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

As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I want to pass on what I've seen: from TI in the north to Tugun in the south, to Thargomindah in the west, from Cooktown to Coolangatta to Cunnamulla, shops are shutting, businesses are closing. Why is that important? Because rural industry is vital to our state, because there are more people living outside our capital city than inside. Yet Liberal-Labor policies are pursuing a process destroying Australia's productive capacity.

Here is a list of some of the actions from state and federal government. Energy currently has a renewable energy target of about 14 per cent. The Libs want to double it to 28 per cent, and Labor wants to quadruple it to 50 per cent. On climate, there's the same underlying policy, yet neither party has any empirical evidence proving human carbon dioxide is a cause of climate variability. Neither party will tax multinationals. As for economic mismanagement, both parties use budgets and elections to bribe and to mismanage the economy. Then there are the promises both parties have made to fix PFAS, yet they won't even listen to their own communities and they still deny compensation. On agriculture: Liberal-Labor policies have stolen property rights, taken water, raised water prices and raised energy prices, and now they're pushing the destruction of farmers' rights because of the Great Barrier Reef—all based on a lie.

There is a lack of a plan, plus a lack of understanding, a lack of listening and a lack of integrity. This is killing the productive capacity of our country. Queenslanders say that the MO of ScoMo is facade building, and that Labor is his ally. They exchange preferences, and we ask now: when will Labor and the Liberals merge? One Nation is the only alternative for the people.