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

We're approaching the time when we are going to vote on this legislation and on the amendments that the Greens have moved to the government's amendment. I have been saying in this place for a long time that we need to do something about the family law courts to address the needs and concerns of many Australians and their extended families. But it's about the children.

What I hope now is that, after this debate, the Greens and the Labor Party will see that we need to be unified in agreement to actually start working for the people of Australia. You have not shown me any reason why I should shift my vote from supporting the government on the merger of the two courts. The merger of the two courts has already started to happen, with the Lighthouse Project, where they're working together to improve access to the courts for families of Australia, to shorten the periods of time, to address their needs and concerns. This legislation can only improve it even further, and yet you are still so reluctant to admit that you have got it wrong. The whole debate is not about domestic violence. Senator Green tried to bring up that I've used domestic violence as a reason for supporting the merger of the two courts. I never once mentioned it on the floor of the parliament.