Why Barnaby Joyce wore cowboy boots in Parliament Barnaby Joyce dons cowboy boots in Parliament He said it was a jab at billionaire Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest READ MORE: Power bills to be slashed across Australia's southeastern states By Freddy Pawle For Daily Mail Australia Published: 06:20 EDT, 29 May 2024 | Updated: 06:36 EDT, 29 May 2024 e-mail View comments Barnaby Joyce was making more than a mere fashion statement when he wore a pair of cowboy boots in Parliament on Wednesday. The New England MP and former deputy prime minister said he donned the boots to protest billionaire Andrew ' Twiggy ' Forrest's proposed wind farms. Mr Joyce said he chose the boots over a pair of RM Williams to send a message to Mr Forrest, who owns the popular brand.
The mining magnate's Squadron Energy in January started works on the Uungala Wind Farm in New South Wales . Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce turned heads in parliament while sporting a pair of cowboy boots The renewables project is forecast to be the largest in the state upon completion, but Mr Joyce believes it will all just become 'future obsolete landfill'. Mr Joyce told 2GB that he got the idea while attending Beef Week in Rockhampton, Queensland.
'I don't mind (Mr Forrest) as a person but these wind farms are swindle factories,' Mr Joyce told Ben Fordham. 'They're just killing us in our in the country.' The Nationals MP recycled the 'swindle factory' comments from previous criticisms of wind farms' effect on power bills from March.
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