For the second successive week, everyday hard-working Australians have felt compelled to travel to Canberra to protest at what the Gillard Labor government is doing to their country.

Today the Nationals Senator for New South Wales John Williams and his coalition colleagues mingled with people from all walks of life out the front of Parliament House and was left in no doubt the anger runs deep.

Senator Williams said the Convoy of No Confidence was about many issues.

He said there were many from Queensland still irate at the government’s trigger-happy total ban of the live export trade and the fact that Labor is following the Greens agenda.

But the carbon tax has been the clincher for this display of outrage.

“In my address to the gathering I mentioned the 3.5 cents a litre diesel rebate this government has already taken off the transport industry, and the extra 6 cents a litre they will have to pay for their fuel when the carbon tax exemption ends in mid-2014.

The Australian Trucking Association believes the cost of the carbon tax to the heavy vehicle industry will be over $500 million.

Supporting the truckies of Australia were people in four wheel drives and mums and dads in campervans who just wanted their voices heard, and they were heard by the Coalition but not by any member of the government or their Greens allies. They were hiding as usual.

This wave of discontent is unprecedented and will continue as long as the Gillard government is directed by the Greens and propped up by the Independents”, Senator Williams said.