China will never stop sending garbage our way.
Why would they? As long as Australia keeps buying it, they’ll keep shipping it. Exploding electric vehicles. Combusting solar batteries. Toxic building materials. If it’s cheap, disposable, and dangerous, it’ll arrive in a container with a smiling invoice attached.
You’d think the lesson would’ve landed when dozens of children’s classrooms imported from China were found laced with asbestos. Children. Asbestos. That alone should have triggered trade consequences, blacklists, and prosecutions. Instead, Canberra yawned, shuffled some paper, and went right back to ordering the next shipment.
And now here we are again. Wind turbines. Hundreds of thousands of them. Imported from the same country, built by the same manufacturers, using the same poisoned materials we already caught them using. Asbestos didn’t magically become safe just because it’s wrapped in green branding and bolted to a hill.
It didn’t stop at classrooms. It didn’t stop at turbines. Hospitals too. Hospital expansions — places meant to heal — quietly built with materials that cause cancer. That’s not negligence. That’s a pattern. And pretending otherwise is either cowardice or complicity.
Now comes the real insult. Electricity companies have decided that removing the acres of concrete foundations under these turbines is “not financially viable.” Translation: profits were private, liabilities are public. So once again, Aussie farmers get stuck with the bill, the mess, and the poisoned land — while executives and importers walk away rich and untouchable.
No accountability. No penalties. No forced remediation. No consequences for China. No consequences for the middlemen. Just farmers left holding contaminated dirt and governments pretending not to notice.
This isn’t renewable energy. It’s industrial dumping with a halo slapped on it. And this year? This isn’t just embarrassing — it’s disgraceful.
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