Senator Matt Canavan also said landholders who took part in carbon farming – a policy the government is supporting – would “retire to the coast” and spend their money in “the Gold Coast or eastern suburbs of Sydney”, rather than in regional communities.
— Read on www.farmonline.com.au/story/7326181/senior-national-admits-farmers-are-not-partys-core-constituency/

The biggest threat to nation’s future in next 10 to 20 years was not climate change, Senator Canavan said, it was aggression from China.

“That’s the biggest risk to our peace, prosperity and security,” he said.