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

Minister, I want to know the safeguards built into this bill against your safeguard bill. Senator Canavan, last night, exposed the economic underbelly of this bill—an underbelly that is sagging and that will hurt families, workers and employees, who will be dragging their arses along economically because of severe impacts on the cost of living and because we will be exporting jobs to China as a result of this, because they don't have this bill. I want to dive beneath the economics into the morality and the fairness, to see about your awareness of those considerations and, also, the protections. What safeguards are there for the people?

Let's go to the basics—the origins of your safeguard mechanism. Let's have a look at its pedigree. The father of global warming claims was senior UN bureaucrat and oil billionaire Maurice Strong. He then morphed global warming—which was never proven and has been disproven—into unlimited climate change, climate apocalypse or, as the Greens like to say, climate breakdown. I will give you some examples of his corruption in the UN public domain and also of his private corruption. He was involved in the UN Oil for Food scandal—corruption. He formed the United Nations environmental program, which was responsible for banning DDT, against the science, and responsible for 40 million to 50 million needless deaths before DDT was brought back by the UN. He was wanted by the United States police authorities for corruption with regard to water dealings in the western United States. He later formed the UN's climate science body that is really a political body—the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It has never produced any empirical scientific data or logical scientific points to back up your claim that we need to cut our carbon dioxide.

I'd like you to listen to this, Minister: he was the director and one of the founders of the Chicago Climate Exchange, which aimed to make billions of dollars trading carbon dioxide credits globally. He was joined in that by his accomplice, Al Gore, who headed up 50 per cent of his company, Generation Investment Management, on the Chicago Climate Exchange. Al Gore is not only known for corrupting and misrepresenting the science in his glossy propaganda movie An Inconvenient Truth; he's also famous for coming out here, at Kevin Rudd's invitation, in April 2007 as part of the 2007 campaign, which saw Rudd elected based on climate fears. The whole thing is a scam designed to make billionaires richer, and it rewards other billionaires like Climate 200 carpetbagger Simon Holmes a Court, who is funding teals—including Senator David Pocock—who vote for policies making Holmes a Court richer. People know this yet remain silent on it. Crooks, like Maurice Strong, initiated the climate scam, the climate fraud. Crooks continue pushing lies that the climate is changing when it's simply varying naturally, as it has always done. These carbon dioxide credits are based on a scam, for which the people of Australia are paying through the nose. Why? To make crooks richer.

I draw your attention to a comment by Europol in around 2012, from memory. They indicated that 95 per cent of carbon dioxide trading in Europe is subject to corruption. To this needless complexity, you now add six pages of afterthoughts and corrections in the form of amendments. So many details are to be inserted by ministers and bureaucrats. Are you aware of these facts, Minister?