Former Nationals Leader Barnaby Joyce is not waiting for the Liberals to finish their ‘listening tour’ before deciding how to approach Net Zero.

In full possession of his own conscience, Mr Joyce joined Spectator Australia Editor-in-Chief Rowan Dean on his Sunday show, Outsiders, to talk about the political existential crisis of ‘Climate Change’.

Rowan began, ‘We argue on this show that Net Zero will never be met, is a complete disaster, and you are never going to get there… Why are we wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money on what can never work?’

‘I had the joy of saying this to Cabinet colleagues before and they said, Get out of Cabinet! which is what has promptly happened…’ replied Mr Joyce.

‘For our nation, we can’t do this. This is ridiculous! We have to become as powerful as possible, as quickly as possible.

‘In light of the circumstances before us, and they are never more evident than off the coast of this place as we see with live-fire exercises… We need to realise what’s happening here, folks.

‘By physics, it’s not going to work. And the end of this, guys, I hope there are a lot of politicians and bureaucrats who hand in their resignations because this is, as you say, a mission impossible and hurting people.

‘We are de-industrialising Australia. We have lost our plastics industry. We have lost our fertiliser industry. We have lost our heavy-glass manufacturing industry. We are down to two oil refineries. Our concrete industry is on the brink of going…’

‘How did we get here?’ It was a questioned posed to Mr Joyce as the Coalition government were blamed for overseeing a big part of the journey to Net Zero and renewable energy. Even today, the conservative side of politics continues to show enthusiasm for the so-called ‘green’ ‘clean’ energy industry.

Perhaps living in fear of more Teal conquests, the Liberals have been treading water on the issue.

If the Opposition refuses to back away from Net Zero, what option are the Australian people left with at the next election?

‘You’re dead right…’ he admits. ‘We have certainly got our fingerprints all over this disaster.’

Mr Joyce goes on to discuss an epiphany moment about what sacrifices Australia is willing to make, including when it comes to the care of citizens, to continue on the path of Net Zero.

Will pensioners be left without heating? More young people forced to sleep in their cars?

‘At the end of this is the swindle. Billions of dollars going to overseas companies and domestic billionaires. You couldn’t dream this rubbish up … you pay the billionaires twice. The secret subsidies at the start and then what comes out of the power plug at the end.’

Even with subsidies, companies are starting to walk away from projects because the concept is unprofitable and unworkable.

‘It’s almost like a cult…’ Mr Joyce adds. ‘What they do when they can’t win the argument, which they inevitably are losing now because of the price of power, they go back to this quasi-religious statement… The, Oh, you don’t believe in global warming…’

‘The original sin!’ agreed Rowan.

‘That’s it!’

It is worth taking a quick look at the energy plan taken to the election by the Coalition. Their Cleaner Energy Mix statement boasts about reaching Net Zero 2050 goals sooner than Labor.

Nuclear energy is the key to achieving Net Zero emissions sooner. Under the Coalition’s plan, Australia will meet Net Zero emissions by 2050 – one year earlier than Labor – while generating fewer emissions beyond 2050.

By avoiding Labor’s unnecessary overdevelopment on pristine landscapes and farmland, the Coalition ensures a more sustainable and responsible shift from coal to zero-emissions nuclear.

Under Anthony Albanese, emissions are higher now than when the Coalition left office, proving that Labor’s chaotic renewables-only agenda isn’t just expensive, it’s ineffective.

Our plan responsibly integrates renewables, increasing large-scale and wind capacity while protecting regional communities from overdevelopment. At the same time, zero-emissions nuclear energy and gas provide the reliability that Labor’s plan fails to deliver.

Can you see the problem?

In one statement, the Coalition chastises Labor for destroying pristine landscapes and farmland with solar and wind installations. The implication being that these technologies are bad for the environment. Then in the final paragraph, they pledge to expand solar and wind.

This is incoherent policy from a confused party whose broad-church philosophy has been divided to the point of breaking.

More to the point, the Coalition cannot state, with sincerity, the desperate need for nuclear as the pathway to Net Zero and then ditch it seconds later because the left-wing press told them it lost an election.

These are existential ideological policies.

Allegedly.

Flipping policies on the whisper of a focus group while maintaining the Climate Change threat as is the most important item on the policy agenda makes the party look untrustworthy.

This is why commentators keep telling the Coalition to try a bit of honesty and take the path of Barnaby Joyce, Alex Antic, and Matt Canavan who admit that the whole climate house of cards is a con.

Yes, the Coalition played a big role in perpetuating the lie of climate ideology, but if they don’t come clean soon, Labor and the Greens will continue to use this false death cult to undermine Australia’s liberty, prosperity, and sovereignty.

If the Coalition truly are the party that saves the nation, it must dismantle the careers and reputations of those who tried to use climate rhetoric to further themselves.

They are the sacrifices that need to be tossed into the metaphoric volcano to appease the gods.

While some may reply that the former election energy policy was of the Dutton-era and therefore irrelevant, it was co-signed by current Nationals Leader David Littleproud and Deputy Liberal Leader Ted O’Brien. They need to clean this mess up.

‘People know they are being conned,’ said Rowan Dean. ‘They are just not sure how they are being conned. There are hands in their pocket from every direction.’