In which the Caterist does the usual, and the pond heeds the Akker Dakker call ...

 

Three days to go and then the pond is out of here, as the siren song of the Australian Athens lures the pond south ...

The pond will depart with a mystery lingering in the mind ...

In a rare, distracted moment, the pond had landed on the Nine papers, and this story  headed Dutton to pull Australia out of Paris Agreement if elected (paywall) ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has signalled he will scrap the nation’s legally binding 2030 climate target and risk Australia’s membership of the Paris Agreement on climate change, following his vow to deploy nuclear energy to reach net zero by 2050.
Dutton declared on Saturday that a Coalition government would not pursue Australia’s legally binding climate target to cut emissions by 43 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030 – a significant escalation of Australia’s long-running climate policy war ahead of the next federal election due by May next year.
Dutton told The Australian on Saturday that the government’s renewable goal was unattainable and “there’s no sense in signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving”.

Sure enough, reptiles Dennis Shanahan, and the lesser Kelly, Joe, had published on the Saturday, the 7th, at 9.30 pm, an EXCLUSIVE, Peter Dutton puts carbon emissions target on Labor’s back, which read in part ...

Peter Dutton will go to the next election opposing Labor’s 43 per cent carbon emissions reduction target by 2030 but keeping to zero emissions by 2050, opting for a radically different energy policy to Anthony Albanese that prioritises more gas in the short term and nuclear in the long term.
The Opposition Leader declared there was “no sense in ­signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving” and promised the Coalition in government would not “destroy” agriculture, manufacturing and investment nor create sovereign risk with trading partners by agreeing to unachievable climate change ­targets.
Mr Dutton said he would take a different gas policy from Labor to the next election to ensure a successful shorter-term transition to renewable power and clarified that nuclear power, which would not be delivered until the 2040s, would be aimed at achieving the net-zero target by mid-century.
In an interview with The Weekend Australian to mark his second year as leader of the Liberal Party, Mr Dutton said: “They (Labor) just have no hope of achieving the targets and there’s no sense signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving.

This had produced some jolly headlines and spiffing jokes amongst chums and on Sky of all places ... (down the page a bit) ...

And then suddenly the pond was reading another reptile EXCLUSIVE, this one by by Geoff Chambers published 10:01 PM, 9th June 2024, headed Peter Dutton won’t quit Paris agreement and net zero, with the opening flurry ...

Peter Dutton will not leave the Paris climate change agreement and remains committed to the Coalition’s pledge of net zero by 2050, despite attempts by the Albanese government to wedge Liberal and Nationals MPs over near-term emissions reduction targets. 

Further down it went on ...

..In an interview with The Weekend Australian, Mr Dutton said the Coalition would oppose Labor’s 43 per cent emissions reduction target by 2030 because there was “no sense in signing up to targets you don’t have any prospect of achieving”.

Future Fund chairman and former Labor minister Greg Combet, who plans to step up investment in renewable energy, cautioned that any pullback on a 2030 target could damage investment returns for green projects.

“Any policy that undermines replacement of fossil fuels by renewable energy will likely impact the investment case for renewable energy projects,” Mr Combet told The Australian.

Mr Bowen accused the Coalition of preparing to leave the Paris accord and join “Libya, Yemen and Iran”.

“The Paris accord is crystal clear. There can be no backsliding. If you reduce your target, then you’re in breach of the Paris accord,” he said.

“The next election will be a referendum on energy policy. We agree that energy policy is economic policy. But when Peter Dutton is so intent on a fantasy nuclear unicorn, he is risking not only Australia’s emissions reductions targets … but he’s also very much risking job creating investment in Australia.”

Senior moderate Liberals on Sunday backed Mr Dutton’s commitments to remain in the Paris agreement, support net zero by 2050 and pursue nuclear energy technologies. “A lot of us thought nuclear power is our point of difference with Labor on energy and it’s a fight worth having … Labor set the targets and it’s up to them to meet them,” one said.

Another Liberal moderate said it would be “disastrous” for the Coalition to pull out of Paris because “people would think we’ve learnt nothing and haven’t modernised as a party”.

“We don’t need to be having an argument over targets that Labor set. We should say this is our plan on energy and the pressure is on Labor to meet their own targets. As far as we’d want to go is to say we’d review all of these targets if and when we’re in government. Don’t create a point of difference to campaign against us … keep the onus on them. We don’t need to provide that level of detail yet.”

Mr Dutton has resisted pressure from some conservative Coalition MPs to dump net zero and consider quitting the Paris agreement if Donald Trump wins the US election in November and abandons the global pact.

