Dear Senator Joyce,

Please maintain your stand. You're on a winner here.

I voted Labor in the 1970s and 80s, then I voted Lib through the 90s and 2000s. However, I am a voter who believes in conviction politics, and the Nats seem to be now learning that conviction earns votes. Stick with it.

A couple of issues about the imbalance I perceive in the carbon trading scheme and associated debate.

Rural production has the ability to store more carbon than it emits by the current move to sustainable farming. As acid based water soluble fertilizers get more expensive the alternatives being used such as pasture cropping, cell or rotational grazing, no till farming without herbicides etc soil carbon will increase significantly. Agreed there is no accepted way of accurate measuring but this will come.
A major problem is the many hooks the chemical industry has into government (ie big unemployment if we stop selling their products) and the middlemen in product selling to the farming community with financial backup and so called extension. Further the city based location of their chemical production.

Another problem is that the rural communities are not the polluters it is the city or major urban areas. If there is to be a tax on carbon dioxide equivalent emissions then let it fall where it is produced. It is the rampant consumption of the urban population that is the problem not by comparison the clean rural areas. So those people should be taking measures to curb their pollution. By way of an analogy SEQ was told they would run out of water unless they reduced consumption to 140 litres per day. Guess what they achieved the target. So use a similar method of target setting to reduce the CO2 equivalents by urban populations. The rural or farming sector can achieve their target by moving to and achieving sustainable farming practices.

On balance ensure the broad acre/ low intensity grazing sector is never included in any ETS.farming sector.

I suport your position against the proposed legislation.

I wouldn't vote for it either. How does thousands of tons of carbon stay up in the air anyway?

Dear Senator Joyce,

I absolutely agree with David Matthews. I don't know him personally by the way, but am a student (aged) into organic agricultural practices. The Methane gas tax of $7 per head of sheep and $15 per head of cattle is stupid when the soil carbon sequestration ability of open pasture lands is not being included in carbon credits.

Although recent TV ads on ABC suggest that meat eating adds to climate
change via methane production (how petty) supported by vegans, and the Greens, I would like to ask, soil carbon sequestration contributes to 60% of the carbon sink globally. Animal manures contribute to the soil microbiology that contributes to soil health and fertility.

Please vote against this legislation as it is deeply flawed, as is the whole hypothesis regarding climate change causation factors being solely generated
by human activity.

Dear Senator Joyce,
Thank you for remaining sane during these peculiar times.

Methane, as mentioned by Pat, could actually be counteracted in agriculture to a great degree by the appropriate selection of dung beetles. There is research into this, but of course, it's not as glamorous or tradeable as an ETS (extra tax scam).

All the money thus far wasted on ALP chest beating regarding AGW could've been put towards improving best practice in industry, developing new technologies and supporting Australian jobs, instead of sending them offshore.

Keep up the good fight.

Dear Sir,
I congradulate you on your stand to vote against the Emissions Trading issue, I support you. The rest of the coalition members in both houses must also make a united stand against it also if they believe they have any hope of any success in the next election. Sincerely, Richard Ferris.

Dear Sir,
Well done.
I just hope the Nationals are standing a candidate in Makin.

Contrats on making a stand for commonsense. We can't control the climate by raising tax or by any other method!

The voice of reason in Canberra! Unfortunately I am not one of your constituents (I am from NSW and from the city also).

If only more National Senate candidates were more independent in their thinking and made this clear to the public. I would split my voting ticket in the Senate in a heartbeat.

Thank you Barnaby for standing up to fight against this ETS farce. It is good to see that the LNP will be opposing this nonsense. Thank God you are in the senate.

Everyone talks about carbon when they mean carbon dioxide - a colourless tasteless odourless gas - plant food, our lives depend on it. Presently it forms about 4 parts in 10,000 by volume of the atmosphere. Of this miniscule amount 1 part in 10,000 is posited as the amount contributed by humans. Of this 1 part in 10,000 Australia owns about 1 per cent. Our Govt thinks that by messing around with 1% of 1 part of 10,000 in the atmosphere we will be showing the way. What hubris!!! It is all about money - ours - and how they will take it from us.

Good on you Barnaby perhaps you should have a go at the seat of New ENGLAND

Dear Sir,
Congratulations on your stand against the madness that is the ETS, in any form.

No to a ets just another tax.