I am not an advocate of conspiracy theories, but I do believe that we can and ought to be feeling a little nervous about the authoritarian nonsense emerging from the throats of some of Australia's most prominent policy influencers:
Dalliances with authoritarianism are never far from the fringes of the green movement.
Prominent green activist, Clive Hamilton, for instance, has suggested that the ‘suspension of democratic processes' might be a necessary ‘emergency' response to the threat of climate change. Sydney Morning Herald columnist Elizabeth Farrelly recently wrote that ‘Australia's ludicrous dithering on a pollution tax' was evidence that voting should be a ‘privilege' rather than a right and that China should be envied because it need not ‘pander' to voters.
...Like Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, Tim Flannery is not averse to using the power of the state to enforce his views. He has openly fantasised about judicial punishments being handed out in the future to those who doubt climate science today. ‘Perhaps the day will come when a prosecutor in some yet-to-be-formed international court will appear with a copy of Scorcher under his arm,' he has said, referring to Clive Hamilton's book attacking the ‘greenhouse mafia' of citizens and businesses who are sceptical about man's contribution to climate change.
(James Patterson from the Institute of Public Affairs)
These are but a few of the thoughts beginning to be spoken out as these closet authoritarians are being frustrated in their aims to shackle the economy.
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