GOOGLE FAIRYTALES, MATE, THEY FEATURE MANY POTS OF GOLD

“GOOGLE it, Mate” said the mischievous Green’s leader Adam Bandt when asked a question relating to wages as he launched into his Party’s fairytale vision of how he would lead our nation when he holds the balance of power.

If you are going to argue wages you should know the wage price index (1.9%), if employment, the unemployment rate (4%) and inflation or housing, the current Reserve Bank interest rate (0.10%). And I didn’t need to Google it.

Bandt’s flippant remark combined with his promised pot of gold at the end of the rainbow soon loses its lustre when you take a close look at his policies and take on our national security.

Clothed in a green mantle of environmental protection, something we all care about, Bandt’s rant goes into his fairytale perception of equality that has all the hallmarks of Carl Marx socialism.

We live in a nation of opportunity. Just look at the migrants who came here with little but hope, especially after WWII and made good. Bandt’s solution is to accommodate the lowest common denominator at taxpayers’ expense while punishing success. The outcome of that erodes the desire to “Reach for the stars” which Bandt claims he aspires to.

With the expansionist ambitions of Russia and China threatening the free world by flexing their military, economic and trade muscles, Bandt wants to banish our second greatest export industry, coal worth 100 billion dollars this year. He will replace it with taxing corporations, millionaires and savings from renewables.

Bandt does not consider China a threat, instead, prioritises his position on global warming. China is the greatest polluter, and we one of the smallest. We buy most of our renewables from China, increasing their GDP. Our money helps fund China’s expansionist ambitions and Bandt seems comfortable with that. Or does he even consider it in his lust for power?

China has already demonstrated that it can buy a government to achieve its expansionist aims.

If we accept Bandt’s position and the predictions on climate change, most of which have proven wrong, what will come first, China’s and Russia’s expansionist ambitions or the predicted effects of climate change? What should we deal with first because clearly economic reality excludes both?

Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are not young men. Their ambition is unlikely to wait for an extended period. Worse still, when Russia upgraded its nuclear readiness, the free world’s major players blinked while the people of Ukraine may be the first innocents to suffer for our resolve to assist them at arm’s length.

Bandt may see no threat in the belief that in enforcing his socialist policies China may take a different approach to Australia. I love this nation of ours, our way of life and the opportunity it presents to all prepared to take it, so no thanks Adam I stopped believing in a pot of gold and fairytales at age 9.