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

The bipartisan Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation has an admirable track record of defending the Senate's duty as the house of review. The Australian people deserve nothing less. This motion results from subsection 476(2) of the Biosecurity Act 2015, which allows the minister to make the declaration of a pandemic without needing parliamentary approval. The minister may need to issue a pandemic declaration quickly, yet the parliament should come along afterwards and decide if that declaration was appropriate or not. The report that this motion is trying to shake loose is the government's response to the committee's recommendation that this regulation be made disallowable so that the parliament can do its job.

Yesterday I presented to the Prime Minister, and published on my website, 70 pages of data, facts and questions which prove beyond a doubt that the Morrison-Joyce-Hunt COVID measures are deeply flawed—which is what happens in the absence of parliamentary scrutiny. One Nation support the committee's recommendation, and we thank them for their work.

Question agreed to.