CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS
Mr JOYCE (New England) (16:48): Thank you very much, Deputy Speaker. Mr Khalil interjecting— Mr JOYCE: He continues on. It's not so much about Jurassic Park; it's what they're doing in sending us back to the cave.
That's what intermittents are doing. Don't you love the way they call them renewables? There's nothing renewable about them.
They actually take coal and iron ore and heaps of electricity to make, and when they're finished, they get buried, and blades get buried. They can't use them again. What I love about this is that it's like a religion.
It's a virtue that some people have. You should live your virtue. You should apply for wind towers to go in your seat.
Give a speech on it, that you want wind towers in your seat. I dare you. I'll get you unelected.
You can do it. Any of you can ask for wind towers in your seat. Why don't you?
You could put them off your beach. You wouldn't, and you wouldn't because you know it won't work. So why don't you?
An honourable member interjecting— Mr JOYCE: You can ask for wind towers off your seat. What's your seat? I'll take the interjection.
They'll never ask for wind towers off their seat because there's a hypocrisy of this, an oozing hypocrisy, and the oozing hypocrisy is getting worse. I hear that climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen today announced a 25 per cent increase in the size of capacity investment schemes. These secret agreements—these secret, dirty agreements which we never see the details of, which are never tabled—never show us exactly how much on the ticket the Australian taxpayer is.
You never tell us about it. Do you know why you don't tell us about it? Because you're ashamed of it.
That's why you don't tell us about it—because you know it's a dirty, secret little agreement to mates that you can't talk about. Otherwise, you would be transparent. We also hear that these capacity investment schemes are proving very popular.
I'm not surprised. I would like a capacity investment scheme for cattle—you'd get paid 90 per cent of the return on your place even if you don't produce cattle. There are hairdressers who would like to be paid 90 per cent of what they get from doing hair while they never have to turn up to work.
Bakers would like 90 per cent even if they don't produce a pie. What an incredible scheme! But it's going to streamline the auction process!
It is not happening fast enough, this swindle! We've got to speed it up! I say to the fourth estate: look under the bonnet on this stuff.
It's not about climate change and where you are on it; it's about whether you are going to let people get ripped off. I also note that the Labor Party are going to let us debate this out for as long as it takes. On that, I thank the Labor Party—genuinely, not in a smart-alec way.
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