Even they realize that bragging about renewable energy targets is like juggling sticks of dynamite when the nation is in danger of running out of diesel. Every time someone mentions the 82% target during an oil crisis, it just reminds us how the government have been barking up the wrong tree.

Make no mistake, they aren't renouncing Climate Change, they're just packing the idea away quietly and hoping no one notices. They are testing-the-waters. After the war, if it's safe to bring aggressive Net Zero policies back, they can pretend it was just a typo. If it isn't safe, which it probably won't be, they will be hoping everyone just forgets.

Later they can say there will be no Net Zero targets, while they bring the exact same schemes in under a different name the night before Parliament closes for Christmas. Remember how the hated Emissions Trading Scheme became the SafeGuard Mechanism? Praise be to the Bankers, eh? As long as The Blob gets its funding.

Even the Labor Party is trying to stem the loss of voters to One Nation:

Any party that polls 30% has a lot of soft power:

Renewable target missing from ALP draft national platform
— By Greg Brown, and Susan Ison, The Australian

Labor has dropped references to its 82 per cent renewables target in a preliminary draft of the ­national policy platform it will take to the next election due in 2028, but is vowing to use wind and solar power to bring down electricity prices and reindustrialise Australia while blaming coal for grid unreliability.

Labor sources are playing down the omission of its goal of 82 per cent by 2030 in the draft, declaring the party remained committed to the target and it was covered in a broader reference to "ambitious and achievable 2030 and 2035 targets".

And we can see they are afraid of Andrew Hastie — they mocked his idea of reviving an Australian car industry, but lookie here — the government want us to become a leader making EVs?

An initial draft of Labor's ­platform would tie a third-term Albanese government to "urgently" grow the manufacturing base by addressing high energy prices and "poor-quality trade agreements", while backing Australia as a potential producer of electric cars.

Sure, let's compete with China but with electricity at twice the price?

The Labor Government have been caught with their pants down in an energy war
They've spent years trying to stop the tides rising by a millimeter a year, when they should have been keeping our oil refineries running, exploring for gas and oil, and setting up coal to liquids plants for national security.

And so should the Liberals before them.