Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Okay. As I said, when Senator Burston was the latest person to walk out the revolving door that is the One Nation Party, I noticed that Senator Hanson rounded on him straightaway and said that she felt incredibly let down. She talked about why is she always let down by these people around her? I think that's a very good question. Why is it that after 20 years, 21 out of 30 One Nation MPs or senators have walked out on Senator Hanson?

There's a very serious point here: for all that Senator Hanson complains about being let down by the people around her, the simple truth is that the people who are really being let down by Senator Hanson and One Nation are the very battlers that they say they care about. They say they care about battlers, yet they come down here and vote with Mr Turnbull, the Prime Minister, and his Liberals 100 per cent of the time.

As I've said already in this chamber this week, the debate that we're going to have about tax cuts is going to be the ultimate test of One Nation and where they stand. If they actually care about battlers, they will vote with Labor and the tax plan that we're putting forward, which would deliver a better tax cut for about 75 per cent of people in regional Queensland. If they don't care about battlers and if they yet again vote with the Liberal Party like they have every other time this year—100 per cent of the time this year—then we will know once and for all that Senator Hanson and One Nation are not about battlers; they are for billionaires.

It's about time they actually started following through on what they told battlers in regional Queensland and vote against this bill that is going to deliver massive tax cuts to high-income earners, especially in the Prime Minister's own electorate. Vote against that bill and vote with Labor to split the bill and to back the amendments that will back battlers.