Net-zero or none, Ley's still backing Albanese's severe immigration/housing crunch

Ley's first major statement of June 2025 went long on personal narrative, short on Albo fails. Now her Liberals have purged net-zero, supposedly with the Nationals tail wagging the Coalition dog, what of it?

The left insists, voters (especially younger, city, voters) seamlessly accept the "science" of climate change. Therefore, Ley can't win without net-zero, even if it's pie in the sky . For globalist Guardian , Paris climate "commitments" are ineluctable, to be pursued at all costs.

Yet even the ABC acknowledges, world emissions/CO2/temperatures motor on, in defiance of pious decades of UN "climate action". That is, they keep rising.

In Australia's net-zero religion, you can keep on pumping GDP/population/consumption, yet at some future point, emissions/CO2/temperatures will magically correct for this endless growth. That is, they'll bend it like Beckham.

This is junk science. It's a 21^st century pro-China gift, an unscientific distraction that suits Australian politicians.

Voters might want "climate action" but they're not much willing to pay for it and they'd rather have cheap energy.

Renewables are about 35% of our energy generation mix, estimates government, but rather less of our primary energy consumption mix. Down Under theorising says, the higher Australia goes, the closer we edge to energy superpower.

Outbidding "ambitious" Commonwealth targets, if not renewables poster-child SA, economic basket-case Victoria is targeting 95% renewables by 2035.

China and other real-world superpowers will never play by those kinds of rules. Global energy generation is only about 20% renewables. That'll go much higher, but not near 100%, and is always in a race to keep pace with the increasing demands of endless-growth, plus now the energy-rapacity of AI. Global "energy transition" has slowed.

Net-zero or no net-zero, the Coalition's still appeasing Albo-style central-planning, leaving him comfortably spinning the same old economic fibs as before the election.

Little relief for despised voters…

Peter Dutton went to Election 2025, offering 160,000 net migration, nuclear-inclusive "net-zero", and a serious stab at east-coast gas reservation. Running Labor's "housing supply" line, with no meaningful correction on immigration, the current Ley offer doesn't look any better.