Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw—they know what they are doing. Do you honestly believe that the Australian Labor Party believes that the best form of economic advice they can get, rather than from the member for McMahon, is from Senator Jacqui Lambie from Tasmania? Is that now the vessel—the economic light—of the Labor Party?

Why are they doing this when they went to the election proposing a 32½ per cent tax? Why did they go to the election with a 32½ per cent per cent tax and now they are proposing a 10½ per cent tax for no other reason than to destroy the deal that is done so that we can start work and start getting the fruit off the trees? Are these the sorts of actions of a prospective leader of our nation that they would do something like this? It is the absolute height of hypocrisy that someone could say something like that and then say that his mantra is looking after Australian jobs and looking after Australian workers. All we see now is someone who is an immense disappointment, because when he had the chance to stand up, when he had the chance to be decent, he could not help it but just be what he is.

Mr Brian Mitchell interjecting—

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