Q&A last week - update with transcript

It appears that ABC is still trying to transcribe the words.... is this a record?

I can't wait to post Barnaby Joyce's retorts to some other members of the panel.

BARNABY JOYCE: Sarah, people want the jobs they've got at the moment. They want to be able to meet their house payment. You cannot just completely...

SARAH HANSON-YOUNG: Barnaby, you've got to pull your head out of the sand, mate. You really do.

BARNABY JOYCE: No. Well - no.

SARAH HANSON-YOUNG: I think...

BARNABY JOYCE: Sarah, I'm just supporting the -
I'm just supporting the people, the mine workers that I thought the Labor Party would be looking after who - who want to keep...

SARAH HANSON-YOUNG: Wouldn't it be better...

BARNABY JOYCE: ...making their house payments, want to make the payments on their car, who cannot just get out from Mackay and start building photovoltaic cells and wind chimes at Nimbin because you believe in it.

SARAH HANSON-YOUNG: Look, that's exactly why, Barnaby - that's exactly why we need a government to take the leadership, to invest in the new jobs of the future.

BARNABY JOYCE: But...

SARAH HANSON-YOUNG: The old thinking is pitching the environment against the economy.

BARNABY JOYCE: But this policy...

SARAH HANSON-YOUNG: The environment against jobs.

BARNABY JOYCE: ...where you want to go just takes them out...

SARAH HANSON-YOUNG: We're past that. We are so, so past that, Barnaby.

BARNABY JOYCE: ... it doesn't - it doesn't put them in a new job. It just takes them out of their job and into poverty.

Here's the link. Barney acquitted himself well.

Going for Garrett, earlier in the transcript:

PETER GARRETT: Look, yeah, and a couple of other things quickly. A renewable energy target. 20 per cent of renewable energy by 2020. A significant increase in renewables, which is absolutely critical, and that will see significant investment in renewables that Sarah has been talking about. But, additionally, one of the most significant insulation - home insulation programs that we've got underway, ceiling insulation - we're going to have ceiling insulation in about 2.2 million Australian homes; more solar panels...

PRU GOWARD: That's an ad.

PETER GARRETT: ...on roofs of Australian homes...

PRU GOWARD: Cut the advertising.

PETER GARRETT: ...more solar panels on communities than at any time in our history.

BARNABY JOYCE: But look...

PETER GARRETT: Hang on. And...

BARNABY JOYCE: Peter, where are you going to put the 20,000 workers from the Illawarra who lose their job because of your five per cent emission target? Whereabouts do they start building photovoltaic cells?

PETER GARRETT: Well, actually, I'm really interested, Barnaby, to hear you putting this view because the great difficulty that we have with the coalition is that they don't - and we've got two different positions at this table tonight. We don't have a consistent position on climate change at all. Barnaby thinks the world is going to end and that unemployment is going to go up by 20,000 if we have a price for carbon in the market. What is...

BARNABY JOYCE: No, that's just in the Illawarra.