“What this nation needs as we build bundles of big beautiful roads is not another round of hand-wringing, airy-fairy woke utopianism. We need a sensible, boots-on-the-deck approach to securing our energy future. And yes – harvesting the noble whale for its bountiful oil is the common-sense solution.
“Look, I’d love to proclaim that some miraculous source of clean, limitless energy is about to tumble upon us like manna from the heavens or blow in from across the ditch. But reality, my friends, is not written by the communications department of the green politburo. It is written in the stars, by me, Shane Jones. Minister of Resources and Oceans.
"We must pursue the whales, harvest their bountiful blubber, render it in stout Kiwi vats, and extract the energy that will warm our homes, light our lamps again, and ignite our furnaces for generations to come. This is about ensuring our national sovereignty. It's about securing our energy independence. Not bowing to the whims of wittering Wellington wokesters.
"Why else did we save the whales?"
