Well, it’s Christmas, and I hope you all have a chance to spend time with your family, but I understand that this year, many are finding it very financially tight. You have had to budget more than usual, so I hope all are aware, so unaffordable wishes are avoided.  

Unless Canberra drops this intermittent power fantasy – delving out your money to billionaire organisations, with you paying through the nose for their power – then the cost-of-living issue will not get better.

Renewables are not renewable – they are intermittent – and they don’t work if what you want is affordable power. 

I know many of you in the New England look forward to my annual rainfall chart. A4 and A3 sizes can be supplied by my Tamworth and Tenterfield offices or download a copy from this website at 2025 RAINFALL CHART - Barnaby Joyce

I hope you get a chance to go to the river, throw in a canoe and have some time with your family. I hope you get a chance to get everyone sitting around for Christmas lunch.  

Very importantly, I hope all remember that Christmas is a celebration that the Son of God came into the world and changed it for the better forever. 

We make mistakes when we think we know better.  It is not “Season’s Greetings”. That is when you say hello to the seasoning in the backside of the Christmas turkey.

“Happy Holidays” is any time, possibly most weekends.

It is Christmas, so Merry Christmas!