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

The Labor Party are arrogant. They have shown no semblance of wanting to engage with this Senate in a constructive package. They have come in here with a gun-to-the-head mentality, showing that this is exactly how they are going to deal with the situation. And in the process we have shown to the Australian people a relationship between the Greens and the Labor Party that is delivered when required, where the Greens do the Labor Party’s bidding, even if it means the Greens have to sell their own people down the tube. That is one of the things that must be brought to light.

This is an arrogant Labor government. It is a government that has no interest in being open and transparent. They are holding a gun to the head of this Senate. They are currently trying to work-over Senator Xenophon. That is the approach that they are taking to the Australian people, and it has not taken them too long to get there. But one thing the Australian people understand clearly is that $200 billion worth of debt is very hard to repay. My question to the Labor Party is: what are you going to sell to pay this debt back? What do you have in mind to sell in order to pay back this Labor Party debt? You know where you are taking us. You know what you are doing to this nation. You know how deeply you are putting us into debt.