Dear Editor,
It seems lately that every time Barnaby Joyce gets a chance, he delivers a rhetorical rant against renewables. While there is no empirical evidence to support his ravings, there is, however, a valid reason for it.
That is the time-honored tactic of the Liberal National Party (LNP) of dividing the community, making one group appear the victim and the other the aggressor, with the LNP being the savior.
Joyce portrays urban dwellers as enjoying the benefits of renewable energy at the expense of their rural cousins. He claims that farmland is being ruined and roads destroyed, all to benefit city people. Joyce, of course, will save the rural community if they vote for him.
Classic propaganda. Create an aggressor, a victim, and a savior out of nothing.
He attempts to validate this approach by claiming that, while the Liberals received the drubbing of a lifetime in the recent Federal election, the Nationals came out unscathed. Not quite — the seat of Calare that the Nationals won in 2022 was lost to independent Andrew Gee, a former National. Their deputy leader in the Senate, Perin Davey, lost her New South Wales Senate spot. And, of course, Jacinta Price took her National spot in the Senate and gave it to the Liberals, leaving the Nationals one short of party status in the upper house.
Joyce is trying to save some of the furniture for the next election because the Nationals are worried. The community generally sees the LNP as one party, and the shellacking that the Liberals received was due to National Party policy as much as their own. The Liberal strategy of taking outer urban seats from Labor failed dismally, so at the next election, their best bet is to shed themselves of National Party policies or take National seats for their own. The conundrum being that the Liberals and Nationals need each other to govern, as there has only ever been one majority Liberal Federal government; every other time, it has been in minority with National support.
The Liberals are in a sinking boat with the Nationals and floundering in the doldrums without them.
The Nationals are worried, and they are worried about the Liberals.
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So completely out of touch!!
Barnaby Joyce you are so out of touch 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I’d like to know what’s in it for him. He doesn’t seem to have a problem with valuable farming land, and water supplies, being taken and contaminated by mining and CSG. Just renewables.
Barnaby is Gina’s ventriloquist dummy. ‘What’s that Gina’ ? Neither give a stuff about their families so why would they care about the future? Humanity bypass long ago.
More’s the point, city folk are doing nothing to reduce or ameliorate their carbon footprint explosion and country folk are paying the price.
Have a look at why the LNP lost so many seats in the election, start with some new energy ideas, too late for criticism.
Considering he celebrated the region becoming a REZ when he was in Government I agree with the only reason for turning against it is to create division and have his constituents fighting. I disagree with the analysis on Nats losing seats. Andrew Gee will hold on to Calare as long as his constituents continue to see him as a Nat, otherwise he will receive the same fate as Tony Windsor did here. Perin Davey lost her position in the senate because she is in WA, and this century WA, like VIC, appears to really hate all forms of the LNP.
I reckon the rail way v the rail trail war is a perfect reflection of voters in (at least) our electorate. The ‘youth crime’ issue is another perfect example. Everyone’s egos think they are correct and the egos wont let the parties sit down and find common ground, they appear to prefer the fight. Barnaby be still my beating heart Joyce’s political behaviour seems to mirror this. I wonder what came first, did we lead him or did he lead us … He wants to be seen as the leader of the fight, he wants to be able to deliver nastiness to those who disagree and is thrilled when we mimic this nastiness. He and his fans (#notallfans 😉 ) want fights, they don’t want collaboration and they don’t want to look out for all our best interests. Barnaby be still my beating heart Joyce is a perfect reflection of our electorate’s attitudes, and this is what we need to change.
I think the title indicates a bias whereby Barnaby is somehow totally against renewable energy but the truth is he is gravely concerned about the effects of renewable energy on our precious farmland.
There is a massive difference!!
In order to be taken seriously, the author of this piece should at least get the basics right.
Perin Davey is not from Western Australia. She is from Conargo NSW.
The Nationals did not lose the seat of Calare to independent Andrew Gee. Gee was the incumbent member.
What makes Barnaby’s opinion any less relevant than someone that thinks this so called ‘clean energy’ idea is better?
Barnaby did just fine in the ejection, with a swing TO him. Doesn’t scream out of touch with his electorate!
If leftys and greenies cannot see the irony of we’re 1% of the world’s total emissions and we’re wrecking our economy and future,driving heavy industries to the wall and losing our sovereignty and independence trying to do something that will have zero effect on how the climate changes while our prosperity is shipped overseas daily?but that must constitute some sort of sense on the left,Barnaby is right
He will do everything gina tells him to do
Poor man