While Angus Taylor is telling us "Net-Zero doesn't mean no Carbon emissions" Andrew Forrest is going full tilt renewables.
Andrew Forrest and Mukesh Ambani, the richest men in India and Australia respectively, have just gone public with renewable energy deals on a scale previously unthinkable. As the Coalition ramps up its fossil fuel subsidies, Tim Buckley unpacks the staggering foray by Fortescue Future Industries into green hydrogen and Reliance Industries into solar.
Billionaire disrupters: Forrest, Ambani’s new energy onslaught leaves carbon-corrupt politicians in the dust
Unfortunately, the “big lie” recipe seems to have found its place in Australia. There is no better example than the recent resignation of former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian as a result of ICAC revealing it was investigating whether she had been involved in ‘a breach of public trust’ between 2012 and 2018 because of her relationship with disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire. The mainstream media and media personalities have tried to portray the former Premier as a victim of the “nasty ICAC” which is really a stooge for disrupting “good” government.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is quoted saying that the former Premier had ‘a lot more to contribute to Australian politics’ and that ‘she has tremendous support both in the Liberal Party and, I think right across NSW’.
John Roskam, CEO of the Institute of Public Affairs, a right-wing organisation, opined that:
‘A grubby political deal is not necessarily a corrupt one and it should be the voters that decide whether it is or not, not lawyers applying their own subjective and vague criteria of what’s “corrupt”… The public should decide whether its trust has been breached, not bureaucrats.’
Berejiklian had no problems in slamming ICAC accusing it of pursuing her over “ historic matters” that had already been investigated and explained.
Non of which actually reflects the truth and Morrison is now using it to stop putting a Federal and Independant ICAC into place. Rather he's going to put a toothless body in situ instead. An Australian "big lie" is coming our way.
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