Barnaby Joyce (New England, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

It was Slim Dusty who said, '… there's-a nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer.' But there is. It's to stand at the bar of a pub with no patrons. If we don't start doing something about the cost of the fundamental core reason why people go to a hotel, there won't be patrons there because the obvious place to be will be to stand at the bottle shop with the slab with no fear, rather than the pub with no beer. Where the local hotel resides is embellished in the Australian psyche. We talk about it in everything from Crocodile Dundee to 'Priscilla of the desert'—what's that one?

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