The Teals Work For China
by David Archibald
29 April 2025
Disinformation about coal began in the 1960s. The oil industry in California wanted to get rid of excess fuel oil, at a time when oil was very cheap, and set out to replace coal in power generation by claiming it was polluting. The climate was cooling at the time and there were dire predictions of a coming ice age. Then the climate began warming again, after the Great Pacific Climate Shift of 1976. The scientists involved flipped to predicting warming, with this due to burning coal.
That narrative gained momentum in 1991 with the fall of most of the world’s communist countries. Socialists sought a more credible ideological home. Many years passed and now that ideology is incorporated in the law of the land, in things like the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act of October, 2007 — which was Howard’s last dark deed after the Liberals lost the September 2007 election. This act was necessary to settle down the auditing of carbon, before taxing it could begin. Howard was an amateur Machiavelli who wanted to force Australia towards nuclear power by making coal more expensive. Nigh on 20 years later we have the higher costs, but we still don’t have nuclear power.
Abbott won the 2013 election on the back of a promise to repeal the carbon tax. It was repealed but former World Economic Forum head of strategy, Greg Hunt, talked Abbott out of repealing the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act. The consequence of that is that the carbon tax came back to life as Net Zero. A couple of elections ago, an economist by the name of Brian Fisher predicted that Net Zero would shrink the economy by at least 10%. That is well on its way, with GDP per capita falling by 8% since the last election.
That last election in 2022 saw the emergence of a group called the Teals, a creation of green energy grifter Simon Holmes a Court.
The strange thing about this is that Mr Holmes a Court’s group sent out a lot of large cheques to Teal candidates, which is out of character for Mr Holmes a Court. The revelations, after the change of regime in the United States, that US taxpayers were funding a multitude of leftwing causes around the planet via the US Government agency USAID suggested that this may have been the ultimate source of the Teals’ funding. But USAID has been wound down and the Teals’ extravagant spending continues.
So what is the ultimate source of the Teals’ money? A clue was the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack on the JoNova website on the Easter weekend. The attacker had control of 100,000 bots around the world. One particular Chinese server stood out for being a source of trouble, and after those requests were blocked, traffic from Singapore declined sharply. Joanne has provided further context:
A few of my commenters are great fans of renewables and climate change, and for some mysterious reason, often those who are “believers” are also very pro China. Somehow, despite caring about the environment (they say) they are not concerned about slavery in Xinjiang or child labor in the Congo. Over the years I see what issues pushes their button the most, and even though they “believe” in climate change, the thing that really gets them going is when I criticize China, and the thing China appears to be most afraid of is any call for trade sanctions or boycotts of Chinese goods, or cutting off supply.
Oddly, if they feel badly treated, they protest but return calmly the next day as if nothing happened. Just like they would if it were a job.
Anything coming out of China, including fentanyl, newly transplanted hearts, kidneys, livers and everything else, has the CCP’s approval. The question that follows from that is why would the Chinese Communists want to attack Joanne Nova’s blog?
The answer would be that her work cuts across what the Chinese Communists want to achieve in Australia, which is Australia’s de-industrialisation through extortionate power costs. There are plenty of parallels to this in other countries. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was an agent of influence for the FSB, de-industrialising Germany by closing coal-fired power stations and nuclear plants, and replacing the power produced from those things with gas imported from Russia. Recently the UK Government accused China of plotting to close the last operating steelworks in the UK, and arranged for Royal Navy protection for a cargo of coal to ensure the plant kept operating.
An added bonus for China in curbing Australian coal consumption is that the coal would be redirected to the international market, increasing supply and making it cheaper for China to buy. Meanwhile, China’s own coal production has reached 4.8 billion tonnes per annum and last year they imported a further 432 million tonnes. By comparison, Australia’s exports were 335 million tonnes. Another bonus for China is that they sell us the PV panels and windmills that are supposed to replace our coal-fired power stations.
Whatever the Chinese are spending on the Teals, they are getting a multiple of that back while we wallow in poverty and stupidity. The absurdity of the situation is illustrated by this graph of the rise of China’s carbon dioxide emissions from 1850 to 2024:
So far we have demonstrated that China has motivation and form in destroying Australia. But do we have a smoking gun? That appeared today in the form of a report in The Australian newspaper that a Chinese group is physically supporting the Teals in the field:
The Ryan referred to is Monique Ryan, Teal incumbent in the seat of Kooyong in Victoria. The Chicoms have broken cover. The Teals are what they want because the Teals will destroy Australia faster than any other party. The Teals work for China.
David Archibald is the author of The Anticancer Garden in Australia