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

Last weekend more than half a million Australians came together to protest antihuman and possibly criminal governments. The media were there, not to report on proceedings accurately and with integrity but to lie and cover-up for our medical dictatorships. What we all saw around Australia was not right-wing extremists. What One Nation saw was everyday Australians united in a desire to get government and health bureaucrats out of their lives, to be left alone to make the best decisions for their bodies and for the bodies of their children. It was no surprise that a common sign being held high was: 'my body, my choice'—on one occasion written on the back of a Greens' election poster. Apparently 'my body, my choice' is a value the Greens abandoned and their hypocrisy is now widely noticed.

The Liberal Party should be scared of the number of signs from small businesses that capricious, callous government mandates shut down. The closures destroyed lives and weakened local communities. The Labor Party should be concerned at the handwritten T-shirts on former unionists in health care, education, police and emergency services, and aged-care facilities, fired for the crime of respecting their bodies—Labor voters no more. Another sign simply read: 'pray, reflect, vote.' Religious leaders advocating action contrary to religious teachings are not going to come out of this unscathed.

The rallies were peaceful and the mood was positive and energised. Many Australians have realised that fear is the virus and the cure is to embrace family and community with love and inclusion. The only fear was from some small groups of spectators infected with the media mutation.

The weekend stands as a warning to all power-crazed health bureaucrats, state premiers and federal politicians. We have one flag. We are one community. We are one people. We are one nation. We will not be scared and bullied into surrendering our bodies and our freedoms.