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

This bankers, bureaucrats and brokers scheme that the Labor Party have concocted is going to do absolutely nothing for the environment and is going to do everything for a certain clique of people who no doubt they have had long discussions with. We will use every minute of every day to try and convince the Australian people to go on that journey, to clearly explain what happens to our economy if this thing were ever to come into place. If this thing ever comes into place, it is regional Australia—your seats, Labor seats—that will get flushed down the toilet. You do not care about that—and all for a gesture; all for a gesture that does absolutely nothing for our environment but does everything for your ego.