According to Geoff Chambers in The Australian, Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers are preparing to double down on Labor’s “renewables revolution” and “Future Made in Australia” agenda in the May 12 budget.

That should set off massive alarm bells.

Australians are already being crushed by higher power bills, a fuel crisis, stubborn inflation, and a cost-of-living crisis that Labor keeps pretending is temporary. And what is their answer?

More of the same.

More subsidies. More interventions. More taxpayer money poured into the Net Zero machine.

Chambers reports Labor has become even more emboldened to pursue its green agenda, despite voters losing faith and despite the very real pressure on household budgets. They simply don’t care that Net Zero is costing you more.

This is the central fraud of Net Zero in Australia.

It gets sold as modernisation. It gets dressed up as industry policy. It gets marketed as “future made”. But the reality is much simpler. Australia is being pushed to make energy more expensive, less reliable, and more dependent on government fixes, all in pursuit of targets that will make no measurable difference to the climate.

And now Labor wants to go further.

Chambers notes that if Labor wins again, it will be in office when its big promises on renewables, emissions reduction and housing are likely to fall short. 

Of course they will. These promises always fall short. But you can guarantee they’re not going to stop charging you for the bill.

This is what happens when a government becomes more interested in slogans than supply, more interested in global prestige than national prosperity.

Australia does not need another budget built around green vanity projects and political branding.

We need cheap power. Reliable power. Domestic strength. Economic sanity.

Labor wants to double down on the exact opposite.

Australians should tell them no.