Family First welcomes the decision of grassroots members of the Queensland Liberal National Party (LNP) to join the growing chorus calling for an end to the failed net zero experiment.

Their overwhelming vote at the party’s convention to ditch the Coalition’s commitment to net zero echoes what Family First has been saying for years: net zero is driving up electricity prices, destroying jobs, and damaging the environment.

Queensland branches brought this motion forward after seeing first-hand the crippling effect reckless energy policies are having on families and industries. Their voices were loud and clear: abandon the net zero mandate. Nationals Senator Matt Canavan rightly told the convention, “The net zero agenda is not working… electricity prices have gone up.”

Yet there is real concern that federal Opposition Leader Sussan Ley and Queensland Premier David Crisafulli will simply ignore their own members and continue ploughing ahead with the same policy. Both have been vocal in claiming the party must “modernise” to win elections. But what is “modern” about burdening families with skyrocketing power bills? What is “modern” about forcing Australia’s manufacturing base offshore while covering prime farmland and pristine coastlines with industrial windmills and solar farms?

Australians were told net zero would deliver cheaper power and new economic opportunities. Instead, we have record electricity bills, an unreliable grid, and failed green hydrogen dreams. Meanwhile, our landscape is being industrialised by renewables that scar the environment far more than they save.

Llew O’Brien MP summed it up well: the “net zero fantasy” makes no sense when the world’s major emitters like China, India, and Russia are not on board. Australia’s unilateral sacrifice is not just illogical—it is self-destructive.

Family First is proud to stand with ordinary Australians, and now with rank-and-file LNP members, in rejecting net zero. But the real test will be whether political leaders heed their members or continue down the reckless path that has already failed.

Net zero is not modern. What is truly modern is an energy policy that puts families first: affordable electricity, a strong manufacturing base, and stewardship of the environment without destroying it in the name of ideology.