The UN-WEF menu plan for the West is about power over the necessities of life — food, energy and water. This unelected socialist bureaucracy, with their loyalty directed to foreign power centres, are busy punishing you and the Australian economy using this made-up concept of a carbon footprint.
The truth is, our agricultural footprint in Australia does not contribute to global “emissions” — not that this would be a problem anyway. Australia has so many trees, grass and crops that every atom of CO2 and methane we produce is re-absorbed into the environment, producing higher growth and heathier soils.
During question time, I asked Senator Wong to provide the figures used to justify the Albanese Government’s nation-killing environmental policies. No sensible answer was received. This debate must be about science and data, not scare campaigns and hubris.
The war on farming is not about the environment, it’s about control. It creates a false sense of food scarcity to make lab-grown, food-like substances a profitable industry for the predatory billionaires.
One Nation will always stand up for Australia’s farmers and rejects the UN-WEF goals of food supply control.
Transcripts
Senator ROBERTS: My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Wong. Minister, what percentage of Australian greenhouse gas emissions result from agriculture in Australia?
Senator Gallagher: Could you repeat the question? We missed the last 15 seconds of it.
Senator ROBERTS: Minister, what percentage of Australian greenhouse gas emissions result from agriculture in Australia?
Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate): Senator, I am awaiting statistics as we speak, but what I can say to you, and as someone who was the climate change minister, is that there is opportunity in agriculture to deal with climate change. As you know, for many years the National Farmers Federation had a much more forward-leaning policy than the coalition when it came to agriculture and climate change. I’m advised it’s in the order of 16 to 17 per cent. Thank you very much, Senator Watt. For the year to June 2023, the agriculture sector was responsible for 17.7 per cent of Australia’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions.
Modelling by ABARES shows that climate change over the last 20 years has reduced the profitability of Australian farms by an average of 23 per cent, or around $29,200. I recall that one of the early reports I read which made me so much more acutely aware of the risk to agriculture of climate change was a report which CSIRO did many years ago, before we won government in 2007. It modelled that Goyder’s line would move south of Clare. For anybody from South Australia—and I know that would be very bad news for Senator Farrell in particular—who knows what the mid-north is like, that is a very frightening prospect. We do think it is important to look at how it is that our food and fibre producers can best adapt to a changing climate. Many are already doing so and are obviously involved in the discussions with government about climate policy.
The PRESIDENT: Senator Roberts, a first supplementary?
Senator ROBERTS: As the World Economic Forum were meeting in Davos last month, the United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, stated that agriculture accounts for between 26 and 33 per cent of world emissions and will account for half a degree of warming by 2050. He further stated that a warming planet will grow less food, not more, and so farming needs to be a major focus of reducing human carbon dioxide production. Minister, how do you reconcile the production of food accounting for between 26 and 33 per cent of emissions with your figure of 17.7?
Senator WONG: There’s a different denominator, Senator. One is as a percentage of Australian emissions, and one is as a percentage of global emissions. I also am unclear from the context and detail of the quote you gave me whether or not Special Envoy Kerry was dealing with food production further downstream as well. I don’t know what he’s referring to. But I certainly agree with what he was saying about the implications for food security.
What is also true is that not only is that a substantial issue for Australia, because it will affect our capacity to produce the levels of grain production we have, which is obviously very important for our economy, but also the nations on who this will fall most hard are those nations who have the least capacity to be resilient to this change. If you look at countries like Bangladesh— (Time expired)
The PRESIDENT: Senator Roberts, second supplementary?
Senator ROBERTS: The methane cycle, soil carbon sequestration and forest carbon sequestration absorb all Australian agricultural emissions, meaning Australian agriculture contributes nothing to global emissions. Minister, is the war on farming not about the environment but rather about creating a false scarcity of food to force the adoption of laboratory-grown food-like substances that predatory billionaires own for their profit and control?
Senator WONG: Senator, there’s a lot in that question, but I want to go back to the fundamental proposition: climate change is already affecting our agricultural production now. I read to you the figures earlier: ABARES modelling shows that climate change over the last 20 years has reduced the profitability of Australian farms by an average of 23 per cent, or around $29,200. No, you don’t like the facts, and we know—
The PRESIDENT: Senator Rennick?
