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

Australia is going backwards. National productivity is down. GDP per capita is falling. Our standard of living is down. Real spending by Australian households is down nine per cent. We have Australian families and Australian children going hungry and homeless. We've been in a per capita recession for six quarters in a row. We've been told that it's the longest household recession in the past 50 years. It's no wonder the Treasurer has never had a real job in his entire life and neither has the Prime Minister. They've never had to run a business. Their solution to our recession has been to hide it by bringing in millions of migrants to paper over the cracks and boost GDP. That's right—they're forcing Australian families onto the streets to hide their economic incompetence.

Economists are telling us that this recession, this harmful economic downturn, could continue for years to come. Instead of helping our economy, Labor continues to sabotage it. They helped their union boss mates hold the construction industry hostage. They have made our energy some of the most expensive in the world with their stupid pursuit of renewables. They blow tens of billions on this while the rest of the world turns to cheaper, more reliable energy or goes nuclear. They blew almost half a billion dollars on the spectacular failure that was the referendum on the Voice. Australia has become an economic basket case and an international laughing-stock under Anthony Albanese, and it's the Australian people who are suffering from his incompetence and his stupidity and Labor's net zero empathy for the community they are supposed to serve. Australia's future is in the voters' hands. Let's kick this worthless mob to the kerb.