Flat White Getty Images Flat White 16 June 2025 10:01 AM Senator Matt Canavan announced over the weekend: This afternoon [June 14] the NSW Nationals Party conference voted to abandon the commitment to Net Zero and to advocate for the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. People are sick and tired of Australians having to payContinue reading “Nationals lead fight against Net Zero”
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Cheap renewables’ lie exposed by UK (and Australia’s) soaring energy costs
Date: February 6, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 18 Comments BJORN Lomborg, one of the leading sceptics of the climate crisis narrative, has described the claim that the so-called green energy transition will make cheap electricity for everyone as a myth and “one of the most dangerous self-delusions of the global elite”. Writing in The Telegraph (UK)Continue reading “Cheap renewables’ lie exposed by UK (and Australia’s) soaring energy costs”
Donald Trump’s agenda won’t work for Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton
Paul Kelly The Australian February 1, 2025 Donald Trump has declared a new age of transformation and restoration. While Trump’s revolution will not sweep Australia, its impact will shape the mood and tenor of the coming Albanese-Dutton election contest. Trump’s muscular, nationalistic, executive power mission to “make America great again” will both excite and horrifyContinue reading “Donald Trump’s agenda won’t work for Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton”
Climate schadenfreude
Judith Sloan The Spectator Australia 1st February 2025 Have you noticed that every time there is a natural disaster, the green grifters and climate true believers are wont to use the event to justify even tougher action on climate change? You know the sort of thing. While expressing sympathy for those who have died orContinue reading “Climate schadenfreude”
Camped By a Billabong
Most Australians know the song “Waltzing Matilda”: Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong Under the shade of a coolabah tree … As that swagman was camped under a coolabah, there is a fair bet he was up along or near the River Darling. Many inland streams had Eucalyptus coolabah growing on their banks—andContinue reading “Camped By a Billabong”
Trump Dumps the Paris Agreement: Is it a Big Deal?
Tilak Doshi The Daily Sceptic 28 January 2025 According to the UK’s Telegraph, just hours after President Trump issued executive orders to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, Ed Miliband, the British Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, “warned” Mr Trump that the rise of Net Zero is “unstoppable”. TheContinue reading “Trump Dumps the Paris Agreement: Is it a Big Deal?”
Environmentalism as Anti-Humanism
Ethan Redekop Quadrant Online January 27, 2025 At present, there is fierce debate in Canadian politics surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s implementation of a carbon tax. Federal opposition leader Pierre Poilievre has made the repeal of Trudeau’s carbon tax the crux of his campaign to become prime minister, citing the rising cost of living andContinue reading “Environmentalism as Anti-Humanism”
How our blinkered leaders created a gas import absurdity
Judith Sloan The Australian January 28, 2025 I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks it’s passing strange – more than passing strange – that Australia is about to become an importer of liquefied natural gas as well as an exporter. Of course, intra-industry trade between countries is quite common but, in the main,Continue reading “How our blinkered leaders created a gas import absurdity”
Trump Withdrawing From the Paris Climate Agreement May be an Epoch Defining Event
Ben Pile The Daily Sceptic 22 January 22, 2025 As needs no retelling here, this week saw the return of Donald Trump to the Whitehouse. Among many of his first acts were important and far-reaching interventions on climate and energy, continuing where he left office in 2020 and re-reversing the changes he made in hisContinue reading “Trump Withdrawing From the Paris Climate Agreement May be an Epoch Defining Event”
Globalists Doomed as Trump Cuts U.S Funding to WEF & UN Agenda
Frank Bergman Slay News January 21, 2025 President Donald Trump has just dealt a devastating blow to the globalist agenda by signing executive orders to pull American taxpayer funding from the “climate change” and “global health” schemes led by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and United Nations (UN). Shortly after his inauguration on Monday, TrumpContinue reading “Globalists Doomed as Trump Cuts U.S Funding to WEF & UN Agenda”
