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The Nationals have launched a bold “no more bulldust” campaign to save Australians from the catastrophic consequences of Carbon Zero.

They’ve just powered up an Australia First pitch to ditch the poverty-inducing Net Zero nanny state.

“Powering Australia First” is a clear “hell no” to Net Zero.

The new campaign is a fight for the nation, and it gives the Nationals a firm foundation for the 2028 election.

Pushing Poverty

Speaking with Sky News, Queensland Nationals Senator Matt Canavan said he was “over the moon that common sense was making a comeback.”

Canavan then added,

“The race to net zero is a race to make yourself poorer sooner.

“Net Zero is not working for Australia. Electricity, gas prices, and energy prices are all through the roof.

“Powering Australia First is a plan that can unleash Australian energy. It removes restrictions, removes taxes, removes the burden on the Australian people.”

Lowering emissions is still part of the deal, he added, saying the goal would be to make energy more efficient.

Explaining National Party leader, David Littleproud’s “commitment to emission reductions”, Canavan said, “The Nationals believe in a fair go, and a fair go for Australia is reducing emissions in line with other advanced economies.”

Promoting the policy position to Paul Murray, Canavan described the  lofty 2050 Carbon Zero target as a “marketing ploy, not an engineering plan.”

“Net Zero has been proven to be extremely costly to any country that has taken it seriously.”

“We have been one of those nations,” asserted Canavan.

“We’re losing our manufacturing industry, and our energy competitiveness.

“We’ve got to regain our energy competitiveness, and our prosperity as a nation.

“We can do that with some reasonable reductions in emissions, but,” he added, “our priority should be planning an energy system that lowers power prices for Australians.”

That, he explained, “is what the Nationals have decided to do.”

Perverse Outcomes

Supporting evidence for the policy platform is sourced from the Page Research Centre (PRC).

The Nationals have drawn a line in the sand.

They have abandoned their support for Net Zero, citing our report as the evidence.

Here’s what we uncovered, and why it’s time to chart a new course for Australia… 🧵 pic.twitter.com/VQjWGOnRRt

— Page Research Centre (@page_research) November 3, 2025

In a 4 November exposition titled “Delivering a High Energy Australia”, PRC bluntly pronounced the Lab-Lib Net Zero strategy a colossal failure.

Providing a cost-to-benefit analysis, PRC stated that, “fiscal spending is ballooning. Costs to the taxpayer are now exceeding 120-140 billion on Net Zero projects.”

The environmental outcomes are just as “perverse”.

Explaining why, PRC said,

“95% of Australia’s emissions reductions since 2005 have come not from cleaner technology, but from land-use restrictions and changes — limiting farmers’ ability to use their own land.

“Meanwhile, vast areas of bushland and farmland are being cleared for renewable energy zones, threatening biodiversity and regional livelihoods.”

Offering an alternative, PRC advised ending the panic.

Policy priorities should be aimed at lowering the cost of energy with a “common sense approach to [so-called] renewables.”

According to the Nationals, their energy plan is “cheaper, better and fairer.”

“We shouldn’t be tied to a target that won’t be met,” the party’s website exclaimed.

Especially not a target that “will cost Aussie families far more than they can afford and far more than other developed countries are committing their citizens to pay.”

The Nationals’ policy has three primary goals:

1. Lower power prices first.
2. Prioritise energy security, alongside better water and land management.
3. A fair go on emissions reductions.

Bonus points for the optics.

The policy propels the Coalition partner into a desperately needed leadership role.

What’s on offer here is a clear policy alternative to Canberra’s socialist climate cabal.

The Nationals’ nixing Net Zero is the kind of decisive leadership that will pick up votes and prop up the flailing Liberal Party.

Taking the lead on Coalition policy also expresses an apparent frustration with Sussan Ley’s Labor-lite Liberals, who appear paralysed by an addiction to focus groups and photo-ops.

Despite appearing to be on the back foot, Ley should be thankful, not furious.

I don’t think it’s a stretch to state that this level of moral clarity from the National Party could also win them a controlling stake in the Coalition.

More to the point, this kind of “drill baby drill” fortitude is nation-saving.

The Nationals‘ push to achieve reliable energy independence (as opposed to risky “renewable” dependency) is the leadership many have been hoping and praying for.