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

He leads with his chin. Every time you let him off the leash, he gives you problems; he gives you big problems. So I am going to quote from Fiona Simson again. Here it is—this is 1.28 pm, 1 December; that is pretty close: 'Incorrect; 13 per cent is your position, Mr Fitzgibbon. I support,' says the president of the NFF, '15 per cent or a rate that parliament decides. I urge parliament to get the job done.' So this is it—

Mr Shorten interjecting—

Once more, we have the Leader of the Opposition in here and on his first question he has said something which does not reflect the truth of what was said. Yet, still, he sits there with that smarmy look on his face and says, 'I can get away with it,' because it is all a game for the Labor Party. It is all a game about what happens in regional Australia. It does not matter what happens to those people. It does not matter what happens in the regional towns. It is just the numbers. It is just so they can blow the show up. It is all about them blowing the show up. It is the same type of person that follows the trait, and that is how the same person could let down the workers at Chiquita Mushrooms. That is how the same person could let down the people at Cleanevent. That is how the person could do a deal at the backdoor with McDonald's. It is the same way he actually made sure he got rid of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and then he got rid of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, so he could get himself into that chair. It was always about the Leader of the Opposition, the member for Maribyrnong. It was always about him—and here is his class 1 clown friend.

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