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

Through the chair, I am just gobsmacked at Senator Hanson-Young attacking me over aged care. That is not the whole point. The whole thing is that people have to be responsible for their debt to the taxpayer. People are abusing the system, and it is quite apparent in the rising cost and the debt that we have in this country. If you are going to study for a degree and you actually have a degree in an area then you are actually going to be at $22,000. That is the amendment. New Zealand brings it in at $19,000. That is when you actually start paying back the taxpayer. If you want money for your environmental issues—which are a waste on the taxpayer as well—it has to come from somewhere, so start reining in. I would love to know where all this money is supposed to come from. We are in debt. We are paying $40 million a day in interest alone. So I would say, 'Wake up, the Greens,' because we cannot keep going. All I hear is that we are going to pay out more handouts and all the rest of it. Who is going to pay for it? Someone has to pay for it in the long run.

The CHAIR: The question is that amendments (1) on sheet 8029 and (1) and (2) on sheet 8004, as moved by Senator Hanson, be agreed to.