Pea-brained Greens

摘要

At a recent forestry meeting in Australia, one robustly wotded placard read: "Greens: it's about jobs, not frogs, you dopey bastards!". Coincidentally, the CEO of steelmaker Blue Scope has just announced that the Australian manufacturing industry and jobs are "under siege". A bit late I thought, as it has been under siege for some time, predominantly by the Green policies pervading every level of government for the last ten years, obstructing and penalising every aspect of business. After World War Two, Germany was hit by a "De-industrialisation Policy" imposed by the US, UK and Russia to prevent them from starting WW3. Australia has been on the receiving end of a de-industrialisation policy for the last decade, but what did we do wrong?