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

As a servant to the many different people who make up our one Queensland community, polling has turned against the Voice because the Prime Minister has told a lie too far. Prime Minister Albanese said repeatedly that the Uluru statement fits on one A4 page and that he was committed to implementing the statement in full. The Uluru statement is 26 pages; the remaining pages have been released under freedom of information. These contain a clear path for the partition of Australia into two separate nations that closely resemble South Africa's apartheid regime. On committing to implementing the Uluru statement in full while lying about the contents of the statement, the Prime Minister has told a lie too far. As opposition leader—

Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Sorry, Senator Roberts, there is a point of order.

Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I ask Senator Roberts to withdraw those assertions about the Prime Minister.

The Acti Ng Deputy President:

There is a request from Senator Brown to withdraw. I must apologise; I was reading something and did not hear it. Senator Roberts, I don't know what you said but there is a request to withdraw, I take it, around lying.

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

The Prime Minister deliberately contradicted his own statements.

Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm going to seek guidance because I did not hear it. Thank you very much to the Clerk. I've been informed, Senator Roberts, that you did actually accuse the Prime Minister of lying. That is out of order, and I'm going to have to ask you, please, for the purposes of complying with the Senate's smooth running, to withdraw that statement.

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

I withdraw that statement and say he has told what seems to me to be a lie too far. As opposition leader, Prime Minister Albanese—

Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator Roberts, there is a point of order.

Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Again, I ask you to ask Senator Roberts to withdraw.

The Acti Ng Deputy President:

Senator Roberts, is there another choice of wording you may wish to use?

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

A mistruth too far. As opposition leader, Prime Minister Albanese said the Voice must be followed by a makarrata commission to inform a national treaty, yet he failed to tell Australians that without the Voice passing there is no national body of Australians with which to sign a treaty. The Prime Minister's decision to not admit that without a voice there can be no meaningful treaty is a mistruth too far. When asked on ABC radio if he will move on to treaty if the Voice is passed, the Prime Minister said no; his exact word was 'no'. Yet the Uluru statement includes a high-level treaty and the Prime Minister has called in parliament for a treaty. It's on record, and he has the T-shirt to prove it!

The Prime Minister's denial of his intention to proceed to treaty is a mistruth too far. The Uluru statement calls for reparations in the form of an annual cash payment calculated as a percentage of GDP. Even one per cent would be $20 billion a year in cash to 800,000 Aboriginals, or $100,000 for a family of four, which, as compensation, is tax free. The Prime Minister deliberately hid his true agenda. He's been found out and he's now lost any chance of a settlement with the real Aboriginal community that looks to a shared future of mutual respect and equality of opportunity. Loss of shared community is a heavy penalty for one man's mistruth too far. (Time expired)