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

I think they are acting very well. Their acting is almost Shakespearean to some extent. The issue is that their acting and our legislation are two different things. I look forward with foreboding to your monitoring of how India and China actually go with their commitments. It will be something to watch someone tearing around about Hubei province or the Punjab to see how they are going with their carbon emissions. It is also going to be fascinating to see what we tell the United States when their depth of action, as you put it, is not quite what we expect when the Waxman-Markey bill finally finds its way, even if it does, out of the United States Senate. As far as the President of Brazil, I wish you all the best. These are all noble gestures. I note also with a sense of irony or paradox that I think if we did a correlation for all those nations that you just mentioned between the position taken by those nations at Kyoto and where they are now, it is going to be a rather depressing outcome for our nation.

To move on to another issue, with the amendment to exempt agriculture, is there anything exempted in that, Minister, that was not already not in place because your transition period was going to be 12 to 15 months? Is there anything in that exemption that would otherwise have been in place in 2011?