Susan McDonald (Queensland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Resources) Share this | Hansard source

I look forward to having that explained further to me. Labor is telling regional people and businesses here that a war 12,000 kilometres away is why they have to break a key election promise made 97 times. Regional people have a nose for political spin, and these excuses stink. Power prices are going up by more than 50 per cent, gas prices are going up by more than 40 per cent, taxes up, employment up, interest rates up and inflation up. But there's one thing that's not going up: under Labor, real wages are not going up.

Labor wants to cut Australia's methane emissions, but this will be impossible if they continue with these excuses and lies. On the upside, at least our meat herds won't need culling; we'll just need Labor to stop talking! The regions have smaller populations—