Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator Dodson, move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that it is Anti-Poverty Week from 13 to 19 October 2019, and 17 October 2019 is the United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty;

(b) recognises the dedication and enthusiasm of the Newstart Nannas who are in Canberra today asking federal politicians to immediately raise the rate of Newstart;

(c) notes that over a quarter of Newstart recipients are over the age of 55;

(d) acknowledges that many older women are increasingly facing financial insecurity, retiring into poverty and experiencing homelessness; and

(e) calls on the Federal Government to listen to the pleas of the Newstart Nannas for an immediate increase to Newstart and Youth Allowance.

Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Morrison government understands the importance of access to the essential services, including stable accommodation. That's why we provide states and territories with more than $1.5 billion a year through the National Housing and Homelessness Agreement to support their delivery of key services, as well as invest more than $200 million for emergency relief services and $73 million for financial counselling to support people who are doing it tough.

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

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

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

One Nation supports this motion. We note the Greens' duplicity, because Anti-Poverty Week comes from the corrupt and deceitful United Nations. Twenty-five years ago former Western Australian Liberal premier Richard Court detailed the UN's process of controlling our country. Two years later Senator Pauline Hanson joined him. Ten years ago I joined them. Two weeks ago the Prime Minister at last admitted that unaccountable international bureaucratic agencies push a globalist agenda. We now want his actions not just his talk. We do not need the United Nations to tell us about poverty in Australia. Our dairy farmers can tell us about poverty. Our struggling everyday Australians can tell us about poverty. It's poverty that came to us on the back of socialist United Nations policy. It's energy poverty due to expensive renewables. It's farm poverty and community poverty from stealing farmers' property rights and wasting water on pseudo-environmental flows instead of food. It's poverty from driving down wages through mass immigration. To end poverty, exit the socialist United Nations. Exit the UN.

Question agreed to.