Barnaby Joyce

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1. Federation Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 14 September 2026

   • Environmental water motion: Member for Farrer: one‑off reallocation

     “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I, it's a great pleasure that I second this motion and note that communities such as Dirranbandi and St George, where I once lived, are so reliant also that the Murray-Darling Basin, people should be…”

     Watch from 45:27

2. House of Representatives Chamber (part 3 of 3) · Australian Parliament · 9 September 2026

   • Adjournment: personal statement to Member for Canning and critique of capital gains tax exemptions

     “Well, thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, and it's rather disappointing that I have to give this dissertation on a concern about today. I kind of don't know where to start. My point in this building is to deal with…”

     Watch from 3:00:38

3. Federation Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 7 September 2026

   • Crossbench comment: Joyce: need for regional psychologists

     “Oh yes, briefly. I just think it's really important, just in light of circumstances we've seen in the last month or so at home where we've had three suicides unfortunately, tragically, that we really should put as much attention into…”

     Watch from 3:02:37

4. House of Representatives Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 17 August 2026

   • Renewable energy precincts motion: Barnaby Joyce’s opposition

     “Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I move the motion relating to renewable energy, intermittent power, precincts in the terms in which it appears in the notice paper. Mr. Speaker, it's amazing. I read today that now the Greens in…”

     Watch from 1:16:18

   • Question Time I: housing prices and superannuation policy

     “Well, thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Manager of Government Business representing the Minister for the Environment and Water. Now, I've heard today you've been talking about your support for workers. So I put the…”

     Watch from 4:37:35

5. Federation Chamber (part 2 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 11 August 2026

   • Constituency statement: safeguard mechanism and heavy industry

     “Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise today to talk about two issues. I was speaking to management in the coal mining industry in the Hunter Valley at Muswellbrook. And they talked about how their future and the…”

     Watch from 15:54

6. Federation Chamber (part 1 of 2) · Australian Parliament · 11 August 2026

   • Grievance debate opened: Joyce attacks renewables policy

     “Well thank you very much Madam Deputy Speaker and today is an act of genuine grievance. I had the displeasure in the last couple of days to once more return to my electorate where we see the infliction that's happened…”

     Watch from 12:19

   • Regional impacts: wind farms, camps and property values

     “It's getting a, it's getting a little bit of an influx of people. They're going to come in demountables, we call them dongas. One thousand two hundred beds going into a village of three hundred and one people. None of…”

     Watch from 14:36

   • Land access, EnergyCo and secret capacity investment scheme

     “There are whole sections of these swindle factories that just don't work. But it doesn't worry them because the capacity investment scheme covers for it. Now why do people hate Australia so much to do this to us? What did…”

     Watch from 18:25
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