Asking the Government to please explain their insanity on energy prices

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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has been standing up for the Australian people and sensible, common sense, climate change policy by holding the government accountable in question time and demanding responsibility and proper scientific rigour.

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‘Science’ behind renewable energy completely backwards

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We need to get back to the basics on Climate energy.

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Indonesia ‘free trade’ agreement a stinker

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 I spoke about 3 “free trade” agreements that the Liberal, National and Labor party have voted together to approve.

Globalists united!

While there is some fantastic news for farmers, the Indonesian agreement is a stinker.

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My first comment, Mr President is to criticise this Government for bundling 3 free trade agreements into the one piece of legislation. It is no wonder that we are being forced to vote for or against these agreements as some bizarre “job lot”, because the Indonesia Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement is a stinker.

The dishonesty from this government extends beyond bundling the agreements. It extends to the lies this Government is telling about the agreements.

Let me talk about ISDS – Investor State Dispute Settlement provisions in all 3 of these agreements before us today.

These clauses allow private companies to sue the Australian Government if our actions cost them money.

Let me give you some examples.

When President Putin came to power he took on the corrupt Oligarchs that exploited the end of communism to steal everything worth stealing, and then pay no taxes on all this wealth. Putin cleaned up the oligarchs and many fled overseas. From there they used ISDS provisions to sue Putin for acting in Russia’s best interests, and for making them pay their fair share of tax. And they won Mr President.

Now I know why Prime Minister Morrison loves ISDS provisions so much. Large corporates paying their fair share of tax, Mr President, not on the Prime Minister’s watch!

Renco Group Inc., a company owned by one of the richest men in America, invested in a metal smelter Peru which is one of the 10 most polluted mining sites in the world. Peru took Renco to their local court to force Renco to install sulphur filters to make the air in neighbouring villages breathable.

A local Court found in the villagers favour, but then Renco moved the case to an ISDS panel and won.

This is One Nation’s objections to ISDS provisions. It takes justice away from everyday Australians and moves it into international Courts where even a small case costs in the tens of millions.

In these courts there is no national interest, there is no thoughts of common law protections of our inaliable human rights, no consideration of basic principles of justice.

National interest is subverted to corporate profits and to hell with the consequences for everyday citizens.

Could this heartless liberal nationals government be summed up any better than that.

Let me turn to labour market provisions. This agreement allows Indonesia to supply 4100 new temporary visa holders into the Australian market, rising to 5000 annually by 2024.

In addition, this agreement requires Australia to send trainers to Indonesia to skill their labour force up to Australian standards, so even more can come over.

We are not asking if they are going to take jobs from everyday Australians.
We are not asking what effect this will have on the lives, businesses and wages of tradies and construction workers in particular.

Mr President there are currently 1.4 million of these temporary work visa holders in Australia. Every new trade agreement brings more.

Co-incidentally there are also 1.4 million Australians who are unemployed or underemployed.

Yet all we hear from the Government, and oddly today, from the ALP, is that this immigration leads to more jobs.

If more of these workers leads to jobs growth Mr President when is that going to happen?

When are our 1.4 million unemployed and underemployed going to benefit from all these corporate trade agreements?

The answer Mr President is that it will not. These agreements exist to bring in large numbers of foreign workers, to drive down wages and maximise corporate profits.

Australian is used to that from the Liberal National Party.
My question, Mr President, is why is the Australian Labor Party voting for this stinker?

Aren’t you supposed to be the party of labour?

Aren’t you supposed to protect Australian workers?

Apparently not.

There is one aspect of these agreements that One Nation does support.
This is the expansion of Australia’s farm exports.

A half a million tonnes of grain to Indonesia along with a 1300% increase in cattle exports by 2050. Dairy gets another $6 million in exports. Carrot and potato tariffs are eliminated.

The Peru agreement will eliminate a 17 per cent tariff on beer, a 9 per cent tariff on wine and will allow market access for Australian sugar, dairy, beef, lamb, cereals and nuts.

In a time of drought these targets may be at best theoretical, but this drought will not last forever. It will rain again and when it does, these additional markets will be critical to getting our farmers back on their feet.
Our struggling manufacturing sector will benefit from another 250,000 tonnes of steel to Indonesia, and from market access to Peru for our pharmaceutical and minerals markets.

Ultimately, the absolute necessity of keeping our economy out of recession by developing these new markets has decided our vote on this matter.

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MEDIA RELEASE: Senator Roberts calls for PFAS Compensation now

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How many more investigations and committees is it going to take for property owners living in PFAS toxic contamination zones around Australia to be compensated so they can move on with their lives?

It has been years since the shocking disclosure to residents that PFAS contaminations had made their homes worthless and there was a real danger that it may cause serious illnesses like cancer.

“Families have lost their homes and in many cases their incomes, leaving people with no place to live and no income to survive. They have been forced out of their homes through no fault of their own”, stated Senator Roberts.

At today’s Senate Estimates Senator Roberts was clearly frustrated that all the focus from the Defence Department and the government was about remediation of sites, rather than compensation and buy-backs for the victims whose properties fall within the toxic “red” zones.

“While the investigation into how to remediate the hundreds of sites around Australia is vital, what is a matter of extreme urgency is giving families back their lives. No more delays”, the Senator added.

The second PFAS Senate report tabled in December 2018 included a recommendation for property buy-back.  This is just one of the nine recommendations the government are yet to respond to.

“One Nation calls on the government to provide immediate compensation for affected residents.”

