I AM not a member of any political party: Liberals, Nationals, Labor or the Greens. Each demand 100 per cent allegiance to the party line, a requirement I find an impossible ask.
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I would probably define myself as centre-left but not too left - well inside middle ground Australia.
That puts me among the 10 to 20pc of Australians who are potentially swinging voters as opposed to those who are rusted-on party voters.
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I have never forgiven the Greens for scuttling a carbon tax a decade ago.
Do you remember that Kevin Rudd and opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull came to an agreement to support such a tax?
Turnbull was rolled by Tony Abbott on December 1, 2009. Nevertheless, in the Senate, Liberal senators Sue Boyce and Judith Troeth bravely crossed the floor on December 2 and gave Labor sufficient support for the bill had the Greens voted in favour.
Alas, they didn't.
Can you imagine the Greens in bed with Tony Abbott - they were - and between them it has resulted in an additional 218 million tonnes of carbon pollution since 2010.
Since then our annual emissions have climbed massively: a mighty miscalculation by the Greens for which they have yet to repent.
Three prime ministers later and compromised policies based on politics rather than science have left the Morrison Government between a rock and a hard place now that President Biden has been elected to office.
Biden brings with him a radical shift in policy that seeks to combat global warming and climate change as an existential threat to humankind.
The slightly left-leaning USA Democrats are hand in hand with England's Conservative party under Boris Johnson.
Scott Morrison's language is already changing. The Labor Party is finally recognising too that the transition to renewables needs to be handled so that justice for coalminers in Queensland and the Hunter Valley is a rock-solid guarantee as the economy transitions.
Labor is now saying that plainly in a way that Bill Shorten was unable to articulate.
PM Morrison can no longer be King Canute demanding that the tide stops coming in.
Furthermore, the European Union will be introducing a carbon tariff by 2023 aimed at high polluting industries that will adversely affect many large Australian companies.
The worldwide transition from fossil fuels to renewalables is unstoppable whether the Coalition government recognises it or not.
