Can Anthony the unready change his spots?

May 12, 2025

Peter Sainsbury’s summing up of the Albanese Government’s number one, two and three priorities, to get re-elected and from the box seat, keep the horses calmed, is a strategy that, if pursued, promises Australia will be totally unready for the impact of the looming climate upheaval. A Labor hero after his bone-crushing, come-from-behind election win, inaction on climate will leave him reviled by future generations.

Having spent a lifetime earning a living dependent on the seasons, I have seen changes over more than seven decades that, quite frankly, terrify me. Apart from the geo-physical science so clearly explained in Sainsbury’s article, the impact on global food production chains will trigger societal disruption that will make the French Revolution seem like a fairytale. Unless we act wholeheartedly and immediately, no one’s going to live happily ever after for some time.

Albanese’s Government has three years to acknowledge the dire straits in which we’re sailing and carry those unwilling to accept that actuality with it.

Never mind the Paris Agreement; the environment and the laws of physics didn’t care two hoots about the dinosaurs, and there’s no reason they’ll make an exception for us.