Ralph Babet (Victoria, United Australia Party) Share this | Hansard source

I stand with our farmers. Farmers are the backbone of our nation. If farmers don't farm, citizens don't eat. That's why the war being waged on farmers by our government must end. Enough of ordering them to reduce emissions, enough of telling them what they can and cannot export and how, and enough of covering prime agricultural land with panels, poles, wires and turbines. It's madness. If you want to eat bugs, then keep going, like Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum wants you to do. If you like real food, though, and if you value a healthy life, support the farmers. Who would you rather trust: a hardworking farming family who are farming the land and producing food for our dinner plates or inner-city, soy-latte-sipping, woke activists who worry that cow farts are causing sea levels to rise as they preen their man buns?