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

We cannot support this motion because One Nation bases its conclusions on empirical data within a logical structure that proves causation. Appeals to name do not trump facts. We note sadly a recent court finding that the devastating 2011 Brisbane floods were due to mismanagement of dams. If the Premier of the day, Anna Bligh, had acted on empirical data, rather than on the unfounded scares of so-called experts like mammalian palaeontologist Tim Flannery, who convinced the nation that droughts were the new norm due to human-caused climate change, rather than what they really are—natural cyclical events—this disaster would never have happened.

I note that it is 93 days since we challenged Senator Di Natale to provide his empirical evidence proving human cause and that he continues to refuse to do so. It is nine years and two months since I first challenged Senator Larissa Waters to provide the same, and she fails to do so.