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

As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, my question is to the Minister for Agriculture through his representative in the Senate, Senator McKenzie. In 1996, the Liberal Party under John Howard decided to destroy farmers' property rights. It did so with the National Party's support. The two parties introduced draconian tree-clearing laws aimed to get Australia's compliance with the UN's Kyoto protocol. The UN's Kyoto protocol was an earlier version of the UN's Paris agreement, designed to reduce the output of harmless carbon dioxide. The human Liberal-National government was unwilling to artificially increase the price of energy to cut industrial CO2 output through climate regulations, so instead decided to remove the rights of farmers to manage their own land. Does the National Party still support the Howard Liberal-Nationals' decision to remove farmers' property rights?