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Memo to Coalition: take heed of Trump

By Stephen Saunders - posted Monday, 29 September 2025


Albanese's own speech to the UN was equally predictable – a return-serve of UN propaganda . It was Trump who spoke more for Albanese's people.

Unlikely net zero

Linking mass migration and net zero, Trump understands these, as two sides of the same pro-China coin. The UN coin, that seeks to undermine Western prosperity.

It goes without saying, Albanese Australia is a world leader, for unyielding devotion to mass migration and net zero.

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Australia's 45% population growth since 2000 is unmatched among wealthy nations. Coming off the back of a flagrantly misleading "climate risk" report, now there's our 62-70% emissions reduction (compare with China's 7-10% ) target.

This is vanishingly unlikely, even upping Australia's habitually creative climate-accounting to the next level. But it's extremely likely, that Australia's prosperity and living standards, can be much damaged in the striving.

Net zero is fallacy not science, the latest distraction whereby Australian politicians can further depreciate the natural environment and local standards of living.

And yet, both the US and EU have reduced emissions. The former is largely due to switching fossil fuels, from coal unto gas. In his speech , Trump referred to the latter, if not in the kindliest fashion.

Nevertheless, it's also true that five global graphs, those for population, GDP or consumption, emissions, CO2 levels, and temperatures, they keep trending upwards.

Yet through the UN "alchemy" of renewable-energies and carbon-captures, the sixth graph of "net" global emissions can cancel out China and India. And bend it like Beckham, down to an imagined "zero".

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To rub it in, re-elected Albanese hosted a return visit from UN climate-supremo and China-apologist, bovver-boy Simon Stiell. Our ambitious climate target is a "no brainer" to reap "colossal" rewards. Or else we'll have no fruit-and-vegetables.

Having lost its mind, Australian governance welcomes this UN grandstanding, scapegoats Trump. Sure, Australian voters nominally want "climate action". But they're reluctant to pay for it, and would rather have the cheap energy that Australia should have in spades.

For the Coalition, Trump is a unicorn

I amuse myself, with listicles of unlikely "unicorns" that could potentially wean Australia away, from its extraordinary reliance on Big Australia.

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Stephen Saunders is a former APS public servant and consultant.

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