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Andrew Hastie’s declaration of war on the Carbon Zero climate con is a clear step towards him becoming the leader of the opposition.

In my opinion, the sooner, the better.

This sentiment is shared by a majority of people who’ve commented on two of Hastie’s Australia First Instagram posts rejecting the Net Zero Nanny State (see here and here).

One Aussie Instagrammer wrote, “Hastie needs to replace Ley, immediately!”

Another declared, “100% Andrew. We need you as the leader of the Liberal Party. This has to happen soon.”

“You are the shining light we need at this time,” they added.

A third person commented with a prayer emoji, telling Hastie that his “words give hard-working Australians hope, please challenge for the leadership.”

Summarising the consensus, a fourth asserted, “Our Next Prime Minister, leading for the people of Australia.”

What all this strongly suggests is that Andrew Hastie is the way forward.

When he speaks – just as with Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – the people of Australia listen.

Aussies have abandoned the current opposition leader, Sussan Ley, and taken to social media to cheer on Hastie.

Despite this, Ley’s lame team still sits grasping tightly to their Labor-lite “modern Australia”.

They’re seemingly incapable of seeing how those policies are plummeting the Liberal-National Coalition’s popularity to record lows.

Stern Warning

Addressing Parliament last month, Hastie labelled Labor’s net zero nanny cause unnecessarily “radical and destructive”.

He then slammed the Labor Party, in effect stating that Carbon Zero would make us entirely dependent on the Chinese Communist Party.

“What they’re going to do,” Hastie protested, “is move from cheap, reliable Aussie coal and gas-fired power stations to Chinese-made industrial-scale wind and solar farms that destroy our fertile farming land, and our environment.”

“This is not only very expensive,” he remarked, it will be a bad return on investment, because so-called ‘renewables‘ are risky.

“It’s a pretty bleak picture,” Hastie asserted, adding, “Labor is driving our country into the ground.”

“They’re chasing unrealistic climate targets, and Australians are paying the price for it.”

The net impact of net zero, he argued, is “a less secure and less sovereign Australia.”

Skip forward to last week, and the man with serious Prime Ministerial potential doubled down.

By far the Liberal Party’s brightest star, Hastie urged the party to nix net zero, saying if they don’t, he’ll be leaving politics.

He made the comments in an on-air conversation with ABC Perth’s Gary Adshead, while stating that “climate alarmism is a massive wealth grab.”

Andrew Hastie is on 🔥 pic.twitter.com/m3aBkXQGKQ

— ADVANCE (@FairAusADV) September 16, 2025

We need to be honest about the cost and the hypocrisy of climate zealots, he declared.

“Australians can expect to pay up to $1.5 trillion by 2030 for net zero, hitting families, households, businesses and industry.”

China, India, and America combined make up 50% of global emissions; Australia’s contribution is 1.1%.

If Labor were convinced climate catastrophism was real, Hastie reasoned, then Anthony Albanese would have ended our coal and gas exports to China and India.

Albanese would have told “Prime Minister Modi and President Xi to stop their economic development, stop the economic growth, no more electricity, no more sanitisation, no more lifting your people out of poverty. He didn’t.”

“The hypocrisy is breathtaking.”

Chris Pike from Ryde with a banger pic.twitter.com/pvtVRWWgi5

— Senator Matt Canavan (@mattjcan) September 18, 2025

Better Alternative

Replying to a question about polling suggesting Australians want to be taxed into oblivion to save the planet, Hastie said,

“Most Australians have never had an alternative view.

“Australians have never had a politician, really, in the last decade, come forward and say: guys, we’re going to put Australians first.”

Such as, he continued, that “we’re not going to take orders from the International Panel on Climate Change.”

BREAKING: Labor has announced a 2035 emissions reduction target of 70%, based on a $32m propaganda piece which claims flooding 314 days a year in Brisbane and deaths increasing by 350%

Based on “modelling” which is extreme worst case, ignores median expectations, basically fraud pic.twitter.com/pJfx3Sc18t

— Aus Integrity (@QBCCIntegrity) September 18, 2025

Although Hastie said he supports Ley as leader, he wouldn’t support her pushing for net zero by 2050.

If she did, “I’d be out of a job,” he explained.

Hastie then described Carbon Zero as a straitjacket for Australia and Australians, adding “ I’ve nailed my colours to the mast.”

“My primary mission in politics is to build a stronger, more secure, more competitive Australia. Energy security is a vital input to that. So that’s my bottom line.”

The priority is Australia First, and getting the nation out of this net-zero straitjacket.

Indicating what changes he’d make as a leader, Hastie stated, “Our first question will be: what’s best for the Australian people?”

He stated in response that the best the bureaucracy can do for Australians is to solve cost-of-living pressures, reduce taxes, and increase freedom.

Hastie then concluded his declaration of war on the Carbon Zero climate con by stating that energy security is the critical key to achieving this end.

Hear, hear!

Hastie for PM.

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Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.