-migration annually, as the "normal" or "desirable" minimum. Three-four times too high.

According to the Treasurer's latest pitch, the top criteria for Made in Australia Budget largesse will be industries "where we can be competitive" that contribute to an "orderly path to net-zero". This is UN motherhood, and won't offset our regressive population, environment, and industrial, settings.