That’s not a speech Albo – THAT’S a speech

Precisely because it was such a powerful challenge to the two great political pieties of our time, there will be a sustained attempt to ridicule, ignore and bury Donald Trump’s seismic speech to the UN last week.

Gavin Newsom, the woke Californian governor and favourite to be the next Democrat presidential candidate, called it “an embarrassment and an abomination”. Australia’s Twiggy Forrest said that Trump was a “liar” and dared the President to sue him.

And yet none of the critics have actually engaged with Trump’s two fundamental points: namely that jeopardising our energy system in the flawed pursuit of climate action and not dealing with uncontrolled mass immigration are leading to economic and societal suicide.

Consider Trump’s words: On climate change, he pointed out the prevalence of so-called expert scaremongering, starting with the UN’s 1982 declaration that “by the Year 2000, climate change would cause a global catastrophe”.

First, he said, it was “global cooling will kill the world, we have to do something, then they started saying global warming will kill the world, so … they called it climate change. And so that way, whether it goes higher or lower or whatever the hell happens, it’s climate change. It’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”.

Directly addressing the current leaders of the EU, Britain, Canada and Australia, Trump said: “I’m telling you if you don’t get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail”.

On mass immigration, Trump said: “I’m telling you if you don’t stop people that you’ve never seen before, that you have nothing in common with, your country is going to fail. I’m the President of the United States but I worry about Europe. I love Europe. I love the people of Europe and I hate to see it being devastated by energy and immigration. This double tailed monster destroys everything in its wake and they cannot let this happen any longer. You’re doing it because you want to be nice and you want to be politically correct and you’re destroying your heritage”.

For at least two decades, anyone questioning the “climate crisis” thesis has been branded a “climate denier”, and anyone questioning the wisdom of mass migration into the West has been branded a “racist”.

Here is Trump’s response: “I just want to repeat that immigration and the high cost of green renewable energy is destroying a large part of the free world and a large part of the planet. Countries that cherish freedom are fading fast because of their policies on these two subjects. You need strong borders and traditional energy sources if you are going to be great again”.

Whether you like Trump or not, the fact that he’s forcing a debate about climate action and uncontrolled immigration is a good thing. For too long, the ordinary citizen who bears the brunt of ever higher power bills and unsustainable population growth has been ignored by the elites, even though it’s the ordinary citizen who lives with the bill shock, the housing shortages and suburbs riven with crime.

By calling this out as a ‘scam’ and a ‘con-job’, by his willingness to speak openly about how Western cultures have lost confidence in themselves, there’s no doubt Trump is making enemies.

But if not Trump, then who else is brave enough to do it, and powerful enough that he forces the world to listen? After all, since the advent of climate alarmism 30 years ago, very powerful vested interests have created a whole economic model built off the back of billion-dollar taxpayer subsidies. Indeed, last week’s report from the Page Research Centre reveals the extent of foreign influence in the anti-coal campaign in Australia alone worth $170 million.

Then there’s China, the greatest strategic competitor that the West has faced in decades, happy to pontificate about our need to reduce emissions because it is selling us the solar panels and wind turbines to make it happen, while itself building new coal-fired power stations at the rate of two a week.

At the UN on Thursday, China declared that its emissions would not peak until 2030 while claiming that it would then reduce them by seven to ten per cent by 2035. Compare that target with the one just announced by Albanese, that we will cut our emissions by 62 to 70 per cent by 2035, and you can see who will emerge stronger and more energy-independent in the years ahead.

When even former UK Labor PM Tony Blair is urging a radical rethink of Net Zero, you know the game is up.

And while many in the media won’t want to report on Trump’s speech because it came from Trump, it’s hard to deny that there’s a shift in the debate as the impacts of climate policies, and high immigration, hit home to everyday voters.

Before another dollar is spent, there should be a Royal Commission into Australia’s climate agenda so that every document is made public for genuine scrutiny, particularly the cost to taxpayers which, even now, Labor has refused to release.

If the doomsters’ arguments stack up, what could they possibly have to fear from the truth?