Respect and Senator Thorpe

This week on Marcus Paul I talked about the revelations in Parliament this week and politicians failing to lead by example.

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Malcolm Roberts, good morning.

Good morning, Marcus. How are you?

Well, thank you, mate. Did you hear that?

I did. It’s disgusting, isn’t it? But you know what it shows, Marcus? It shows complete disrespect for the people of Australia. The people in that parliament house are supposed to be representing the people of Australia and they’re supposed to listen to the people and then serve the people. And what we have is a complete disregard for the people and the people’s assembly house. And what it shows is that voters have lost control of this country. This is supposed to be a democracy in which the citizens are served by the parliament and by the parliamentarians. We now have voters in this country, citizens in this country working for the parliament. The parliaments today, state and federal level, both are serving the parties, the the tired old parties and their donors, that’s it. And so what you have is this nonsense going on in the parliament. I have never yelled out and I never will. Pauline has only yelled out about twice because she just couldn’t contain herself. But she’s never yelled out anything vile or anything crazy. It’s just a matter of, you know, respect for each other. And even if you don’t like someone’s view, they are there to supposedly serve the people of Australia. You have to respect it then listen to them and then beat their argument with data and facts not with slurs and lies.

Yeah, just on one issue that we’re asking our listeners this morning and it’s made news as well. Alcohol should not be tolerated in parliament houses. The senior coalition minister backing a booze ban in the wake of a damning Report on the rates of bullying and harassment in Canberra. We know that Home Affairs minister, Karen Andrews has thrown her support behind an alcohol ban in federal parliament, saying she would be quote very comfortable if it was no longer allowed. This is a workplace. Alcohol should not be tolerated. Well, she’s right. It’s not tolerated here at the radio station. I’m sure it’s not tolerated in any other workplaces where there’s business to be conducted, Malcolm.

Yes, that’s a very good point. I drink very little. The strongest thing I have is a light beer, probably a one or two a week and that’s it. So if they banned alcohol in parliament house, I’ve got no problem with that whatsoever. It is important though, to recognise that it is a workplace and so it is important to recognise that and I agree with you. At the same time, there are so many hours that we spend in parliament house, that it is important to recognise it’s also a social place. And so, it’s not a simple cut and dried issue.

Oh, I understand, yes.

And you know, there are quite often some things, people relax, I relax just depending on the company. So I don’t need booze to make me relax. But some people do. And so there can be some things happening over drinks that will really facilitate politics. And I don’t mean getting drunk. I mean, just, you know, some people relaxing.

Well, a glass of wine over lunch is fine but you know, without going to excess, particularly if you’re expected in the chamber a little later to vote.

Exactly. And see, I wouldn’t drink at all during the day and I never do because even the light beer can affect me slightly. It doesn’t affect my thinking.

You’re lightweight like me, Malcolm. I am a lightweight.

Exactly. Yeah.

Absolute lightweight.

Well, we prefer to call ourselves heavyweights and that we focus on the work rather than the alcohol. But I think, you know, it’s like everything in moderation. The key issue in parliament is that it’s a place where data and facts are no longer used to drive policies and decisions markets and what happens then is that people resort to the other things which has power over others. And we can see that in the rape allegations and in the violent behaviour and the intimidation and the bullying, that starts at the top, you know. And, so it’s up to the prime minister and it’s up to the leader of the opposition to behave properly, respectfully and above all, honestly.

Yeah. I mean, look there was an incident with Anthony Albanese earlier this week that was much publicised. I don’t mind a little bit of banter across the chamber. I mean, I don’t want it to be stayed and you know, where people can’t be emotional if you like. And I understand that there will be interjections, there will be sighs, there will be groans. There will be all this sort of stuff. But I mean, the comments that were made, obviously that’s been reported and you say you heard it in the Senate. I mean, that’s where it goes way too far.

Yeah. I didn’t hear them in the Senate. I just heard what you said.

Oh, okay.

I wasn’t in Senate. We’ve been doing Senate remotely because Palaszczuk up here has got us in quarantine if we come back from Canberra for two weeks and you just can’t be out of the constituents for two weeks. But you know, those comments by Lidia Thorpe were just disgusting and there’s just no room for that at all. And, she does that quite a bit. She has called various people, old men, old grey head men, just slurs and you know, just denigrating people. And that shows that she, shows something about her past but it also shows that she hasn’t got an argument and she’s looking for attention. And I’m guessing that poor old senator Thorpe has not had a good time because she doesn’t feel like people are listening to her or paying any attention. You don’t get attention and respect by behaving in the way she does and she has yet to work that out.

Yep. All right, Malcolm. Just a short old chat this morning, just on what’s been transpiring in parliament this week. You and I will talk again next week. Thank you very much.

