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

Scrutiny or, rather, the avoidance of scrutiny is what drives the Greens and Labor coalition in the Senate. The Greens stated recently, just days ago, that they were strongly opposed to this bill, this 'nature repair' bill. What about the arrogance? The Greens now support it because Labor has agreed to allow the Greens to move amendments to the EPBC Act. The Greens will support Labor's disastrous Nature Repair Market Bill in return for Labor's support for the Greens' disastrous amendments to an existing law not before the Senate. This is preposterous. It's very dodgy. It's unheard of. And why? Because their arrogance says that the Labor-Greens-Teal coalition in the Senate can get away with it. They are saying to the people of Australia: 'To hell with you lot. We will give you the middle finger.' That's why they're doing it. They are hiding their political mates and bosses from scrutiny. They're not doing it properly.

Senator Hanson-Young talked about saving koala habitats. Their wind turbines and solar panels are killing koala habitats and they are actually talking about bludgeoning koalas. 'That's the way to do it,' they say. They want to avoid scrutiny and are killing the environment to save it!

Notice that they can't handle an argument. They start getting into invective. Speaking of scrutiny, last week's water amendment bill revealed under scrutiny, because it was allowed just briefly, 31 amendments from the government in the House of Representatives, plus 20 amendments in the Senate, on its own bill. That's 51 government amendments in total to its own bill. This is typical of what we have seen for 18 months. Then, if you add the amendments of the crossbenchers and the Liberals, you get 69 amendments to a water amendment bill. Consultation? Ha!

Then there was the identity verification scheme rushed in here. Again, they are hiding from scrutiny. That's the theme of the Labor government and its Green and Teal coalition partners—protecting themselves from scrutiny. The Greens used to be in favour of orders for the production of documents, but not anymore. They protect Labor quite often. Then we see Minister Burke protecting their mates from scrutiny and falsely creating the dishonest label 'closing loopholes' to hide the Hunter region Mining and Energy Union's complicity in aiding some labour hire firms in Australia's largest ever wage theft, worth billions of dollars. They're doing nothing about the fact that the Fair Work Commission protects blatant breaches of law in approving the Mining and Energy Union's enterprise agreements, enabling systemic wage theft, hiding their mates from scrutiny and protecting the Fair Work Ombudsman for using a fraudulent document that covers up the Mining and Energy Union's enterprise agreements, enabling systemic wage theft. They're hiding their mates and donors, their agenda and their coalition partners. One Nation will be opposing this.