Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

They are supporting this motion. It is good that we are having this debate. But what is it all about? It is about selling Australia’s future, putting us in hock for up to $200 billion.

In my former life I was an accountant and all the time I would have people coming to see me and saying, ‘I think I am in so much trouble I may lose my house.’ One in the unfortunate things you would have to say to them is: ‘Yes, you are going to lose your house; it is gone. You are so deep in debt. You are out of control and you are drowning in debt.’ And Australia is that house for all of us; it is our communal house. Yet the Labor Party today are marching us towards a point of no return. They know of the view out there that this excessive debt is going to have huge ramifications for the future of this country. And the only people who are selling out—