Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It doesn't seem to matter how many opinion polls the major parties read about their falling popularity. They just don't get the message. Australians don't trust the major parties. They say one thing in opposition and then another when they're in government, they're not transparent, and they put their political careers before the needs of Australians. You see them come in here with great intentions and have these great speeches they put on, and all of a sudden they're sucked up by the vacuum of the party. 'Just stay there and be silent; otherwise, you're never going to make it to the frontbench'—that's how it works in here.

The Labor Party announce 150 bucks off power—not means tested, by the way, because they're such fiscal people over this side!—and what do you know? The blue team supports them. You know what, there must be an election coming up. That's right: there's an election coming up. And the reason you in government have had, to give them that, is you've not fixed the energy problem, so don't start coming at me from that side.

Then the Labor Party announced their dirty salmon bill last week, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Reconsiderations) Bill 2025. It's a bill that lets salmon companies off the hook. Mining companies have to clean up after themselves, but apparently the salmon companies get let off the hook. Mining companies have to abide by the environmental laws. But, apparently, no, no, there's a free pass to the dirty stinking salmon over here because the Labor Party and Liberal Party think it will give them a better chance of winning those electoral seats in Braddon and Lyons.

How's that going for you? You let me know how that goes for Braddon and Lyons, because you obviously haven't got your boots on. You're not listening to them. They think your dirty stinking salmon sucks. It is filth, and it is going to cause harm to Brand Tasmania. But you don't care because you don't have your boots on. You get the big packets of pay in those brown paper bags, and you buy your states. Well, get your boots on, because we don't want that stinking salmon in that harbour.