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

No, Minister, you haven't answered my question. If you are going to penalise these companies from trying to actually—industries and manufacturing, and you have just passed a bill to get industries and manufacturing going in Australia, and that is what you purport. But under this bill you are basically going to penalise them. What I'm saying here is that you are increasing your immigration by nearly two million people into Australia. Forget about the impact that is going to have on housing, hospitals, infrastructure, water and everything else. We are talking about CO2, which this whole bill is purely about. I will tell you something that you don't know. By the immigrants coming into nearly two million people in the country by 2030, you're going to have 45½ million tonnes of CO2 extra into it. Tell me, Minister: is the government going to buy carbon credits for their emissions?