“What an incredible crowd.

First of all I’d like to thank the people who organised this – CATA ( Consumer and Tax payer Association) and most importantly,  I’d like to thank you who are not that tired that you are going to stay in bed and let your nation be taken away from you. I’d like to thank all the people from the local electorate who are so disgusted that their electorate is going to be part of a vote that will bring about this ludicrous tax and they’ve turned up here today.

I’d like to thank all the people who got in their cars – I’ve talked to people who came up from Sydney and who have come down from the coast. People who say, I’m going to make sure I’m part of the effort to change this. I’m going to put my shoulder to the wheel for my nation and I’m going to turn up and be counted.

Now, look at this, ladies and gentleman - what a beautiful day and the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing through your hair and we’re looking at the trees blowing in the wind. It’s amazing to know that down in Canberra, there’s someone who can change all that. There’s this omnipotent spirit - they live in the building with me and they can change the climate. They’re going to do it for us and of course the way they do it is they do it by making you poorer. They tax you and I was thinking about this, this morning. I went down for a walk on the beach and I was thinning about King Canute.

King Canute was hardly done by because he didn’t actually believe he could stop the tide – there were people around him who believed they could stop the tide and they said, King Canute you’re so incredibly smart even the tide would obey you. So he said well, I don’t know about that, so I’ll get you to take me down a chair. I’ll sit on the edge of the beach and see how we go and of course he went down to the beach and said – the tide can go this far and no further. Unfortunately the tide ran over the top of him.

He should have put up some sort of scheme – an Eliminate the Tide Scheme – an ETS to stop the tide and then he could go out and tax people. He could have said – well, if water goes down the drain, every time water goes down the drain, everyone with a drain -we’ll tax them to stop the ocean getting any bigger. This is the sort of lunacy we’ve got here and what we’re going to be doing if we go down this path.

Also, I noticed something else today, ladies and gentlemen. I picked up the paper and apparently a bloke called Tim is thinking about marrying a lady called Julia. I wish them all the best, I truly do. There’s nothing more I wish for everybody, happiness, I wish them happiness.

 But I tell you what really annoys me. Isn’t it funny how time gets a choice and Julia gets a choice but we don’t when we have to marry the carbon tax? Isn’t it funny Tim gets to talk about whether they will or they won’t in the paper, but we found out in the paper that we were getting married to a carbon tax and we had no choice whosoever.

See, in Australia, we like this idea of choice. We like the idea that if you’ve got something momentous you want to do in my life, you might actually give me a stay how I feel about it.

We can see right here how people feel about it. They don’t want to get shacked up with a carbon tax. I have the greatest respect for Bob Brown, Bob Brown wants a carbon tax Bob Brown wants a lot of things for this nation that would take us completely and utterly to destitution.

 

But how on earth did we end up with this government? This Green- Labor- independent government – the GLI club - the GLI club running our nation?

What happened? What happened at the start when Mr Oakeshott and Mr Windsor sais tho the Australian people said to their own electorates – on the important decisions we’ll go back to our electorates and be guided by them.

So which demonstration are Robert and Tony at today? There must be another one up the street…..But if they are to guided by their people, if they are to do the right things, and I don’t want this prevaricating dance they did last time, I had to pull my teeth out turning on the TV every night – will I or won’t I? I don’t know how whether I will or if I should. How do I get to the front of the church with this big fluffy white dress? I don’t know if I’m going to get married.

We don’t need this, WE just need them to be fair dinkum and say the people don’t want it. It’s not going to cool the planet, stop it.

Now ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been thinking about this. We’ve got to give them examples, so I’ve laid down a challenge to Rob, Tony and the greens.

If you can find one tax, one tax in the history pf humanity on the face of the earth that has changed the climate, you tell me about it. You find me one tax that has made the planet warmer or colder and then if you can just tell is how it did it. Because if taxes made the world colder, the place would be in iceblocks. Surely if taxes made the world colder we could just put up the taxes rate, if it’s too cold just reduce the tax and we’ll warm it back up again.

