Look, I know milk comes from cows and eggs come from hens. I've even sung "Old McDonald had a farm" to my grandchildren, on loop. And yeah, yeah, money doesn't grow on trees.

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You may have read that two Nationals, Barnaby Joyce, representing the federal seat of New England; and Michael McCormack, representing the Riverina, want to abandon net zero.

It's kind of embarrassing because they are just copying Donald Trump (and we know how that worked out for Temu Trump, our pet name for Peter Dutton). This week, The New York Times reported: "The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan."

So catastrophic decision from the US and idiotic grandstanding from the Nationals (dear heaven, the two political parties in this country with the names which bear no semblance to reality - Liberal and National).

But this week's comment in response to the derangements of Joyce and McCormack by opposition energy spokesperson Dan Tehan totally perplexed me from an agricultural point of view. He described two former deputy prime ministers, now backbenchers, Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack, as "two steers in a paddock". I hastened to Google for agricultural assistance.

A steer, by the way, is a boycow* with his nuts knackered. According to at least one livestock expert I spoke to, it's normal for two steers to be in a paddock. Absolutely normal. What would they do to each other? Absolutely nothing. They have no balls. Wow. Similar.

John House, associate professor and unit head, livestock veterinary teaching and research unit at the University of Sydney confirms you can put a bunch of steers in a paddock, no problemo.

"They just get along, chew grass and chill," he says.

Don't think........

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