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

It is amazing, isn't it, that the Greens want to call a vote of no confidence. We see the Labor Party adopting the Greens policies. We see the Liberal Party adopting the Greens policies. We see the current Prime Minister, in the previous election campaign, smashing the Labor Party because they were in favour of a 2050 net zero policy. Now it's part of Liberal-National policy. So it looks like the Greens have no confidence in a government that is adopting Greens policies.

The Greens support forcibly injecting people against their will. The Greens have no data with which to back their climate claims, which are now impoverishing people and threatening coalminers' jobs in the Hunter Valley and in Queensland—a major part of Queensland's economy. They will stump the whole economy if we follow the path the government is going down. The Greens lie. They say the temperatures are rising—the temperatures have been flat since 1995, once one compensates for El Nino and La Nina. They are impoverishing the poor and misleading the country. So I have very little confidence in the government but even less confidence in the Labor-Greens alternative.

The Prime Minister, leading the government, says that there are no vaccine mandates in this country. That is a lie. It's a dishonest government. Senator Birmingham, the Leader of the Government in the Senate, said that the government has presided over lower fatalities—another falsity. Taiwan has just skittled us in the way it protected its vulnerable people and those with COVID. It has a much lower fatality rate—ours is 4.5 times higher than Taiwan's—because it has a management plan for the virus. Senator Birmingham said, 'We have higher injection rates,' and he was proud of that, proud of coercing everyday Australians, forcing them to get an injection by denying their kids food.

I was at a protest last week in Brisbane. The protest leader went over to the police supervising us, and the police said, 'Keep going, we've got to get away from this control.' One of the policemen said he was injected. The protest leader, Dan McDonald—a wonderful emergency services worker—said, 'How do you feel?' I will always remember this: a grown man saying 'owned'. He feels owned. What a debilitating thing for any man or woman to say. Yet I can understand that. That's not his fault. He has to put food on the table for his kids. It's this government's fault, ably supported by Labor and the Greens.

There is no plan for managing COVID. It's been completely mismanaged. They've abandoned the vulnerable. They've abandoned the desperate. They've withdrawn Australian citizens' access to a proven treatment, ivermectin. This is the first time in our country's history when healthy people have been forcibly injected. It's the first time when healthy people have been injected with something that can kill them—and is killing them—and it's the first time a government has withdrawn a treatment that is proven to be safe, effective and affordable. This is a government in which I have very little faith, but it's a government that shines because it hasn't quite adopted the Greens policies.

I oppose Senator Waters's motion to suspend standing orders, because it will have no effect. It's a stunt. It gives her time to misrepresent reality, yet again, and Senator Hanson and I do not vote for stunts. We will be opposing this suspension of standing orders.