Barnaby Poll

Joyce 3

Transcript

00:00One thing I'd like to thank is the staff of the AEC. You do an incredible job and isn't this a

00:06wonderful nation when we just know that you're honourable people who will do the honest thing

00:12and there's no one hawking over you and scared that things are going to disappear and blah blah

00:18blah blah blah. You just know that they're honourable people who will do the best job

00:22and come out with the right outcome and whatever they say is correct. We have to acknowledge the

00:27Labor Party won, won overwhelmingly. It wasn't a good campaign for the National Party. We went from

00:3322 seats at the end of the 22 election to 19 after the 1st of July. So that wasn't good. People

00:39re-spin it. They shouldn't. The Liberal Party was devastating and congratulations to the Labor Party.

00:45We have to acknowledge that. Acknowledging how you went is the first step of redeeming yourself

00:51to the Australian people. To the people of New England, we actually got a swing towards us

00:55and that's incredibly humbling and it also meant that in new areas after the redistribution,

01:05especially in Musselbrook, we actually got a massive swing towards us. I think we should reflect on one

01:11of the key policies there because there's a difference in world views that happens in politics.

01:15One of the key things for Musselbrook was actually promise them a nuclear power station. They want it.

01:19They want it because they want the boilermaker jobs, the fitters and turns jobs, the electrician jobs.

01:24They already operate power plants. They know how they operate. They know that a power plant has a

01:29car park chock-a-block full of cars with people on incredibly good wages and don't we all want that?

01:34But an intermittent power precinct, wind towers, solar panels has no car park because no one works there.