New England MP Barnaby Joyce has made an unexpectedly big statement by wearing a pair of cowboy boots in parliament, in a protest of billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s proposed windfarms.
After a picture of Gold Coast member Angie Bell appearing to ask Joyce about his fashion statement in parliament emerged, 2GB’s Ben Fordham investigated why he was wearing the boots.
Joyce explained that he didn’t want to buy R.M Williams boots as the company was owned by Forrest.
Joyce said he was at Beef Week in Rockhampton when he decided to boycott the company by wearing the alternative boots, but it was turning out to be bigger than he expected.
“I don’t mind him (Forrest) as a person but these wind farms are swindle factories… they’re just killing us in out in the country,” Joyce told Fordham.
In January this year Forrest’s Squadron Energy broke ground on Uungala Wind Farm in New South Wales, tipped to be the largest in the state when complete.
Joyce said the wind farms were “just future obsolete landfill”.
