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

You were just lucky that day! Wind blowing in the right direction—aren't you a lucky fella that you had service at some stage! You should say, 'Thank you very much,' that, in the past, your mobile phone worked. Now, it won't.

You see the sense of cynicism that regional politicians have about that, because, immediately, the dials change. Now, of course, it's back to the swindle factories, intermittent power precincts, and wind turbines and solar panels. 'It'll all be fine. Don't worry. Everything will work well,' once they're decommissioned and fall over in the paddock. 'It'll all work well,' once the bisphenol A and the microplastics blow over your fields so you can't sell your stock in the saleyards because it's contaminated. That has happened. We have to actually come up with a plan to keep our cattle away from the wind towers because they are poisonous, so you don't eat it. You've got about a teaspoon of microplastics in your head at the moment, and they don't want you to have any more. They don't tell you about that little bit, do they? No. All you see is a happy picture of the wind turbine. You're eating the plastics from it, but don't worry—

I don't know why you're laughing about that. I can show you—we have to sign a declaration because it brings on Alzheimer's disease. Is that not a concern?

Okay, I'll take you up on that. I'll give you the report. I'll send it through to your office.

Yes, it has!

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