Senator Rennick: A point of order, Madam President: models are not facts.
The PRESIDENT: Senator Rennick, that’s a debating point. Minister Wong, please continue.
Senator WONG: Senator Roberts, I understand your views on this. I disagree with them. What I would say to you is this: if you go and talk to a lot of Australia’s primary producers, if you go and talk to primary producers in the Pacific—
Senator Canavan interjecting—
The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Canavan.
Senator WONG: or South-East Asia, the truth is that people are already experiencing the impact of climate change on agricultural production. We might want to wish it away for ideological reasons, as Senator Canavan does, but— (Time expired)
Honourable senators interjecting—
The PRESIDENT: Order! I’m going to wait for silence.
Opposition senators interjecting—
The PRESIDENT: Order! I’m going to call an opposition senator, so those senators interjecting are wasting her time.
Thank you for all you do for the Australian people
Spot on Malcolm – but the real threat is by FAR greater.
Using the analogy of the bulti faceted eye of a dragonfly, where it is the UN, and the UN-WEF quest to control agriculture/food is just a single lens on that eye.
The ACTUAL threat is the UN itself, and entities such as the WEF..
A threat is one thing, but effecting the threat into reality is the job of Member States, that in turn are steered by politicians and bureaucrats.
Notice the absence of PEOPLE … the very things that have been and are increasingly being controlled by the dangerous fools that the majority of STUPID Australians elect.
Thus – our fate and freedoms are sealed by collective stupidity.
What a nasty piece of work Penny Wong is. I can’t use the term ‘Honourable’, because she is anything but that.
I thought your questions were simple & straight forward, but as always, Ms Wong gives a reply of dribble. “Models are not Facts” is completely true, just see how many billions have been wasted on roads, when the modelling didn’t align with reality.
The word of Honourable is added to the tittle of members of parliament specifically because so many of them would otherwise, entirely devoid of honour. It is in reality another example of the contempt of the sociopathic parasite caste that own the shrivelled souls of those that infest the major political parties.
Are these people like Penny Wong lying about climate change or do they genuinely believe it?
Even the humble tin of beetroot is taking a bashing.
How can empty shelves make profit?
The control police are out to get us.
The globalists want to control everything. People should know by now that globalists cause much of the emissions with their public and private jets among other things than farming ever would in a lifetime.
The WEF and UN are in cahoots, Klaus Schwab has been building WEF power base since the 1980’s with his Marxist ideology aimed at creating a one world Gov’t – which is where the UN fits in.
WEF ideology is freely available on the internet if you want to get up to speed, most people are completely ignorant about the WEF and what Schwab is up to, the mainly leftist global media do not address this subject, it is forbidden.
All our politicians know about the WEFs plans, and I mean all our politicians both side of parliament, State and Federal, even local Gov’t know about the WEF.
The WEF have pretty much got control over the European Parliament, Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, Volodomyr Zelensky are among some of Schwabs “Junior Golbal Leaders.
Bill Gates is seriously behind Schwabs plan, as is George Soros and many other financial elites. “In ten years time you will own nothing but you will be happy” is the WEF mantra. The thing I dislike the most about this massively concerning story, is the fact that, this socialist takeover plan is being done on the sly, most people know nothing about it, or very little, Schwab and his followers have an evil plan and the people will have no say in it at all – you won’t be getting to vote on any of this.
You won’t get a sensible answer from Penny Wong because she is busy following a non Australian agenda.
When are more politicians like yourself Senator Roberts . Going to start calling out these lying politicians such as Penny Wong , and this Labor party , Greens and the Teals on this climate change hoax and tell the people of Australia the truth .
Politicians need to stop playing politics and beating around the bush on this matter and tell it how it really is . The way I see it if something isn’t done shortly about this climate change Hoax then it will be to late for all of us . Together we need to stand up to these Globalist elites and the New World Order and tell them we the people are not going to be apart of their plans, go peddle crazy somewhere else because its not welcome here.
Your amazing senator, keep up the good work.