Labor’s huge call on gas is economic sabotage
Andrew Bolt Herald Sun January 19, 2025 Donald Trump promised Americans he’d “drill, baby, drill” for gas the day he’s sworn in as President. In contrast, the Albanese government last week announced it would ban, baby, ban. Talk about economic sabotage. On Friday, Industry Minister Ed Husic said he was stopping Asset Energy from exploringContinue reading “Labor’s huge call on gas is economic sabotage”
All eyes on Dutton as he takes on ‘the worst PM since Whitlam’
Dennis Shanahan The Australian January 17, 2025 Suddenly, all eyes are on Peter Dutton. Yes, 2025 is an election year with a poll to be held within months and he is the Opposition Leader, but there is more to the strength and tone of the focus than just the usual uptick in interest in theContinue reading “All eyes on Dutton as he takes on ‘the worst PM since Whitlam’”
The media resent Dutton’s patriotism pledge
Flat White Getty Images Flat White 15 January 2025 1:23 PM Who is spearheading the political narrative of Australia? Is it the robust debate between Coalition and Labor – the elected (if not ideologically unreliable) duopoly that pass the crown between themselves every three years? Or is it the ravenous press, whose ranks are padded-outContinue reading “The media resent Dutton’s patriotism pledge”
Scientists Advance Bill Gates’ Plan to Stop ‘Global Warming’ by Blocking Sun
David Lindfield Slay News January 16, 2025 Scientists around the world are advancing efforts to fulfill Bill Gates’ plan to supposedly stop “global warming” by blocking out light and heat from the Sun. Silicon Valley elites are throwing their financial weight behind a controversial scheme to fight “climate change” — worldwide weather modification. One ofContinue reading “Scientists Advance Bill Gates’ Plan to Stop ‘Global Warming’ by Blocking Sun”
72,000 insurance policies cancelled before the Los Angeles fires, 12,000 structures gone
Date: January 16, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 10 Comments January 13, 2025 Dr William Mount above: However, in these home…those steel safes MELTED to the ground… ALL OF THE STEEL GUN SAFES melted to the ground …while the trees outside were not burned. Unless you had a blue roof, then your house was not melted. SteelContinue reading “72,000 insurance policies cancelled before the Los Angeles fires, 12,000 structures gone”
The haters are losing the Australia Day fight, and that’s great news for us as a nation
James Morrow The Herald Sun January 15, 2025 Is it just me or does the annual Australia Day fight feel different this year. Normally this summertime warm-up lap for the coming year’s public debates follows a pretty set pattern. First, one or another council or corporation backs off from the day, saying they don’t wantContinue reading “The haters are losing the Australia Day fight, and that’s great news for us as a nation”
Updates on California fires, Gov Newsom has not called for military aid
Date: January 13, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 9 Comments California Has Not Requested Help From Pentagon to Fight Los Angeles Fires, Spokesperson Says | 12 Jan 2025 | Hundreds of Marines and ten Navy helicopters stand ready, but California has not requested help from the Pentagon to fight the raging fires in Los Angeles, according to aContinue reading “Updates on California fires, Gov Newsom has not called for military aid”
Cold, hard energy lessons for Australia in UK’s grim winter’s tale
Nick Cater The Australian January 13, 2025 Britain’s last coal-fired power station closed at the end of September, throwing households to the mercy of the weather. Turbines and cooling towers at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire are about to be demolished to make way for a zero-carbon technology and energy hub. Sadly, Britain’s green activists have noContinue reading “Cold, hard energy lessons for Australia in UK’s grim winter’s tale”
My 9 Laments About the Climate Change that Caused the LA Fires
James Macpherson Jan 13, 2025 The devastating Los Angeles fires were entirely the fault of Climate Change. Here are my eight laments …
Cape York disappearing into the mire of indigenous and United Nations ownership to create an Aboriginal state
Date: January 12, 2025Author: Editor, cairnsnews 10 Comments Cool fire burning on Cape York which leads to widespread vegetation thickening laying waste to once productive land By *Jim O’Toole Cape York Peninsula, Queensland’s iconic piece of paradise has been gradually handed over by Labor to Aborigines to create a separate indigenous state north of 16thContinue reading “Cape York disappearing into the mire of indigenous and United Nations ownership to create an Aboriginal state”