BARNABY JOYCE: The Convoy of No Confidence that will arrive in Canberra today is the inevitable consequence of a population that is just sick to the back teeth of what is happening to their country.
Those participating are not nasty, they just want the government gone. They are regular truck drivers, regular people who are making a political point. They are driving to Canberra to ask the government to do the decent thing and go to an election. It is like when a relationship breaks down; Australians are saying they want out, or more to the point they want the government out.
I want to remind those living outside these centres that they have changed the direction of their country over the past few years.
In 2009, it was regional Australia that first stood against Kevin Rudd's emissions trading scheme, leading to its eventual defeat on the floor of the Senate. It was regional Australia that last year stood up against a Murray-Darling Basin Plan that was going to destroy the nation's food bowl. And this year it was regional Australia that stood up against plans to end our live cattle trade, notwithstanding the devastation that was caused during the four weeks in which Four Corners ran the country.
All of these changes came about by the force of ordinary regional Australians standing up against the nihilistic and negative vision of this government, which seems to want to shut down economic activity in regional Australia.
The only way to stop the carbon tax, to change the government and to get the nation back on track is for everyone to do what they can to make it happen.
Whether that is coming to Canberra on Monday, calling your local Labor or Independent MP or writing to your local paper, every little effort helps.
* Senator Barnaby Joyce, Leader of The Nationals in the Senate
