Australia the 'Dumb Country' - can we get lucky again?

Anyway, I was discharged and didn't think too much about it until my mother and I were on a steam train headed back to my old hometown of Bundaberg.

I was still groggy from pain killers and with a patch over one eye, I dozed off. Then something woke me, I opened my one good eye but everything was pitch black.

"Mum, I can't see, I'm blind!" I blurted.

Why was my lovely mother laughing?

"Don't worry, John, we're just going through a tunnel.."

Well I never did grow a third eye like the Blinkey Bill meme, these days I still have 20/20 vision as confirmed by my driver's licence renewal test a few days ago, while Labor, Greens and Teals are the only ones with tunnel vision.

It's incomprehensible they continue to claim we should be the only industrialised nation to attempt to get anywhere near the fabled "net zero" by 2050 by relying totally on unreliable renewables. This will involve destroying an area greater than the size of Tasmania, including arable farmland, native forests, vast koala habitats, offshore fishing grounds and whale migration routes.

But there is some hope on the horizon if a majority of Australians actually recognise the facts from the spin when we elect a new government next year. However, if Labor is returned, possibly with a minority Greens alliance, we are in for a very bleak future with blackouts and loadshedding becoming the new norm, and power bills inevitably continuing their rapid upward spiral.

Can we become the Lucky Country again?