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 respond to Senator Gallagher's matter of public importance motion today. Senator Gallagher has raised a real concern for all Australians, yet she has not identified the real problem nor offered a real solution. If we are going to address these real problems for all Australians, then it is time we give up what created the current mess—the old ways of the Liberal-National and Labor, Greens parties. We need real change. Labor, Greens and the Liberal-National parties are letting Australians down, and we are all paying for the Lib-Lab duopoly's lack of vision. In this very chamber today, the Lib-Lab duopoly let multinational petroleum companies mine and export our gas resources without these mega-rich companies paying anything like their fair share of tax. The Liberal-Labor duopoly let multinationals, the world's biggest tax avoiders, off the hook again.

This decision by the Morrison government means that everyday Australians will have to make up for the lost revenues that the government and Labor have given away repeatedly in tax measures. Australians could now be paying less tax or receiving improved services if the Lib-Lab duopoly had ensured that multinational companies pay their fair share of tax. This Lib-Lab duopoly has contributed to Australians paying higher costs for essentials, like food, water, phone, internet, electricity, health care, aged care, transport and tolls, and much more. This government is hitting Australians where it hurts.

I do agree with Senator Gallagher that the Morrison government has no plan and no vision to help everyday Australians, and what we need is change. Years of economic mismanagement and of doing what the Prime Minister's unseen and unaccountable international bureaucracies want has harmed the economic fabric and stability of our great nation—that foreign bureaucracy that's ceded our sovereignty to them. No more building facades please. No more false talk. It is time for real plans and real reform. It's time for the Morrison government to stop trying to look good and instead do good. (Time expired)