Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Clarity of purpose—and I refer to the words 'recognise, value, respect or promote'. In my experience, when I graduated from university I worked for three years as an underground coalface miner so that I could gain some valuable experience. I have worked through to executive levels in the mining industry, and I have also worked in voluntary organisations as a volunteer. It seems to me that whether paid or voluntary, volunteers receive their reward, like paid employees, from diligent and effective service. That is weakened, is it not, and diluted and in places sabotaged by intervention of a third and irrelevant party pushing its own agenda—separate, in this case, from the CFA and the communities. Doesn't this intervention of a third party with volunteers, controlling those volunteers, destroy the cohesion, breed dismay and dissolve or dilute a volunteer's purpose in work?