All right, mate.

One Nation’s, Malcolm Roberts on the programme.

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“1984: the Bill” – The Trusted Digital Identity

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As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, tonight I draw attention to a new government bill, the Trusted Digital Identity Bill 2021. This is no time for subtlety. The Trusted Digital Identity Bill represents a watershed moment in Australian history. We stand at the divide between a free, personal-enterprise future and a digital surveillance age in which the government sits in the middle of every interaction Australians have with each other and with the world. It achieves this in the same way China does, creating a digital identity that forms a central part of a person’s life. Call it a licence to live.

This bill removes the privacy protection currently preventing this exploitation and allows the government to keep one massive data file with everything the government knows about you and to sell that file to private companies overseas. Those companies can add your private sector data to build up a complete digital record of every Australian—everything: medical, shopping, whom we associate with, social security, veterans services, travel, web viewing, employment, our social media comments. Everything will go on the record and be available to any large corporation that can pay for access. We will each have to pay to access our medical records from that corporation. In Morrison-Joyce news speak, it’s a ‘human-centric digital identity’—sounds great, doesn’t it!

This has frightening ramifications for government and corporate control of everyday Australians. Policy documents attached to this bill promote digital identity as a benign housekeeping bill to fix antiquated and incomplete government databases ‘to save a few minutes filling out that government form’, they say. ‘This will reinvigorate the economy after COVID,’ they say. What the economy really needs is for the government to get the hell out of the way and let Australians lift ourselves up through our own hard work and enterprise—remove vaccine passports or, as I call them, digital prisons; ditch QR codes; stop spreading fear; and let the Australian spirit do the rest.

One Nation believes in technological advancements and in streamlining services. We would love to see a bill come forward to clean up the government’s databases and improve the online experience of Australians trying to access our own data. This is not what the digital identity bill does. Digital identity will do nothing to fix the government’s IT, yet it creates a crown-jewel scenario for hackers to steal not just one set of government data but, rather, personalised treasure troves. Far from safe, the Australian government’s is one of the most hacked databases in the world. This year, medical records became a highly sought after target. If you want to know the direction in which global policy is headed, watch what the hackers are trying to steal.

Another concern is vaccination. Digital identity links medical history with consumer purchases. What’s to stop a government locking out an uninjected person from the economy, as more than one state premier already threatens? It is a social credit system. We should not have to ask these questions, because the power should not exist. Digital identity represents the cornerstone in a larger World Economic Forum and United Nations campaign to implement a global digital identity system.

Why is the Morrison-Joyce government allowing the World Economic Forum to write Australian legislation? This bill is a copy-and-paste from the World Economic Forum’s Global Digital Identity Project—part of the digital transformation initiative. The Morrison-Joyce government brought this package to Australia, and this bill will start the World Economic Forum package’s implementation. It’s designed to shift the global economy away from private ownership and into what the World Economic Forum calls an ‘access model’—in other words, control. Australians have heard the slogan of the globalist Build Back Better campaign. You will own nothing and you will be happy. The goal of digital identity is life via subscription. Put simply, everyday Australians will not own assets like a house, car or furniture. Instead, they will rent these from corporations—corporations that the cabal owns—or, as the UN calls them, ‘corporate partners’.

When they talk about us having less, or living sustainably, or living in a closed-loop economy, what they mean is: we will have less—a lot less—so that billionaires can have more. It’s this principle that informed the Liberal Party’s billion-dollar Digital Economy Strategy 2030 which is reliant on the Trusted Digital Identity Bill. Indeed, the bulk of the supporting commentary around digital identity and the Digital Economy Strategy 2030 obsesses about how the government will be able to manage Australia’s economy onto a so-called sustainable path—a UN path.

For a glimpse into this future, we need only look at the food menus on display at the UN climate summit that the Prime Minister attended earlier this month. Each dish listed its carbon footprint, with a United Nations pledge to reduce the carbon footprint of every meal consumed across the world, including ours, every day. What happens when a government, obsessed with pursuing digital net-zero policies, decides to encourage people to reduce the carbon footprint of our food choices? We already know the UN is pushing vegetarianism and limiting red meat consumption to one mouthful per person per day.

The level of control this legislation provides to the UN is frightening. Instead of allowing businesses to seek out and explore natural market forces and people’s needs, digital identity is a tool to introduce a controlled economy under international direction, where implementing something like net zero can be mandated individually.

One Nation rejects providing more power to unelected, unrepresentative, unaccountable UN bureaucrats to control everyday Australians in what we can eat, where we can travel, how much water and power we can use, under the threat of being shut off from the ability to feed, clothe and house ourselves.

