Senate debates

Tuesday, 23 November 2021

Statements

Roberts, Senator Malcolm

2:06 pm

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

Yesterday Senator Lambie said, 'People make decisions and there are consequences for those decisions.' We don't condone publishing phone numbers that are private. Steve Mav, our Senate candidate, posted Senator Lambie's telephone number and a text message. So I need to correct the record and state that Steve Mav was sent the phone number by a Tasmanian voter who got it from Senator Lambie's Facebook post, with an invitation to contact her. A journalist has today confirmed that with Steve Mav, our candidate in Tasmania.

At the last election, Senator Lambie posted her bank account details on Facebook, with an invitation to send money. Steve has removed the phone number from his post. The text message stating that Senator Lambie opposes vaccine mandates remains. I will read it. Senator Lambie said to the Tasmanian voters, 'I don't support the mandate. It should be left for people to decide if they want the jab. Dictating to people is not the answer.' That has been left on Steve Mav's Facebook page. Our candidate called on her to recant her comments and to challenge her to a debate. One Nation is making inroads in Tasmania, and Senator Lambie is running scared, playing victim and misrepresenting the circumstances. This phone number, this bank account, were issued by Senator Lambie publicly, and a journalist has confirmed that today, so that is the record cleared.

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