The Department of Home Affairs is responsible for a range of portfolios relating to our national interests, including national security, emergency management, counter terrorism policy, cyber security, and so on.<\/p>\n
Yet during the recent senate estimates questioning, the head of the Department of Home Affairs noted that the department was now also dealing with the adverse effects of human-induced \u201cclimate change\u201d.<\/p>\n
Excuse me? Intrigued, this curious assertion led me to ask whether the department seriously considered climate change to be one of its areas of concern.<\/p>\n
The response I received confirmed that it did, and that the department considered it to be a fact that climate change is human induced.<\/p>\n
Apparently, the science is settled, and the debate is over.<\/p>\n
The National Resilience Taskforce, recently established by the department, lists one of its priorities as \u201cidentifying and assessing national security climate impacts and risks and developing policies to address critical national security vulnerabilities resulting from or exacerbated by climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n
How, exactly, climate change poses a threat to national security, and why the department has reached this conclusion, is unclear, but it appears many of our departments have internalised the United Nations\u2019 Net Zero by 2050 Agenda, which proposes a total revolution of our energy industry.<\/p>\n
Shortly after this estimates exchange, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen MP took to Twitter to denounce me for \u201cdenying that climate change has national security implications.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, some members of the Australian public responded with their thoughts, and they were overwhelmingly unsupportive of the Minister\u2019s finger-wagging. In fact, it may have been one of the greatest (or saddest, depending on how you look at it) Twitter ratios I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n
You can watch my response to that tweet in my own social media video below:<\/p>\n
The responses to Bowen\u2019s tweet were very clear: Everyday Australians do not want Labor and the U.N.\u2019s Net Zero Agenda, and they don\u2019t want our Home Affairs Department wasting their time and resources on \u201dclimate change\u201d.<\/p>\n
Rather, what they want is the Labor government to address the cost-of-living crisis (being driven by the blind push for renewable energy) which continues to become worse.<\/p>\n
Australians want a government which puts Australia\u2019s national interests first rather than the interests of renewables investors. They want leadership with the courage to say what people are really thinking, rather than repeating the left-wing dogma of woke, secular universities and Davos elites.<\/p>\n
Climate change is not a national security threat, but the U.N.\u2019s Net Zero Agenda is.<\/p>\n
Australia has every reason to be a leader in the global energy market, with our access to clean coal and the largest reserves of uranium on earth, while our carbon emissions are already miniscule.<\/p>\n
In the 1970\u2019s, the climate experts at the U.N. were telling us that a global ice age was going to kill us all by the year 2,000. Climate alarmism was nonsense then, as it is now.<\/p>\n
We need bold leadership that will call out the lies of the climate alarmists. If the Minister\u2019s Twitter is anything to go by, Australia is craving it.<\/p>\n
Your sincerely,<\/p>\n
Alex Antic
\nLiberal Senator for South Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Department of Home Affairs is responsible for a range of portfolios relating to our national interests, including national security, emergency management, counter terrorism policy, cyber security, and so on. Yet during the recent senate estimates questioning, the head of the Department of Home Affairs noted that the department was now also dealing with the … <\/p>\n