Sky News is back on the beat with a familiar headline: “The $20,000-per-person climate tax: Cost of Australia’s green agenda to become astonishingly clear this week when new emissions targets are set.”

A repost from 19 September 2025.

You’ve seen this cast before — the stoic Aussie battler, the reckless Greenie, and somewhere in the background, a shadowy figure from Beijing hiding behind a rooftop solar panel.

Different week, same story. And the ending never changes: blame China.

This week’s episode claims Labor’s 2035 emissions target will torch the power grid, drain wallets and flatten country towns under a stampede of wind farms.

Somewhere between the imaginary $500 billion price tag and the usual cutaways of transmission towers, the actual policy disappears – and the fearmongering takes over.

Then comes the main character reveal: China. Beijing, we’re told, is still burning coal and laughing at our naivety.

What doesn’t make the cut is less dramatic but far more useful – that China is also building clean energy on a scale no one else can match, because running a giant economy takes a lot of power. That’s not propaganda. That’s basic grid security.

Yes, China’s still building coal. But it’s also........

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