So one moment Paris was under the gun, the next it wasn't ...

Meanwhile, the usual suspects had lined up for the holyday read ...

The pond simply couldn't stomach the bromancer doing "moment of hope amid horror of Gaza", and the rest of the reptiles were distracted by Petey boy and Nine...

At one point there was a triptych of Petey boy terror ...

... and there was also a trio, quickly brought into alignment by the pond to marvel at his exit ...

The pond had simply no interest in any of this, and hoped that a decent parliamentary pension would ease the pain.

Luckily the Caterist was at hand to explain everything ...

Yep, it was another rant about renewables, and there's been so many the pond long ago lost count ...

Meanwhile in useless data that turns up collated by bots ...

Lucky that Ireland, Italy, Belgium and the UK aren't part of Europe ...

Naturally there were also visual distractions, including the standard portrait of terrifying whale killers ...

The Caterist was feeling his non-renewable oats...

There's nothing like a surge of far right wing parties to inspire a Caterist, though the pond wished he'd provided some kind of segue to the weekend's infallible Pope ...

Meanwhile, the rant continued ...

Of course, it's a refusal to nuke the country to save the planet, German edition. How could the pond have missed that one?

And so to the final gobbet of rant ...

What fun to see the "sick man of Europe" meme revived, when the pond thought it had long ago passed its use by date, especially as little England is no longer part of Europe ...

It was only when the pond saw a cartoon by Rowe that it was enlightened ...

What a splendid visual reference and it seems that the immortal Rowe prefers the white horse version of Napoleon Crossing the Alps ...

And so to a hasty check of what was left over...

Cackling Claire ranting at the NDIS? That was in hand ... just like other matters ...

As for Fergo agitated by the gongs, the pond decided it could better finish up by rectifying a dereliction of duty.

Who knew that the mighty Akker Dakker still had devotees? 

It had been a long time since the pond paid any attention to Bunter of the Terror and knew what must be done ... especially as the lizard Oz had ignored D-day, but Akker Dakker had been on the case ...

Piers Akerman: For courage and leadership, a pity Albo and Co don’t follow the lead of those D-Day heroes, Eighty years since D-Day and the dwindling band of veterans reminded us of the courage of those who led the charge for freedom in stark contrast to those who profess to be leaders today, writes Piers Akerman.

It was like slipping back into warm, comfie slippers ...

Eighty years since D-Day and the dwindling band of veterans in France reminded us of the courage and leadership of those who led the charge for freedom in stark contrast to those who profess to be leaders today.

World War II produced characters of such extraordinary strength that we still look back in awe. Today, we avert our gaze from prime ministers and presidents rather than view their shame.

It took prolonged pro-Palestinian protests and attacks on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s own Western Sydney electorate office to coax a belated acknowledgment of the role of the Greens in the anti-Semitic campaigns that have been a disgusting feature of Australian life since October 7’s massacres, rapes and kidnaps of Israeli civilians.

For nearly nine months, he turned a blind eye to this suppurating cancer in our nation with its roots in the riotous Opera House Islamist celebrations that erupted even before Israel launched its first retaliatory attack on the forces of the Gaza-based terrorist organisation Hamas.

Cowed by the possible repercussions from Muslims in Labor-held electorates, Albanese and most Labor MPs said nothing or, worse, lent their tacit support to the mob.

The Greens, now subjected to a bipartisan examination by Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, openly supported and encouraged the pro-Palestinian mobs as they rampaged through the streets and set up threatening camps at universities.

The vice-chancellors have been just as weak, capitulating to the demands of the demented activists.

The taxpayer-funded ABC and SBS provide platforms for the unsupported opinions of an incestuous political academic journalistic elite.

As Winston Churchill said while US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was slowly swinging public opinion toward supporting Britain in its darkest hour, “the decisions of our democracy may be slowly arrived at” but when they were made, they were acted upon.

FDR didn’t draw red lines or issue hollow threats after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour drew the US into the conflict. He stated resolutely that “an attack against liberty in one part of the world is a threat against liberty in another part of the world. If liberty is destroyed in Britain, this constitutes a real and immediate threat to liberty in the United States”.

Albanese, stuck in his Tory-hating undergraduate mindset, fails to understand that FDR’s statement is as true today as it was in 1941, even if the threat comes from different quarters.

In our region, China is pushing for control of the South China Sea and the Western Pacific. In reply, Australia is committed to funding a rugby league team in Papua New Guinea and campaigning for the rights of LGBTQ+ and other alphabetical formulations.

