The coronavirus crisis has exacerbated the need for Australia to ditch the Paris Agreement and “the anti-energy craziness” of the Left in order to flourish in a post-pandemic world, according to Sky News host Rowan Dean
. Mr Dean says while China is beginning to ramp up its manufacturing sector, Australia is busy "smothering its economy." He said the crisis is an opportunity for the government recalibrate the economy.
"Now is the time to pull out of the Paris Agreement, slash bureaucracy, free up our employment laws to encourage individuality not uniformity, encourage ambition, creativity and enterprise," Mr Dean said.
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