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

As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I am astounded by the words of Labor's MPI which, at its core, is about cost of living. In November 2009, the then ALP Senator Mark Furner and I exchanged correspondence. He relied on written advice from Senator Wong. Her comments falsely blamed carbon dioxide from human activity for natural climate cycles and weather. On these Labor-Greens misrepresentations of climate are based Labor energy policy, killing jobs and raising cost of living.

Today the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Wong, a South Australian, continues to severely hurt Australia's strength as her party destroys fairness, kills job security and turbocharges energy price rises, closing factories and shutting mines and businesses. Instead, a stronger and fairer Australia will come from policies based objectively and honestly on hard, measured data—scientific data—physical observation and empirical evidence. This is all we ask for in economic policy. Such evidence, according to NASA satellites, shows that atmospheric temperatures have shown a flat trend for the last 22 years despite record amounts of carbon dioxide from human activity—no warming. The Global Historical Climatology Network's records show that the longest temperature trend of the last 120 years was 40 years of cooling, from the 1930s to 1976, when carbon dioxide from human activity increased dramatically during World War II and the postwar economic boom. Bureau of Meteorology data show that Australian temperatures in the 1880s and 1890s were warmer than today.

The way to a new vision for a stronger and fairer Australia, secure jobs, fairer wages and reducing energy prices is to eliminate the anti-science and destructive climate policies initiated by the then Leader of the Opposition, Kevin Rudd, in 2007 and meekly adopted and promoted by then Prime Minister, John Howard, fearfully trailing in the polls and media. The ALP-Greens climate fraud has much to answer for. And the antidote is easy: tell the truth and restore scientific integrity. Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party stands for fairness and integrity, a fair go for all Australians together. A vision for a stronger and fairer Australia with secure jobs and fairer wages must be based not on which way the wind blows but on solid facts, hard evidence.