It’s evident that this policy robs businesses of control over their own future. The government will dictate each and every business’s future interactions with customers and suppliers. Small and medium businesses will have to contend with a massive technology overhead and be forced into an unfair David-versus-Goliath fight against large, incredibly well-informed businesses that are in the globalist information-sharing club. More Australian businesses will fall to foreign multinationals.

Digital identity is the end of personal privacy, anonymity, confidentiality, sovereignty and choice. Despite the bill repeatedly insisting that it offers a voluntary service to make life easier, it’s clear from the full documentation that digital identity will be made compulsory in the same way that vaccine mandates are now.

With this bill, once again, Prime Minister Morrison is trying to ban cash. One Nation was successful in striking the government’s cash-ban bill from the Senate Notice Paper last year, after public outrage. Cashless payments are popular, but the complete loss of cash opens up an entirely different conversation. Cash is a safeguard. When we have cash, we have purchasing power. A digital identity, though, could easily limit our individual purchases based on government or corporate policy. So, under this bill, cash has to go and, under this legislation, cash will go.

Australian banks have already voiced their interest in the Trusted Digital Identity Framework, saying it will allow them to create a rich view of their customers. Most people do not want banking institutions creating rich data maps of their personal and private information. This bill will allow banks to micromanage our spending in the name of whatever social justice cause banks are promoting. The design of the new payment platform that the Reserve Bank of Australia introduced in 2018 and forced on all Australian banks, allows for the addition of a digital identity. In fact, the basic architecture of the new payment platform was designed for a digital identity. Under the new payment platform, every transaction, every retail sale, interbank transfer, pay, online sale, all come through one central server. This allows the digital identity of each party to be checked and approved before the payment is finalised. Just how long have the World Economic Forum and the UN been planning this? For decades.

In China, a person’s phone controls their lives. The same thing has happened in Australia during COVID. Without a phone to prove our identity and to cough up medical data, citizens are excluded from society. The need to carry a phone at all times—charged and ready to offer their digital identity to buy something as simple as a cup of coffee—can be replaced with a wearable or an implantable chip. I can’t wait to see how they sell that! All forced at the start of a social credit system.

The Trusted Digital Identity Bill makes a wild claim that it will solve online fraud and protect businesses and customers. The government even put ‘trusted’ in the title, so it must be true! Anyone with any experience in online fraud knows this system will not solve fraud; it will likely make it worse.

The reason we have a Constitution is to enforce absolute boundaries to stop politicians taking liberties with our liberties. The behaviour of politicians during COVID has shown everyone how quick many politicians and bureaucrats were to abuse rights and to punish and coerce citizens into undergoing untested and unproven medical procedures. This bill will give premiers and the Prime Minister the power to take such action at any time. What a terrifying prospect! For this government, once the public understand how much we’re going to lose under the global reset, oppression becomes essential. This bill becomes the framework for that oppression. The Trusted Digital Identity Bill is a global surveillance and control mechanism that profit-hungry corporations and power-mad politicians drafted and crafted. It aims to introduce the total-control economy where citizens own nothing and have no freedom and no choices.

One Nation opposes this inhuman dystopian future that the United Nations promotes as the great reset, and we condemn this parliament for signing on to it. The only way to stop this monstrous plan is, at the next election, to throw out the globalist cheer squad—Liberal, Labor, Nationals and Greens parties—and develop a potent One Nation representation to hold government accountable and return parliament to serving the people of Australia.

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200,000 signature petition against mandatory vaccines tabled

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Despite only being open for 22 days, One Nation’s petition against discrimination on the basis of vaccination status has amassed over 200,000 signatures.

The petition reads:

To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled. The petition of the undersigned shows:

On the 21st of October 2021, One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson introduced her COVID-19 Vaccination Status (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill 2021 into the Senate. If supported this legislation would end the discrimination based on individuals’ COVID-19 vaccination status we see being inflicted on innocent Australians by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments, statutory authorities, local government and businesses.

This legislation must be passed with urgency in order to protect the rights and livelihoods of Australians who exercise their right to choose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19. In the words of Senator Hanson:

Australians who stand for their right to choose vaccination are just like any other Australians. They are doctors, nurses and paramedics caring for our health. They are police officers enforcing law and keeping us safe. They are soldiers, sailors and aviators defending our sovereignty. They are people who work alongside us in an office, in a factory, at a mine, on a farm or in a shop. They are volunteers helping their communities. They are people in line with us at Centrelink, and they are people sitting next to us in corporate boardrooms. They are people who live next door, down the street, across town and interstate. They are people born here and overseas, indigenous and non-indigenous, men and women, adults and children. They are our people. They are our fellow citizens. They are Australians just like you and me, with families and mortgages and worries and hopes and dreams.

https://www.onenation.org.au/vaccine-mandates

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Today I table a petition calling on this Parliament to pass our One Nation legislation stopping COVID-19 injection discrimination.

