Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Half a million dollars—that's how much Gina Rinehart funnelled into the Liberal Party in a single year. Meanwhile, Labor's biggest donor is billionaire Anthony Pratt. Billionaires are buying political influence at the expense of our planet, our livelihoods and our communities, and we all know how it ends. At his inauguration, Trump lined up his billionaire mates and donors—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk—and, hours later, began winding back social and environmental protections, and attacking human rights, democracy and climate action. Back in Australia, billionaires are bankrolling the Liberals' campaign. We should be terrified about what that means for our future. Labor and the Liberals back an economic system that allows Gina Rinehart to bank $40 billion while more people than ever before live in tents and cars.

People deserve a government that will fight for them. You deserve a government that will put your needs above the needs of the one per cent and that fights for putting dental into Medicare, for you to see a GP for free, to wipe student debt, for cheaper groceries and for a cap and freeze on rent increases. That's what the Greens will put firmly on the table when there's a minority government. But nothing changes if nothing changes. A vote for the major parties is more of the same. This election, we can keep Dutton out and break up the two-party system—but if you want change you're going to have to vote for it.

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