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

I thought it was a grievance debate, so I've got a grievance, after hearing the member for Fraser. I've got a grievance, that you're putting your swindle factories—your so-called windfarms—all over our countryside. I've got a grievance, that you're painting our fields a photovoltaic black. I've got a grievance, that you're running transmission lines hell west and crooked through our country. I've got a grievance, that people in our area can't afford their power and, basically, are going cold in the middle of winter. I put to the member for Fraser: if you think these are such great ideas—these swindle factories, these photovoltaic fields of black—then put them in the seat of Fraser. Take one wind tower and put it up there. But, no; you want to pay for your virtue by inflicting the problem on us.

Karen Andrews (McPherson, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The time for the grievance debate has expired. The debate is interrupted in accordance with standing order 192B. The debate is adjourned, and the resumption of the debate will be made an order of the day for the next sitting.

Federation Chamber adjourned at 19:30