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

I've served in this parliament over the terms of four prime ministers, and Prime Minister Albanese has easily been the worst of them. He promised he would lead a more accountable government in the wake of Scott Morrison's secret ministries. The Labor government's conduct in parliament has been exactly the opposite of this principle. They have shut down debate on critical legislation and rammed through disastrous bills with the enthusiastic support of the Greens and Senator David Pocock. Yesterday they refused to support Senator Nampijinpa Price's motion supporting a royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities, making the disgusting claim that it was playing politics. The hypocrisy and callousness of this statement is breathtaking. The motion wasn't playing politics, but voting it down was.

This is the Prime Minister who promised a $275 reduction in electricity bills, but they have gone up almost 50 per cent under his government. Despite strong public support for my measures, Labor has refused to look into the Aboriginal industry corruption, children being treated for gender dysphoria and Indigenous identity fraud. My approach to these issues has always been in the interests of the Australian people. I am disgusted at the seat warmers in this chamber who tell me privately that they agree with these initiatives and policies but refuse to support them in public.

Lastly, this Prime Minister should—but will most definitely not—fall on his sword for imposing a racially divisive referendum on the Australian people and blowing more than $400 million on a lost cause. The PM can hold a robodebt royal commission but not a royal commission into the sexual abuse of children? Australians are not fools. That was evident last weekend. They are fed up with the politics, the false promises and the blatant deceit this government shows towards them. Australians will have their say at the next election. Hopefully, this government will be gone—thrown out on its ear.