3 May

I knew people who worked on the original Snowy Hydro scheme. It made modern Australia. The way it took that enormous influx of refugees from WW2 and mixed them with the locals to unify everybody behind massive nation building. And you know what it was? A massive project in renewable energy. The men shown here, mostly now dead, would feel violated by today’s anti-immigration and anti-renewables politics. These were hard men, and women. Lives almost destroyed by war, who came here and worked like slaves without a fuss, creating a much more fascinating and complex Australia. Unlike the pig-ignorant racists and bigots today, and the in-bred political operatives who never built a thing. The outrage we should feel that these pathetic non-entity ‘leaders’ of today and their infantile keyboard wars now target the two things that above all else shaped modern Australia. Immigration, and renewable energy.