Family First welcomes Coalition grass roots members following Family First's lead on dropping net zero.
In the past two weeks the South Australian Liberals, New South Wales Nationals and the Country Liberal Party members in the Northern Territory have voted to drop net zero in defiance of their leaders who remain wedded to the economy-harming policy.
Family First notes that resolutions passed at state and territory gatherings are not binding on the Coalition parliamentarians and Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are yet to comment on their members' rebellion.
Family First is pleased to be one of the key minor parties leading the debate on rational energy policy for Australia and in the national interest urges the Coalition leadership to start taking the fight up to Labor.
Peter Dutton lost his lead in the polls after he refused to join the in-coming US administration in dropping net zero and withdrawing from the Paris climate accords.
Former UK Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair has also now recognised that net zero is harmful and unachievable.
The Blairite/Trumpian consensus on net zero should cause the Coalition leadership to act.
Family First agrees with former deputy prime minister and Nationals leader John Anderson that politicians on both sides have not told Australians the truth about the damaging impacts of net zero.
Anderson's recent podcast with veteran journalist Chris Uhlmann makes it clear that zero emissions by 2050 is unachievable and unaffordable and will only continue to drive cost of living up and jobs out of Australia.
Net zero, which the Coalition foolishly signed up to under Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce, has done more economic damage to Australians than any other bipartisan policy.
Family First calls on the Coalition leadership to listen to its members and to mainstream Australians and ditch net zero immediately.
If Australians are to recover their living standards immediate steps must be taken to cancel solar farms and windmill factories and get more coal, gas and nuclear energy into the grid.
Family First's vision is for Australians to prosper from the competitive advantage our abundant resources offer but sadly this advantage is being squandered by Labor and the Coalition.
Energy will be a key focus of Family First's up-coming National Conference with geologist and global boiling sceptic Professor Ian Plimer and energy policy expert Gerard Holland from the Page Research Centre speaking.
