The spectre of a $100 lamb roast helped the Coalition win the 2013 election. Will ‘foreign-owned swindle factories’ have a similar effect in 2025?
Barnaby Joyce speaking at an anti-renewable energy forum in 2023. He has told people in his electorate ‘we are in the firing line for becoming the government’s swindle factories playpen.’Barnaby Joyce speaking at an anti-renewable energy forum in 2023. He has told people in his electorate ‘we are in the firing line for becoming the government’s swindle factories playpen.’ongue twisters were a staple in my childhood home. Fox in Socks by Dr Seuss was a favourite.
“No one in Canberra can hear you from Wollomin or Walcha, no one in Canberra cares about what happens at Doughboy Mountain. You are only scary when you are up close and prepared to do something about it,” he told his constituents.I thought ensuring people in Canberra could hear community concerns was literally his job. Leaving that aside, he said “these are people who are about to make billions and billions of dollars from the rollout of intermittent unreliable power to make money”.
(It’s also worth noting that not all of the windfarms Joyce opposes are foreign owned: he’s so upset about “Twiggy” Forrest’s Squadron Energy And right there is the point. A little fun at the man’s expense – especially in an august organ such as this – will help him enormously in his own electorate. But I live to serve our country readers, and he is an influential member of theportion of rural people are pissed off
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