It’s time that
Australians took a long hard look at the man whose science fiction fantasies
are tampering with our pay packets. From July 1st, Australia’s economic wellbeing
and financial prospects are beholden to the delusional whims of a man who, it
would appear, is clearly a few trees short of an old-growth forest. Bob Brown’s
ravings at a town hall packed with fellow “Earthians”, where he laid out his
plans for a Global parliament (in which an Australian representative would have
about as much clout as a Green in Campbell Newman’s Queensland) at the same
time as lamenting the extinction of extra-terrestrials due to climate change
(yep, seriously) would be disturbing if they were from some fringe activist or obscure
backbencher but are beyond alarming when they come from our de facto Deputy PM.
Make no mistake; there
would be no $23 a tonne carbon tax under this government if Bob Brown hadn’t
insisted on it. Yet in all the acres of analysis of climate change, endless editorials
and opinion pieces selling or deriding the carbon tax, the talkback, the
adverts, the rallies and the convoys, any in-depth analysis of Bob Brown’s
ideology, track record and personal beliefs is virtually non-existent. It’s as
if as a nation we embraced Dianetics without bothering to check out L. Ron
Hubbard.
Although it is
tempting simply to laugh at him, a harmless clown he is not. Apart from Gerard
Henderson, Chris Uhlmann, Miranda Devine, Andrew Bolt and (in this issue) Peter
Costello, our mainstream media – perhaps intimidated by Brown’s hysterical
“hate-media” campaign, or simply taken in by the Green’s phony morality - refuses
to scrutinize this dangerous politician and his anti-productive, anti-growth
ideas. It’s time Australians took a closer look at Bob Brown before he takes us
all to La La Land.
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