With an under-resourced army, navy and air force, the issue of personal pronouns takes precedence.

The most pressing issue for most Australians is the cost of living, exacerbated by the horrendous subsidies being doled out to unreliable wind and solar infrastructure that lacks the capacity of our reliable coal-fired power plants.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ economic blueprint, which owes more to the former Soviet Union’s disastrous gosplans than reality, has been written off by most credentialed economists, just as the NDIS under minister Bill Shorten has been shown to be a multibillion-dollar failure.

The farcical excuses of Immigration Minister Andrew Giles for his disastrous release from detention of murderers, rapists and assorted other criminals, coupled with the rantings of Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen against lifting the ban on discussion of reliable nuclear energy, show there is nothing to recommend this rabble.Any review of this government’s culpability and serial ineptitude raises the question of whether it is criminally incompetent.

Piers Akerman is an opinion columnist with The Sunday Telegraph. He has extensive media experience, including in the US and UK, and has edited a number of major Australian newspapers.

Not satisfied? Not sated by that talk of the 'leets? There was plenty more ...

Akerman: We can’t continue to be divided by race, religion as we face greatest global test in 80 years

Australia cannot continue to be split by race and religion if we are to meet the challenges we face, writes Piers Akerman.

And so to the task of dividing the country by religion, an easy job for Bunter of the Terror ...

Australia has never been more vulnerable internally and externally since World War II.

Most millennials don’t have a clue what are the real threats. The febrile nature of political leadership in our greatest ally has been highlighted by the dubious conviction of former US president Donald Trump by a politicised New York court.

If Trump wins in the November election, he will certainly be distracted by the numerous court suits that Democrat states have brought against him and will be unable to give his attention to the foreign crises reaching a boiling point. The near certainty of the election of UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in July does not instil any confidence or certainty in the delivery of Britain’s contribution to AUKUS.

Worse, UK Labour is as riven by identity politics and as beholden to Islamists as is Anthony Albanese’s ALP. None of our enemies regards identity politics as an issue, but here the use of personal pronouns is of such supreme importance, even joking about them can pose a threat to employment and reputation.

Starmer has already indicated his government would implement green-Left policies, such as giving the vote to 16-year-olds and implementing a green energy plan that would end what remains of UK manufacturing and send power prices soaring. Sound familiar?

It is as lunatic a plan as the expensive and inefficient unreliable wind and solar program Energy Minister Chris Bowen is hellbent on inflicting on Australia. Adolescent truant Greta Thunberg may as well have written Starmer’s and Bowen’s platforms.

While our great and powerful friends are entangled in domestic problems, China is intent on expanding its hegemony in our region and we have no viable defence capability.

Israel is bravely committed to eliminating the monstrous, murderous and barbaric forces of Hamas but the pro-Palestinian lobby’s false narrative has swept through Western universities where Left-wing academics actively promote anti-Semitic tropes.

They aren’t alone. Our ABC has repeatedly shown its anti-Israel bias and reluctance to acknowledge the facts of the October 7 massacre as painfully laid out in last week’s Sky News documentary hosted by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg.

The total lack of leadership from Anthony Albanese and his failure to accept any responsibility for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles’s release of murderers and rapists into the community has again highlighted his lack of any redeeming ethical traits. Constantly hedging his bets, Albanese has always placed his petty political goals against the greater national good.

Sacrificing our foundational ties to the state of Israel to placate radical Muslims in Labor electorates is utterly reprehensible, but typical of the abominable divisive behaviour we now expect from our Prime Minister.

There should be consequences for those Muslims who rallied to celebrate the rape and murder of civilians last October, but there has been none. Supporters of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, continue to occupy university campuses and disrupt Australians.

The mosques where so-called imams exhort rabid followers to eliminate Jews should be bulldozed to demonstrate that this hate speech has no place in Australia.

Our nation has striven since its earliest settlement to promote the concept of the fair go, not always successfully, but certainly not under this government while Jewish people are now fearful of assault and in fear. This government is promoting division, not unity.

We cannot continue to be split by race and religion if we are to meet the challenges we face. There must be consequences for this contemptible government’s actions.

Piers Akerman is an opinion columnist with The Sunday Telegraph. He has extensive media experience, including in the US and UK, and has edited a number of major Australian newspapers.

Yep, there's nothing like uniting a country by race and religion ... by denouncing a religion with a significant number of followers ...

And so to wrap up proceedings, a Herbert cartoon which explains everything, with the pond wanting this machine to be mass produced and on hand in every home ...