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

They're talking now! I've got their ears now, oh yes. I'm looking forward to it. I kind of know how to do this job. I've had a little bit of practice. You saw it the other week. I'm only warming up.

Government members interjecting—

Oh no, I'm coming. You won't be laughing so much when I turn up in your electorate, mate.

So now we have to see how we can actually build up this balance sheet. There is nothing in this budget for dams. They took away the money for freight rail. They have no idea about substantiating the nation's balance sheet. They go to the profit and loss and go to expenses and give out cost-of-living measures. They don't know how to generate the wealth on the balance sheet, so they go to the revenue side and put up the taxes to pay for their promises, literally giving money with one hand and ripping it out of the same person's pocket with the other.

Let us go to the other thing that's really going to hurt people in regional areas. As was said earlier, in the town of Woolbrook we have poor people with a very meagre house on five acres. Their house is now up for the Treasurer to take his swing at it. This is a disgrace.

Government members interjecting—

You don't know because you don't know what poor people look like. You've never been around them. This is the issue. I want to say it to people out there: this is the Labor Party that's supposed to understand you. Don't you love it? Might I remind the Labor Party that your vote is around about 30 per cent—you are on ice. You don't understand them, and that's why you've rubbed their noses in the dirt. You have rubbed their noses in the dirt. You are arrogant without any foresight as to what you're doing to people. (Time expired)

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