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

One Nation supports this motion. One Nation and the Greens may well expect different outcomes from a royal commission, yet there can be only one set of facts and a royal commission will decide those facts. We expect a royal commission to find that the level of dishonest and illegal behaviour in the basin has allowed some people to make out like bandits while family farmers struggle. We expect a finding that the Murray-Darling Basin Plan works best for entities that have strong close links to the National Party in New South Wales. The plan will be seen to be destroying the productive capacity of one of the world's richest agricultural areas, destroying rural communities and transferring wealth from everyday Australians to large corporates. We expect that the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office will be found responsible for environmental damage across the basin and the Coorong. It's time to eliminate the bad actors from the plan so that hardworking Australian farmers can return to growing food and fibre for the world whilst protecting the natural environment.