Senate debates
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2]
In Committee
10:25 pm
Barnaby Joyce (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source
With all due respect, my voting against the bill is not the issue. I am here on behalf of the Australian people, and specifically the people of Queensland, to ask questions of the executive—of which you are a part. The job here is that I ask the questions and you answer them.
Now we have got the situation where if there is a lightning strike, and I see the lightning strike, it is a natural start to a fire—if I let it get away and it burns out half of New South Wales or half of Queensland that is a natural occurrence and I should not worry about it—but if I drop a cigarette butt—and I know you should not smoke—that is an unnatural fire and it must be accounted for. Who is going to be wandering around the scrub to determine which fires are natural and which ones are unnatural?
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