Senator Matt Canavan

Today we remember the more than 100,000 Australians who lost their lives defending our great nation. We owe our freedom, our wealth and our independence to their sacrifice. It is a debt that we can never repay, but it is important that we take time to remember their sacrifice as we do today on the anniversary of the WWI armistice. The best way we can honour them is by working to maintain the strength and unity of the marvellous country they have left us.

If the Labor party can renegotiate a UK free trade deal that has been ratified for years re backpackers, why can't they renegotiate a EU deal that has not yet been ratified for our dairy farmers?

The US midterms are a political earthquake that will reverberate for some time. At its heart is the complete rejection of another failed Middle East war that has worsened the living standards of working people. I was against the conflict from the get-go. I wrote in March, just days after the war began, that “We should focus more on improving our self-sufficiency before getting involved in another war halfway around the world.” Others were gung-ho. Pauline Hanson said that the conflict in Iran was “our problem” and that we should help Trump “stamp out the evil that is happening throughout the world.” The lesson from the US is that at a time of an unprecedented fall in our living standards we must focus on improving the Australian people’s lot in life before anything else. That means a laser-like, Australia-first approach. We do not have the luxury to go on side quests right now like trying to change the temperature of the globe, or solving centuries-long conflicts in faraway lands. We have enough problems here in Australia before we start worrying about other people’s problems, or trying to do things we cannot control. Angus Taylor and I have a plan that won’t seek to revolutionise the world, it will just make your life better. We will focus on the jobs of Australian workers and the budgets of Australian families. I like to call it a Hyper Australia approach. We will cut taxes to get more Australian jobs created. We will scrap net zero to use more Australian energy and get inflation down. We will slash migration so Australian homes and Australian hospitals are available for Australians again. There is a lot wrong in our country but there is nothing that cannot be fixed by just doing more Australia. As leader of the Nationals my promise is to focus on you first, second and third.

Even the experts are now saying that Labor's net zero agenda is failing. It's time we have an energy policy that focuses on the cost of living DOWN!

CQ First. Australia Always.

I'm putting it all on the line for Central Queensland and our nation... teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/2AMXQdQoO…

One year ago today The Nationals voted to oppose net zero at our national conference. We did so because net zero is pushing up power prices, costing our jobs and destroying the environment that it is meant to protect. Getting rid of net zero will allow us to use our coal and gas again to lower electricity prices. It will cut government waste and spending to lower inflation and interest rates. And it will let us drill for oil again so we can defend our nation. Everything will be better when we get rid of net zero.

The Labor party tried to switch the Whyalla blast furnace from coal to renewable power. A few years later it shut. We won't keep our manufacturing jobs based on power sources that are dependent on the weather. We need to scrap net zero.

What the hell is going on with One Nation lately? One of their members, David Farley, refuses to rule out switching to Labor! One Nation is openly suggesting they may support a European free trade deal that would make the Paris Agreement legally binding on us. One Nation keep hiring people from the big banks. And months after releasing their migration policy, One Nation still refuses to say what their Net Overseas Migration figures would be. The Coalition plans to cut Net Overseas Migration to the lowest level of all. This week the PM called me a "nativist". I don't know what that means, but I do lead a team of proud patriots in The Nationals. We are the only ones saying no to eurocrat control of our energy and industry, no to the globalist migration policies of Labor, and no to Labor's big-spending, high-inflation policies. The Nationals make no apologies that we are proud of our country, and we will back Australia first above all else. We need to put patriots back in control.

How good is the new, kinder and gentler Parliament? Instead of letting me live rent free in his head, why can't Labor's trade minister just get a better deal for our farmers. Our great dairy farmers today have asked Labor to just carve them out of the EU deal. This deal would hurt not help them. No deal is better than a bad deal.

Today, Michelle Landry announced that she would not re-contest the seat of Capricornia at the next election. Michelle is the fiercest local political fighter in the Parliament, and I will be sad not to have her fighting next to me in the next parliamentary term. Michelle has spent 13 years fighting for her electorate, and the secret of her success is that she never gives up. Michelle’s never-say-die attitude has delivered Rookwood Weir, the Rocky Ring Road, the Adani Carmichael mine, the Yeppoon foreshore, beef roads, the Sugar Code of Conduct and over $6 billion in local infrastructure. For too long, Central Queensland had been ignored. Michelle put Central Queensland on the map. Michelle is not leaving today, and she announced that she is still fighting for an international airport and a North Rockhampton hospital. Michelle is a true local champion. Thank you to everyone who has supported Michelle and our team. Your support has helped us deliver for CQ.

My heart goes out to Helen Haines and her family tonight upon the news of this shocking attack. Helen is a hardworking and considerate Member of Parliament. I pray for her full recovery from this traumatic time.

Labor's Trade Minister just said that he can't ask the EU for a better trade deal because of the riots in Paris ... 🤪 The proposed Australia - EU trade deal has been widely panned by Aussie farmers.

The esafety commissioner has lost multiple court cases and been found to be acting beyond her legal authority. That deserves strong criticism and she should have lost her job long ago for such repeated mismanagement and failures.

Labor hasn't listened to small business on the impact of its disastrous budget but maybe they will listen to their nervous MPs who are now leaking like sieve.

We live in a beautiful country ♥️🇦🇺 Walked up to Gibraltar Rock today and it was a perfect Canberra day

We must change the law to protect Australian coal jobs and Australian coal exports. Labor's net zero approach has led to fewer jobs, higher bills and a decimated natural environment. We will introduce a Scrap Net Zero Bill when Parliament returns and take charge of Australia again.

I don't blame Chris. His whole approach as energy minister is to back energy sources that switch off unexpectedly