TOPICS: Renewable energy, power prices, financial stress, ISIS brides, Minister Burke, transparency, Senate estimates, Victorian farmers, transmission projects, net zero, social cost, mental health

TOPICS: The Nationals' plan for cheaper, better, fairer energy policy, Net Zero, Paris Agreement, nuclear energy

Federal Labor’s consultation document admitted that an objective of their speed limit reduction proposal was to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even though some vehicles produce more emissions while travelling more slowly.

When governments make accusations against sitting MPs through faceless bureaucrats, you know you are reading absolute rubbish because the Minister hasn’t got the moral fibre to put her name to the accusation.

“Minister Watt also doesn’t understand that farmers are tremendous stewards of their land. Labor’s changes will only make it harder for farmers to actively manage their land and will promote poor environmental outcomes and increase bushfire risk

“The great irony here is that Labor are fast-tracking approval of renewable energy projects on native vegetation and prime agricultural land, supposedly to save the planet,”

“Labor has yet again paid lip service to the people of the Murray-Darling Basin – in their arrogance every cent of water buybacks is to buy the votes of inner-city environmentalists,”

Topics: Barnaby Joyce's decision to quit the National Party - Joyce's decision as Deputy PM to sign up for Net Zero - by-election in New England

Farmers are the absolute foundation of our food security and our nation. Migration policy should be strategic, coordinated and grounded in workforce planning, not piecemeal.