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Courage and common sense are making a political comeback.

So argued Senator Matt Canavan in his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Brisbane over the weekend.

Canavan’s comments were, in part, a salute to Andrew Hastie, who bypassed the bulldust and drew battlelines with a commitment to can the Carbon Zero con.

Underpinning the senator’s overture is the rapidly expanding momentum of a grass-roots Australia First reawakening, with Hastie fixed firmly at the helm.

Courage, Canavan asserted, is the beginning of the Great Australian Comeback.

Adding weight to the theme, Canavan said he had invited Charlie Kirk to Australia a few months ago.

Canavan’s invite wasn’t prompted by Kirk’s popularity; it was prompted by Kirk’s courage.

“Kirk displayed courage by going into the belly of the beast,” Canavan explained.

“He went into our university campuses and tackled the left with unapologetically strong views.”

“He had courage when he displayed his Christian faith without any apology. And it was that courage that got him a following.”

This level of courage was the key to Kirk’s success.

“The only way we are going to come back,” Canavan told CPAC, “is if we display the same.”

Losing with Labor

Ripping into the Australian Labor Party for its smiles, lies and high-fives, he described courage as having the gumption to reawaken the best of traditional Australia.

In effect, the “progressive” Left’s “sustainable Modern Australia” is a failed state.

For instance, Canavan argued, Australians used to enjoy cheaper electricity than in Japan; since the net-zero nanny state took over, Australians have been paying more.

The real Labor-Green-Teal kick-in-the-guts is that “we’re the biggest energy supplier to Japan. We supply half their fossil fuel requirements.”

“Access to cheap energy should be the birthright of every Australian,” Canavan protested.

“Yet, we’ve got this strange rule now. It’s a very bizarre rule where we let other countries access that energy, but we deny it to ourselves.”

“It’s like having a golden goose in your backyard, but you only let the neighbours collect the eggs.”

“The easiest and quickest way you can destroy a prosperous industrial economy,” he continued, “is to increase the price of energy.”

“We are well on the way.”

“We cannot even make fertiliser anymore,” he said, which means Australia can no longer feed itself, without importing those products from China or the Middle East.

“Net zero has been a complete and utter failure.”

Without using the exact phrasing, Canavan concluded that the Australian Labor Party were pushing Carbon Communism.

From long-term “climate action” plans to big government dependency, the name for it all is Socialism.

The good news, he added, “is that people are waking up to this fact.”

Sticking to Principles

Backing Andrew Hastie, and sending a direct message to current LNP leader, Sussan Ley – who attended the CPAC event – Canavan stated that “net zero has to be completely scrapped.”

“No modified, not amended, not changed to some other form.”

“You don’t tell your wife you’re just going to practice a little bit of adultery.”

Likewise, “we don’t need a little bit of socialism.”

“It’s time for courage.”

Canavan then reasserted his respect for Hastie’s pinning his political career on cancelling Carbon Zero, saying,

“Isn’t it refreshing to have a political leader that’s willing to put his principles — his values — ahead of his career?”

“We need more of this kind of leadership.”

Canavan championing Charlie Kirk’s level of courage here in Australia hasn’t gone unnoticed.

Nor are his points invalid.

In a commentary slamming the Albanese government’s billions in Carbon Zero compliance, Australian libertarian Topher Field remarked, “They’re impoverishing us.”

Labor replacing an entirely perfect power grid to accommodate its plans to save the world from the “climate crisis” is like them replacing a non-broken window with a new one.

“Buckle up. That’s all I can say,” Field added.

It’s worse than you think.

The press conference was filled with lies, misdirections, half-truths, and logical fallacies, and the Mainstream Media are playing along.

I expose it all here:https://t.co/pJQclQMjJU

— Topher Field (@TopherField) September 19, 2025

“If you think things are tough now, I’m sorry, but the brain-dead wrecking balls that hold power in this country are just getting started.”

As a nation, “we’re in trouble. And this is entirely self-inflicted.”

“So, what’s the solution?”

“Well, we have to abandon net zero.”

Field said he was optimistic that the LNP would get that done.

However, he advised, “It seems things will have to get worse before they get better.”

The Australia First momentum is already growing, and it’s building on an optimism that sees Hastie as its leader, fixed firmly at the helm.

Canavan’s call for Charlie Kirk’s level of courage is a clear turning point in the way Australians allow themselves to be governed.

More God, less government is a good place to begin.

The only thing the net-zero nanny state is good for is the Australian Labor Party’s seemingly insatiable, self-serving lust for power.

All net zero leaves the rest of us with is next to nothing in our bank accounts.

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