For your sake, the Australian government took at least $440 of yours this year and spent it on electrical hobgoblins that claim to make nicer weather in a hundred years.  That's $1,800 for each family of four, in order to reduce world temperatures by nothing in our lifetimes.

How many families would willingly give up that kind of money on the witchdoctor weather quest?

The IPA has done what the Labor Government is too dishonest to do, and the Opposition was too scared to do. Adam Creighton added up the bonzana the government has spent on climate change since 2022 — and it's exploded like a tanker of polyurethane-policy-filler. It sticks to everything, can't be removed and if we burn it down, it fills the room with cyanide.

Back in 2021 the nation was throwing $1.7 billion dollars a year on certified weather voodoo. But after Labor won in 2022 that figure ballooned until now the federal budget spending on "climate change" and 'Net Zero' has expanded to $9 billion.  But this is barely the start of the true cost Australians have paid — The transition bonfire added about $150 to most electricity bills in Australia this year. For some Australians electricity has risen by as much as 50% since the Labor government was elected. Then there's another $3b in electricity rebates each year to hide the true cost of the electricity horror show. Someone has to pay those rebates, and since it's borrowed money, that'll be the kids.  Then there are the businesses that folded, the jobs that were lost, the factories that moved away, and the higher cost of frozen everything in supermarkets.

How did we go broke —  gradually then suddenly.

Climate change spend surges to $9bn a year

By Matthew Cranston, The Australian

"The array of 'programs' and 'funds' related to climate change and net zero, which are typically piled on top of one another, year after year, has become ridiculous and almost impossible to track. It raises serious questions about how effectively and efficiently public funds are being spent," Mr Creighton said. "Despite all this soaring spending on net zero, Australia's emissions have fallen only 2.8 per cent on the government's own figures compared to 2005, once you exclude creative accounting with trees."

What do we call it when the government commands the economy — communism?

The construction of electricity generation and distribution, which is dominated by renewable energy projects such as wind and solar, has now reached a record share of total engineering construction.

Westpac economist Pat Bustamante said that since 2020, work done on renewables had grown by 250 per cent from around $2bn a quarter to around $7bn, "with a significant portion of this growth driven by the public sector".