Why Australia’s most prominent climate change deniers have stopped talking about the climate

Later at the same meeting, Boyce said blackouts were “a big political opportunity” and that he had urged fellow MPs to adopt a “do-nothing strategy” that would allow power outages and build opposition to net zero policies.

Right out of the conservative playbook. Make things objectively worse, blame the "left" for it, then pretend you have a better solution for it.