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

That's why I started on the concept of integrity because that is what goes to the heart of this bill: integrity of our payments, to protect taxpayers who are on the hook for everything the government spends now and in the future. We want to cut down the rorting of welfare. We've had Senator Brown talk about if, indeed, fraud is occurring. Hello! Go and talk to the people in the street. They will tell you fraud is occurring. They will give you examples of fraud occurring.

Coming back to energy: what we're seeing there is that the fraud and the lack of integrity is due to government policies under both Liberal and Labor Party governments over the last 30 to 40 years. I can give you specific examples, but, at the risk of upsetting the senators, I won't go into that any further.

Let's have a look at PFAS, which is hurting the people in Oakey, the people at Richmond, the people at Williamstown and the people of many defence installations and other airports around the country. We are supposed to be protecting our citizens with defence installations. Yet we find the defence installations, through the use and abuse of PFAS, are now hurting not only the lives but the livelihood of citizens, everyday Australians around this country. I've been listening to the residents of Oakey and how they're so upset, how they've been affected and how their health is suffering. They've been told not to eat produce grown in their own backyards in a western Queensland town, the rural town of Oakey—grown in a rich soil, but they've been told not to eat it. That affects the health of these people. The Defence department has been given recommendations from a joint committee that looked into this twice and they're ignoring those recommendations, fundamental recommendations about health.