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

Minister, constituents lack confidence in Labor when it comes to security, especially after the last few weeks. So I'm wondering whether or not you will be supporting my amendment to do a simple review of the legislation, especially the amendments. If not, what is the problem?

I remind the Senate that last week's highly significant Water Amendment (Restoring Our Rivers) Bill 2023 saw 31 amendments from the government to its own legislation in the House of Reps plus 20 amendments in the Senate. There was a total of 51 government amendments to its own bill, and those from the crossbenches and the Liberals brought them to 69. Minister Burke has been falsely creating the dishonest label 'closing loopholes' to hide the Hunter mining and energy union's complicity in aiding some labour hire firms in Australia's largest-ever wage theft worth billions of dollars. We're told that the Greens oppose the Nature Repair Market Bill 2023. They said so themselves just last week. Yet the Greens now support it because Labor has apparently agreed to allow the Greens to move amendments to the EPBC Act. The Greens support Labor's disastrous Nature Repair Bill apparently in return for Labor's support for disastrous Greens amendments to an existing law not before the Senate.