The new Australian government inherited a costly and cumbersome climate bureaucracy. They seem unsure how to eliminate it.
On the one hand they acted decisively, stormed “Flannery Castle”, and eliminated the Climate Commission.
But just across the moat, they baulked at storming the other citadels, applying instead the death by 1000 cuts – a prolonged siege. They will collapse 33 climate change schemes run by seven departments and eight agencies into three bodies run by two departments. They must hope these holdouts will die slowly from funds starvation or boredom.
Naturally, abolition of the Climate Commission was condemned by green politicians and the bureaucratic defenders office in the ABC. But after three days of ritual shrieking, the caravan has moved on, and the Climate Commission is now just a footnote in climatism history.
The gradualist approach, however, is doomed to failure. Have you ever tried to pull a tooth slowly?
Every attempt to remove funds or people from the Climate Concentration Camps will be met by the same shrieking from the same people. And before much is achieved it will be election time again and, to quell the shrieking, all talk of cuts or dismissals will stop.
Gradualism means we will be stuck with the dead weight of the climate bureaucracy for years.
Don’t retain, replace, rebadge or merge. Charge the ramparts and abolish quickly and completely.
Here is the mess that the new government has inherited:
Viv Forbes,
Rosewood, Qld, Australia
Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.
Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.
