Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I listened to it the other day. The winged monkeys are fed, the green goggles are on, and we're off to an election. I listened to the Prime Minister. It was like an alternate universe. He said, 'The inflation crisis is fixed!' Has he spoken to anybody trying to pay for fuel? Has he spoken to anybody trying to pay for their groceries? Has he had a yarn to anybody trying to pay their power bill? Has he talked to someone who's trying to pay their rent or buy a house? It is the most distracted, disconnected statement I have heard in a long while, from a person who must have a dartboard with those sucky darts with all the Labor Party members on it, because, with everything he's done in the last month, it has been completely within his control to try and remove his colleagues from office. It's been an absolute cartwheeling disaster.

Then the Labor Party comes up and says, 'Well, what's your plan?' We have one of the biggest plans for Australia: the nuclear plan. We're looking to all the countries using nuclear power—the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and countries throughout Europe. If we're lucky, we might catch up to Ghana and Bangladesh, who are also going down the path of developing nuclear power. But, no, we're going to hang around instead. There are two notable countries who don't want nuclear power—Australia and New Zealand.

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