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

This chamber will do its job in reviewing and amending legislation, and it will have the appropriate time and will follow the appropriate process. What we currently have with the Australian Labor Party is the $8.5 billion in extra costs and the $5.5 billion in savings from households, a $14 billion turnaround. They want to bulldoze that through. They do not want anybody to look at it. They do not want this Senate to do its job in reviewing and amending legislation and representing the rights of the people in determining how their money is spent. They know that the jig is up on the ETS, because the Australian people have seen through it. They are showing the Australian people just how arrogant they have become, showing the Australian people just how duplicitous they have become, showing the Australian people how they are willing to put aside the aspirations that are overwhelmingly seen in polls, where 60 per cent of people want a delay till after Copenhagen. But the Australian people want the appropriate policy response. They do not agree that this is appropriate and they do not agree that this is good for our nation.

It is now the Labor Party against the world—the Labor Party against the Liberal Party, the National Party, the Greens and the Independents. But the Labor Party believe that they are the benevolent source of information, even though they brought this deal and are trying to ram it through with this belligerent, arrogant response. Correct me if I am wrong: you intend for us to sit here nonstop. Is that right or is that wrong? The silence is deafening.