John Hogg (Queensland, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

All you have done, Senator Joyce, is go out and beat up the issue because you do not have positive policies to put before the people in south-east Queensland. That is what this inquiry was about, and that is where the weakness is from your side. Some of the things that people over on your side have attributed to and said about people like me today are completely wrong. There were two recommendations out of this inquiry, Senator Joyce, and maybe you should learn how to read before you go out verballing me in the public arena. If you read this report properly you would see that anything that you have said about me and my attitude towards this is completely wrong. There are two recommendations, and only two, and they do not reflect the comments that have been made more latterly by Senator Trood and by Senator Joyce when he was out there doing what he does best—getting on the radio and trying to drum up some business and some votes to keep the National Party alive in south-east Queensland and in Queensland in general. That is what this inquiry was all about. The sooner that is recognised the better.

As for Senator Trood going back and trying to blame Mr Rudd for the Wolffdene Dam, Senator Trood knows that that is nonsense as well. We have had no sincerity from the government in this debate at all. It has been purely fabricated by them to try and draw some support for their candidates, for a failing party in south-east Queensland, a party that cannot get on in the state government arena. I will terminate my remarks there.

Question agreed to.