This petition was launched only 22 days ago.

In that short time, more than 200,000 Australians have put their name to it.

The people’s strong opposition to injection coercion and discrimination continues to grow.

Last weekend many thousands of Australians exercised what little freedom remains to them to protest injection mandates.

Australians have spoken loudly & emphatically, and senators will ignore this growing voice at their grave peril.

The collusion last week to block this legislation from being referred to a parliamentary inquiry sends a clear message from parliament to the Australian people: “the people must be silenced”.

Parliament’s clear message is that we, the people, must not be given the opportunity to say that we oppose injection coercion and discrimination.

The message is that senators here are very frightened at what we all might say in an inquiry.

Senators are afraid that when we speak, we will expose their false narrative that everyone opposed to injection coercion and discrimination is an extremist anti-vax conspiracist.

Many people who have signed this petition are fully injected against COVID-19.

We, the people, are not against injections; we’re against government coercion and government-approved discrimination.

We, the people understand this issue is much greater than COVID-19 injections and pandemic restrictions.

We, the people understand this is about some of the fundamental principles of Australian democracy: freedom of speech, individual autonomy and the right to choose our own fate.

Senators, our job is not to silence the Australian people.

Our job is to listen to the Australian people and do what the people tell us.

As senators, we’re not dictators. We’re servants. Senators, the people are telling you to pass our legislation and end this pandemic of discrimination.

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COVID: Governments busy point scoring

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The Morrison-Joyce government and state premiers have been busy on the political point-scoring, not the doing. Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk is far more concerned about looking good and sounding good than doing good. It’s time to stop sacking workers and instead focus on jobs and the economy and on people’s health and safety. Instead of looking good, let’s have the people safe and healthy.

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As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I agree that the Morrison government did too little, too late; yet I find it damned hard to agree with Labor, whose premiers have damaged our economy and our jobs. The Morrison-Joyce government has had no plan, was slow to respond and was slow at every point on the critical path. The government failed to learn lessons from other nations that were ahead of them—well ahead of them—such as Taiwan, where they protect the sick, the aged and the vulnerable, while keeping their economy and people’s businesses and jobs going. The Morrison-Joyce government and state premiers have been busy on the political point-scoring, not the doing.

Queensland’s Annastacia Palaszczuk is far more concerned about looking good and sounding good than doing good. Her border lockdowns and sacking of health workers have damaged families, businesses and jobs in the regions. Under Labor, Queensland’s economic future is now jeopardised.

Had the Morrison-Joyce government allowed equal priority to other treatments, such as antivirals, many more Australians would have been treated and safe and the virus would be finished, as it is in other countries that are using the antivirals. Instead, the Morrison-Joyce government’s reliance on only one treatment is a major risk—a provisional COVID injection that the TGA did not test and could not and will not guarantee as safe, and that concerns a hell of a lot of Australians. Yet the Morrison-Joyce government and the states have chosen to punish nearly two in every 10 Australians for not taking this unacceptable injection and the risk associated with it.

Understand us, Prime Minister: the Liberal-Nationals and the Labor-Greens are forcing a huge segment of the public into voting against you. Calling honest everyday Australians ‘antivax extremists’ has never been the answer—unless you and Labor believe that punishing and threatening workers with the sack is the right way. I don’t. The name ‘national cabinet’ sounds grand yet is nothing more than a meeting of the Prime Minister, state premiers and territory chief ministers, trying to hide behind collective decision-making instead of standing up and being accountable for decisions. National cabinet is a pretend concept to protect politicians from what they are not doing and to hide their mistakes.

It’s time to stop sacking workers and instead focus on jobs and the economy and on people’s health and safety. Instead of looking good, let’s have the people safe and healthy. One Nation will continue to stand up for all Australians, injected or not injected, for our jobs, our rights and our freedoms, and to keep Australians safe.

I want to remind senators of what the people are saying. On Friday night I attended a lively meeting in Redlands, a suburb in the south-east of Brisbane. I also attended a meeting on the Gold Coast on Saturday and a meeting in Moreton on Sunday night. I heard about the bankruptcies. I heard about a person who has built a business up and has had to sell his house to pay off the assets in the business, and his wife and daughter will now not be able to work after the 17th—because of Annastacia Palaszczuk’s edict and medical apartheid. So what the hell does he do? He’s one of many, many people who are very angry, and rightly so. What about the veteran up at Moreton who has physical injuries and cannot get physio anymore? She’s a veteran and served the country—and now she’s worried she will slide backwards physically and mentally. What about all the other veterans in the same position? This is what Scott Morrison and Annastacia Palaszczuk are doing to this country.

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