House debates
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Bills
Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025, National Environmental Protection Agency Bill 2025, Environment Information Australia Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Customs Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Excise Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (General Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Restoration Charge Imposition) Bill 2025; Second Reading
5:37 pm
Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party) Share this | Hansard source
I'll take the interjection from the member for Hunter. As he well knows, they had to put $3½ million to offsets to build aged-care units. So you know what they did? They didn't build as many units, which means that people didn't go out of their houses, which means that other people didn't have houses to go into. In a very specific example, it shows you how obscene this policy is, in that you would say to people, 'No, we're not going to have aged-care units. We're going to send your money off to'—I don't know—'Ningaloo Reef for some environmental offset.'
Right now we have tens of thousands of acres in the Upper Hunter where the cattle have been removed and they're just going to plant trees—
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