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

As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I rise to support the Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Bill. Trust is extremely important. People want and need trust. That explains the rise again of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party. It's because people actually trust Pauline Hanson and those who work with her. Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party is all about trust and, for 20 years, Pauline Hanson—now Senator Hanson—has led by example and has built trust, and that is rewarding her party.

How can there be trust, though, when a major party is telling lies? In the last campaign, the 'Mediscare' campaign was deplorable. Not only did it spread lies but it also spread fear—it fomented fear. The architect of the 'Mediscare' campaign, so we're told by the media, was none other than, reportedly, the daughter of the former Treasurer—the member for Lilley, Mr Wayne Swan. That seems to go to the core of the Labor Party.

But it's not just the Labor Party that is misrepresenting events and trying to create havoc. We see that, instead of using data, the Greens, when they're fomenting their policies on climate and their claims on climate and misrepresenting climate, actually use photos of billowing steam as carbon dioxide, yet carbon dioxide is clear, odourless, colourless and tasteless. It's invisible. It's a trace gas, yet we see these pictures of billowing steam. We also see the Greens Party taking pictures of cute, cuddly and colourful animals—colourful fish from the Great Barrier Reef—to say that that's their evidence. There is no such evidence that humans, through our production of carbon dioxide and the use of hydrocarbon fuels, are affecting global climate—none whatsoever—yet the Greens have deceitfully started these smear campaigns about humanity and tarnished the reputation of our country and our Great Barrier Reef.

Then we have Senator Watt's vexatious complaints about Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in Queensland and the Prime Minister, in a speech last Wednesday, which I was appalled at when I listened to it, blaming the Labor Party for the energy crisis when, in fact, both major parties and the Greens are responsible for our current ongoing energy crisis. While people are not telling the truth and blaming others, we won't have the public understanding honestly what is happening and we won't have real policies being based on real evidence.

The Prime Minister's party, the Liberal Party, put in place the Renewable Energy Target under Prime Minister John Howard's government. The Prime Minister's party was the first to bring in, as policy, an emissions trading scheme. That led to the carbon tax, and it's now led to other similar policies and claims. The Prime Minister's party is the one that stole farmers' property rights to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. This is what's costing people in Queensland and right across our country enormously—stealing of property rights, raising of energy prices and unaffordability of energy prices. Now, in this country, with the best coal deposits in the world, we have people who have to make a choice between eating or using heat. That is deplorable. In this country, under this government and under this opposition when it was in government, we have the destruction of energy based upon a lie—one of the biggest lies ever told. While this is occurring, people are paying the price. Everyday Australians right across our country are paying the price, so we support this bill because we need to start bringing trust back into politics. Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party puts people before politics, and this bill is a start to putting the people before politics.