Here we go again—Blackout Bowen and his taxpayer-funded climate circus have rolled back into the Hunter like a band of door-to-door salesmen flogging solar panels to coal towns. This time, they’ve brought along their fellow green missionaries—MP Pat Conroy and MP Sharon Claydon—to bless us locals with yet another round of corporate welfare disguised as “green innovation.”
The latest handout? $424 Million of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars gifted to chemical giant Orica to build a so-called “green hydrogen hub.” You heard that right—a multinational corporation, already making fat profits, is now being handed public funds in the name of saving the planet. Meanwhile, you’re paying more just to keep the lights on.
Let’s not forget, Origin Energy—the same energy giant the government once touted as a “partner” in this very project—has already walked away. Why? Because the whole idea is economically unviable. That’s corporate speak for: “It doesn’t work.” But don’t let that stop Bowen and his band of bureaucrats. When ideology takes the wheel, reason gets thrown under the bus.
They promise “high-paying green jobs” while Hunter Valley coal miners are being sidelined, ridiculed, and legislated out of existence. The so-called “transition” is nothing more than a de-industrialisation campaign led by city elites who’ve never set foot in a mine or paid a regional power bill in their lives. These are the same people who wouldn’t last an hour doing the kind of work that built this country—but they’ll lecture us from Canberra about how we should live.
Bowen says we must “act on climate change,” or we’ll be doomed. Doom, of course, always comes just around the corner—2030, 2040, 2050—moving the goalposts while they sink billions into dreams that don’t deliver energy, don’t deliver jobs, and don’t deliver hope.
Meanwhile, China, India, and Pakistan are ramping up their use of coal, oil, and gas. They’re not shutting down their industries. They’re not apologising for keeping their citizens warm and their factories humming. They’re building power plants, not hydrogen fantasylands. They’re getting rich while we’re getting poor—all in the name of “climate responsibility.”
And while the media cameras rolled and the press releases flowed, one name was notably absent—“Big Man” Dan Repacholi. Funny that. The self-styled working-class champion of the Hunter, and the Labor MP who never misses a hi-vis photo op, was nowhere to be seen. Is Dan finally realising that hitching his wagon to Bowen’s Climate Circus might not play well with the very miners and manufacturers he claims to represent? Or is he just hoping we don’t notice as his government sells us out?
If this was really about emissions, they’d be pushing nuclear energy, the only scalable, reliable zero-emissions baseload source. But they won’t. Why? Because this isn’t about emissions—it’s about control, ideology, and wealth redistribution. From the working-class regions like the Hunter to inner-city consultants and green start-up CEOs sipping lattes while checking their carbon credits.
Let me be clear: this isn’t an energy transition. It’s an economic demolition. The green agenda isn’t lifting us up—it’s dragging us backwards. We’re being asked to give up coal, gas, and even reliable power in exchange for an experiment—one that’s already failing overseas and being subsidised into existence here.
And the cruelest joke? After all this, we’ll still be told to do more. Drive less. Eat bugs. Stop flying. Pay more. Work less. Be grateful.
Bowen and his cronies aren’t saving the planet. They’re sacrificing Australian livelihoods on the altar of global green virtue while the rest of the world keeps moving forward.
So, no thanks. We don’t need another press conference. We need our industries back. Our jobs back. Our future back.
Keep the Hunter running on coal. Keep Australia running on common sense.