Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

You can interject and I can understand why you would, because you have been prosecuting this case, but the fact is that this massive new tax will not change the temperature of the globe. This massive new tax that you are putting on working families will put working families out of work, will make pensioners poorer and will put family farmers off the farm. This is when the reality of the economy comes up to mug you. The reality of the economy is that we are an exporting nation. We rely on the export, predominantly, of our mineral wealth. Yet what does this massive new tax attack—the capacity for us to export.

This is what we have. The Labor Party has said to us, ‘We will replace those mining jobs in Western Australia, those mining jobs in Queensland, those mining jobs in the Hunter Valley’—mind you, there are Labor seats in the Hunter Valley, including Minister Combet’s—‘the jobs of the working families in the Hunter Valley, the jobs of the working families in the Illawarra and the jobs of the working families in Dawson with green jobs.’