Tomago Smelter Bailout: Another Bill for You, Another Win for the Climate Elites
So here we are again—another day, another multinational begging Canberra for taxpayer cash. According to the Australian Financial Review, Tomago Aluminium is now pleading for a multibillion-dollar bailout just to keep operating. Why? Because power prices are through the roof, and this so-called “green transition” is crushing the industries that once made Australia strong.
But here’s what the media won’t emphasize: this bailout is on top of the $2 billion green slush fund Anthony Albanese handed out earlier this year to aluminium smelters like Tomago. That money was supposed to help them go green—an incentive, they said. But apparently, it wasn’t enough. Now, Rio Tinto, which owns Tomago, is back at the trough, asking everyday Australians to fork over billions more so they can keep the lights on.
Let’s be clear: this is not just about one factory. Aluminium smelting is the backbone of our manufacturing, defense, and infrastructure sectors. And yet, thanks to skyrocketing electricity costs driven by unreliable renewables and Labor’s blind ideological crusade, the whole operation is circling the drain.
Remember when they promised that renewable energy would be cheaper? That was the line, wasn’t it? “Cheaper bills, cleaner skies.” Well, where are the savings? Where’s the stability? Because all we see are higher bills, struggling industries, and bailouts stacked on top of handouts.
And what is the Albanese government doing? Nothing—except pretending this is all part of the plan. While our industrial base collapses under the weight of green dreams, Labor’s busy opening the border, inviting in hundreds of thousands of migrants, and choking our infrastructure. But when it comes to keeping a critical facility like Tomago alive? They’ll throw billions at it with no long-term fix—just another band-aid on a bullet wound.
This is what happens when you let ideology run your energy policy. You get bailouts for billion-dollar companies, blackouts for working families, and a grid that looks more like a third-world patchwork than a first-world system.
We were told renewables were the future. Turns out, they’re just a very expensive way to ruin the present.