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MEDIA RELEASE: Hunter Valley’s forgotten workers doing it tough

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One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts was recently made aware of the plight of the many labour hire mine workers in the Hunter Valley who have been left high and dry by their employer and the CFMMEU.

“We have all heard the stories about how well people can do in the mines but for these people today, this could not be further from the truth.”  Senator Roberts said.

“Every day Australians like Simon Turner and Brodie Gilks are people who have been working hard to put bread on the table for their families and then they were injured on the job.”

The labour hire employer and the CFMMEU have ignored calls for help from these workers.  There are many stories like this of labour hire employees being underpaid and over-worked, then being left broken and in despair.

“Imagine how hard it must be for Brodie not even being able to pick up and nurse her child due to workplace injuries for which she was never properly compensated,” Senator Roberts added.

Christmas 2019 will be a tough time for these workers, with no money to spend on gifts for the little ones, and wondering if they can make the next mortgage payment. 

This is life for these forgotten workers and they have the physical and the invisible scars to prove it.

The union and the employer have established an Enterprise Agreement that hoodwinked these workers; it offered poor job security and lacked the conditions that every day Australians have a right to expect from our industrial relations system.

The employer labour hire companies employ these everyday Australians as casuals when there is no such provision under the relevant Coal Award.  As casuals some slipped through the cracks in the insurance system and missed out on fair entitlements, and Fair Work Australia did not notice.

Senator Roberts added “When these workers complained, their complaints fell on deaf ears until our One Nation team listened and acted.”

“The real question is what is the Government going to do for these people, people like us?”

Senator Malcolm Roberts and the One Nation Team are listening to everyday Australians and they are helping real people with real problems.

Media inquiries for Senator Roberts contact Robyn Cross, M: 0428 483 098

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How the Greens implement the UN’s 2030 Agenda

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In response to a motion from Senator Hanson-Young, I outlined how the Greens keep changing their position until the UN’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable goals are reached.

The Greens in Tasmania led the war against the forestry industry for decades in the name of conservation. This war against the sustainable forestry industry has seen a decline in the industry, including jobs losses and communities struggling to survive.

In its place the Greens argued, would spring a new tourism boom that would enable Australians and international visitor a chance to visit the incredible natural Tasmanian wilderness.

So now that the free market is looking to invest in the Greens new tourism industry, what do they want to do? Change the rules. They want to change the rules because their intent was never to transition from forestry to tourism but to lock-up and lock-out everyone from enjoying nature.

So what do “high end resorts” bring? High end customers. Wealthy consumers who will help create jobs, create thriving communities with high-end local services and products. Not everyone likes a rugged camping holiday, or a rustic bungalow, some like to have some modern comforts and turning away these consumers is an idea that could only be dreamed up in the fairyland that the Greens exist in.

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Unelected international bureaucracies get free pass

I wanted to see how serious the government was to rein in ‘unelected international bureaucracies’ like the United Nations.

I asked the following questions of Senator Corman – no surprises. All talk and no action.

Question 1. On the 3rd October 2019, the Prime Minister during an address to the Lowy Institute highlighted that unelected international bureaucracies are pushing for a borderless global community that aims to damage Australia’s “livelihoods, our safety and our sovereignty.”

When can we expect the Australian government to remove ourselves from the following damaging treaties, protocols and declarations?

The UN’s 1975 Lima Declaration, the UN’s 1992 Rio declaration for 21st century global governance, the 1996 UN Kyoto agreement and now the destructive UN’s Paris Agreement?

Question 2. Twenty-five years ago, Liberal Premier Richard Court warned of the dangers of unelected bureaucracies in his book, Rebuilding the Federation. He said, ‘These international agreements are made primarily by people outside Australia. The terms and conditions are set by officials from other countries. While Australia takes part in the negotiations, it does not exercise a dominant influence. The foreign countries do.’ For the past 25 years, why have Liberal governments ignored this advice? It’s time to put Australia first.

Question 3. Although the Prime Minister didn’t quite have the courage to name the United Nations as the unelected international bureaucracy that he was condemning, when can we expect Australia to have the courage to exit the United Nations and allow Australians, through the ballot box, to determine Australia’s future, rather than unelected, unaccountable socialist bureaucrats?

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Farmers need water, not just handouts

It’s time the government invested in water projects that will ensure the future for Australian farmers and high quality, locally grown Australian produce on our supermarket shelves.

Without new water infrastructure and dams, farmers will be reliant on government handouts during every drought.

Stop promising dams and build them.

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Farmers: The best protectors of the environment

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Farmers have helped build this country but are now being hindered from farming the land by unnatural bureaucracy and unnatural levels of ignorance.

They are in the firing line from the United Nations for being one of the causes of “climate change” and by inner city greens from everything to fabricated animal cruelty claims and causing bushfires.

Our farms are being deprived of water by terrible government regulation.

What happens to a property in a drought once it is deprived of water? It turns into a wasteland with a corresponding loss of habitat for native Australian animals.

Farms are a part of the environment and not separate from it. The Murray Darling Basin plan is devastating the environment by depriving water to farms.

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Dan McDonald appeals Conviction

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Queensland Farmer Dan McDonald took his fight against the stealing of his property rights to the Supreme Court.

Dan was prosecuted and fined for feeding his own cattle his own Mulga trees on his own land during a drought.

“To add insult to injury, in this case, I have been convicted as a criminal, for essentially just using my own property.”

Dan’s story

Farmers charged as criminals for feeding stock

What is Mulga?

How Mulga clearing benefits the environment
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