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

Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy President. Your perceptiveness is admired and appreciated. You have it correct. President Trump said that he is:

… ending the theft of American prosperity, and rebuilding our beloved country.

We actually agree with the Labor Party that low- and middle-income Australians are continuing to lose out under the Turnbull government. The Turnbull government is pushing a 28 per cent renewable energy target, and that has helped destroy South Australia. The Labor Party is pushing a 50 per cent renewable energy target countrywide, and that will destroy Australia. But the Greens, the people who think that money comes out of the sky, want a 90 per cent renewable energy target, and that is going to cost every low- and middle-income earner amazing amounts of money. It will destroy this country and destroy jobs. What is more, energy prices are rising, and rising rapidly, and energy is now important in every family's life. Every family's cost of living is affected directly and indirectly as rising energy costs cascade through the economy. It is a highly regressive tax on low- and middle-income earners.

Labor actually wants to apply a carbon dioxide tax, an emissions trading scheme, which is yet another highly regressive impost on low- and middle-income earners. What is more, it is an open-ended, upward-ratcheting tax that is designed to give money to the United Nations. We have a double taxation agreement that was signed by the Liberal Party in 1953. I calculate that we have had—three, 13, six—22 years of Labor government since then, and not one of those Labor governments has even mentioned the double taxation agreement that is ripping off Australians. Only our party have done that, and we are making moves to end that double taxation— (Time expired)