This is what these door to door swindlers are trying to sell us. These door to door swindlers are saying that a tax that makes you poorer that comes out of each one of your pockets, every power point in your house, a revenue collector for the government. Every time you turn on your kettle the government is collecting money from your cup of tea. Every time you iron a shirt for the kids to go to school the government is collecting money. Every time you transport something in a truck the government is colleting money. If you go on holidays its aviation fuel and so Julia is sitting in the wing with you.

The way they run this game is at the start they make you feel guilty. They come out and say look the world’s going to instantaneously combust, you’re the problem you’ve caused this but don’t argue with me otherwise you’re a denier. If you argue with me you’re an oddball. If you argue with me and these are all quotes from Labor party members, you’re a Ku Klux Klan member. If you argue with me you’re an extreme wing nut. If you argue with me you’re a dinosaur and they know about this because they’ve got one, a palaeontologist leading the charge on this – Mr Flannery. But the thing is people have had a gut full of being told they’re dinosaurs , KKK members and extremists so what they did, they went to the election in NSW and whatever is left is down in a miserable corner of Macquarie  Street at the moment.

Now ladies and gentlemen, what you’re asking for and I don’t want to get rid of the Labor Party. This is not a demonstration about the Labor Party; this is a demonstration about a ludicrous tax that is going to destroy our nation. Because I know that there are so many people in the past of the Labor party who have been good honest hard working supporters of the Labor Party and other people. They are furious that their party has taken them to this position. That’s why we’ve got to make sure they change this. People are not fools.

We know that in Australia we’ve got a few advantages. See we can’t complete with China or India or SE Asia in wages. We’re not going to pay our people 2 or 3 dollars for work. We believe they’re better than that. We don’t live where the massive populations are. We live on an island nation in the South Pacific that we are proud of. What we had in the past was cheap power. That was something we had that gave us an advantage to keep pour people employed. That kept the men and women of Australia at work. But what this crowd wants to do is make our power dearer. What are they saying? That our wages get cheaper? Is that what they want for us? Or are we just not going to have a job?

And then they tell us, no. They’re going to give us “Green jobs” and that’s where we really get annoyed. We’re going to be oiling windmills, making wind chimes. We’re going to be making wonderful things up in Nimbin and feeling the spirit of the ground and the spirit of the air.

No, the Australian people are fitters and turners, electricians, plasterers, plumbers, accountants, people who work in shops late into the night. There’re better than that and we want our capacity to take this country to a higher place.

These people - the Greens, the Labor, the Independents, look what they’ve done to our nation. Now I find that our nation’s credit card is a quarter of a trillion dollars - $250 billion because of their stuff ups.

Ladies and gentlemen, I think there one other group we have to be concerned about here today, because there are people in Australia who cannot afford power at the price it is at the moment. There are people in this nation now as the weather gets colder who stay in bed longer because they cannot afford to turn the heater on and that is disgusting.

So this is it and this is why people are out today because we know the people who are doing it tough already. We know the people who can’t get by already. We know the people are really struggling to pay their power bills, good people who sweep the front verandah who prune their roses, who wash their clothes. But they have to, through the ignominy of a government who makes the fundamentals of their life near impossible to afford.

Also ladies and gentleman we’re going to keep the pressure on this government. We are going to force this government to change. We are going to force this government to change!

The Australian people are so tolerant, so disciplined, they’re so polite, they are so incredible, they are so hard to stir up but the Greens and the Labor and the Independents have stirred up the Australian people and they’re awake and they’re moving.

So I say to Julia and I say to Tony Windsor and to Rob Oakeshott and Bob Brown, and I have to admit I’m not hot for Bob like Julia is to him, if they - Julia and Tim get the right to a choice, if they get the right to say yes or no, and they have the ability to make choice on a fundamental in their life, then we want a choice too, and we want the right to kick them out.

 Thank you and God Bless.”