Agriculture and mining behind high ‘standard of living’: Barnaby’s reality check for Labor

Agriculture and mining behind high ‘standard of living’: Barnaby’s reality check for Labor

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce says the rationale Australia has a excessive “standard of living” is because of the intensive export of beef, coal, cotton, and iron ore.

“That allows us to pay for the NDIS, sustains our GDP, your health, your security, your defence,” Mr Joyce advised Sky News host Caleb Bond.

“There is a wholesale attack on basically the economic reality of our nation.

“We have to become as strong as possible as quickly as possible”