Essay by Eric Worrall
As Australia wakes up to the Iran War reality we still need fossil fuel, King Charles chooses now to push his climate obsession.
The letter from King Charles;
From the ABC;
King Charles praises Territorians, warns of climate change dangers in open letter on ‘devastating’ NT wet season
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King Charles has written an open letter to Northern Territory residents in the wake of a series of recent natural disasters, warning the “increasingly catastrophic effects of climate change are surely a siren-call to the world for more urgent action”.
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It comes after multiple NT communities experienced widespread damage from flooding and ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle last month, leaving hundreds of Territorians displaced, with many yet to return home.
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NT Administrator David Connolly said the king’s letter had come after he wrote to Charles “to share with him the devastating impact of the 2026 wet season”.
…King ‘sharpening his language’
King Charles has been outspoken about environmental issues over many years, even collaborating on a documentary tracking his “personal journey as an environmentalist” released earlier this year.
But journalist and author of The Royals in Australia, Juliet Rieden, said the comprehensiveness of the King’s latest letter set it apart from his previous commentary.
“What is very different about this particular message is its length and its level of detail about climate change,” she said.
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Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/king-charles-open-letter-nt-flooding-climate-change-warning/106546988
Bad timing Charlie. Greens have been noticeably pulling back their usual Net Zero rhetoric in the last few weeks, in the face of Aussie fury at wholly inadequate preparation for Iran war fuel shortages. People are asking questions like whether political Net Zero obsession led to our refineries being closed, forcing our green Prime Minister to try to defend his non-existent record of keeping refineries open.
The obvious question, will the King’s crass insensitivity renew calls for an Australian Republic?
Even if there is another referendum, I doubt it will succeed. The holdup is not love for the monarchy, the problem is the selfishness of our politicians. The issue which caused the last referendum on becoming a republic in 1999 to fail is the unpopular new constitution proposed by the government of the day.
The Aussie people wanted a US Presidential style republic with a directly elected president acting as defender of the constitution, but what we were offered was a weak puppet president, with the office of Prime Minister becoming all powerful.
The one function the monarchy still performs in Australia is defender of the constitution. In 1975 the far left Whitlam government was dismissed using rarely exercised royal powers, after it flirted with outright communism and seizure of private property.
The form of republic Aussies were offered in 1999 would have removed the threat of dismissal for politicians who blatantly violate the constitution.
Such a transparent attempted power grab understandably failed to fire the imagination of Australian voters.
Multigenerational entitlement is worse than inbreeding. It impacts millions of gullible people and affiliated governments. Wake up!
It is absolutely certain that a much higher carbon tax and more solar panels would have prevented these floods. Batteries too.
I could tolerate the Queen, but I am finding the King to be quite tedious.
Letter is a tour de froce in using polite language in an angry and aggressive tone.
If I read it without my literary critic glasses I feel a little smaller by the end.
I see he’s got his “I’m a silly doofus nutjob” hat on.
This helps me understand the meaning of the Magna Carta as a deal to retain special status for a family line in addition to preserving feel good traditions. I’ll lump it with other oddities of history like the August Busch family dysfunction and Budweiser beer.
Here’s another reason why Britain should get into the 21st century and dissolve the monarchy.
In the graphic, why isn’t King Charles wearing a dunce cap?
Which part of ‘wet season’ does Charlie not understand?
The greatest recorded(?) flood was supposedly caused by a God.
Perhaps Chuckles should pray more often and ask for him/her/it/they/them/…. to stop