PM Albanese and Climate Change minister Chris Bowen decide a visit to rural Australia is in order to get first hand knowledge about how the government will capitalise on animal methane emissions. There's got to be a tax for this, right?
After a tour by an obliging station owner PM Albanese says to the coughie, "I have been counting the sheep as we drove around your property. I tallied 10,201 sheep. Under our government's new methane tax system I calculate you have one sheep too many, so I will take this sheep back with me to Canberra to highlight to cabinet how farmers will try to fudge their stock numbers and so avoid paying their fair share tax"
The old coughie leans against his farm truck looks Albanese in the eye and says, "I have you know I keep very good records and I have 10,200 sheep, no more, no less. Now put down my bloody dog."