Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Then there is the sobering news after the terrible trio—Batman, who is no longer with us, Robin, who still resides with us, and the butler, Alfred Pennyworth—went to Townsville. They said they would get rid of the carbon tax, but, of course, they did not. That is why under their government there was a 400 per cent increase in the price of refrigerant gases, which the dairy industry uses. That is why under their government there was an increase in the power prices. We have the big dairy farmers paying between $10,000 and $15,000 in power prices, and, of course, those prices went up.

Under their government they still believed in a 6.85 cents a litre increase in diesel prices, because they believe they can make the world cooler. Under their government they believe in making you poorer. Their policy is to make you poorer. They are to be remembered by making you poorer. Their No. 1 policy if you want them back is to make you poorer, because they believe that they can single-handedly cool the planet from a room in Canberra. They believe in this peculiar place where if you put Australian coal into Australian coal-fired power plants, it is a bad rock, but if it moves over water to another country and makes people in that country warmer or cooler—

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