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

and we have got others yelling across the chamber because the Labor Party have been unable to engage with the Australian people as to how this massive new tax on Australian working families, on Australian pensioners and on Australian farming families—on those who can least afford it—can change the temperature of the globe. Labor are now finding it very galling that their minister has been unable to prosecute this debate about how this massive new tax will change the parts per million of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. There are myriad ways that we can have a better environmental outcome. Senator Fielding has properly pointed out that they need to be appropriately addressed, but a royal commission is not the appropriate place, nor is the Productivity Commission, with the time we have left prior to Copenhagen. So at this point in time the National Party will not be supporting Senator Fielding’s amendment.