The Albanese government is deliberately opposing my motion to disclose the infrastructure review it’s using to justify slashing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of critical infrastructure projects around Australia. These projects include dams for towns and agriculture, transportation and visionary nation-building projects. These cuts will impact critical areas where investment is necessary, all while sending substantial funds to the United Nations and Tedros the Terrorist at the WHO.
Australia requires productive infrastructure to cultivate its competitive and productive edge, reducing its dependence on other nations that purchase our raw materials, like iron ore, for steel and other construction materials. Why should we export raw materials only to buy back finished goods instead of manufacturing the entire product domestically? Australia possesses all the necessary resources to achieve self-reliance, lacking only a government with common sense to facilitate it.
How many more instances must we uncover before this Labor government reveals the secrets it’s concealing from Australian taxpayers? Australians deserve the transparency and accountability they were promised, and the infrastructure that this country badly needs.
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The Albanese government is making secret cuts to infrastructure projects. Twice now the Senate has passed my motion, forcing the government to hand over the full infrastructure review that they used to justify cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in projects. Twice, the government has opposed transparency and accountability about its secret infrastructure cuts. How many more times will the Labor government keep secrets from Australian taxpayers?
This is the Labor review that concluded the Emu Swamp dam at Stanthorpe should be cancelled. Only three years ago, this southern Queensland town was in severe drought and ran dry. They had to cart in millions of litres of water by truck just to survive. Up to 50 trucks carted water hundreds of kilometres every day for 15 months. On what basis did the Labor government conclude Stanthorpe doesn’t deserve a dam? We might never know. The government has so far refused to hand over the review that justifies the decision. If Stanthorpe doesn’t have water, Stanthorpe will die. The Labor government needs to answer why they believe Stanthorpe should be left to die in the next drought. It has literally been hung out to dry. One Nation will keep fighting for those answers and we will fight for more dams across Queensland. What we need in Australia is productive infrastructure to build our competitive advantage—our productive competitiveness. We need dams that agriculture can use to boom. We need cheap power, from which the entire economy will benefit. We need functional roads that don’t have potholes big enough to destroy a car’s suspension.
Australia needs visionary, nation-building projects—infrastructure projects like the Iron Boomerang. Right now, every year, we send 900 million tonnes of iron ore and 360 million tonnes of coal overseas. We ship it overseas. Those are two essential ingredients to making steel, which we largely import. We put that dirt on a boat, places like China buy it, they turn it into steel, they make things like unproductive wind turbines out of the steel, they put them on a boat and they ship the wind turbines back to Australia in the form of steel, where our dopey government buys it off them.
We should let private enterprise build the Iron Boomerang track linking our iron ore and coalmines, so we can make the steel right here in this country. The government doesn’t even have to build Iron Boomerang. They just have to promise they won’t get in the way, and then private money will pay for it. That money is already knocking on the door. These are the kinds of nation-building infrastructure projects that would be on the horizon if One Nation had our way. We certainly wouldn’t be cutting productive infrastructure, like dams, in secret as the Labor government is doing. Before all of that we need accountable and transparent government. Labor continues to prove it will never be transparent. Their secret infrastructure cuts are just the latest example of a government that’s afraid of explaining itself to the voters.
Time to act now. Forcibly remove the gestapo belligerent government out of The Hill NOW.
I am so disillusioned and disgusted with this Government, who have thrown money around to “fix” problems that require other actions rather than cash. So we get deeper and deeper in debt as this fool rules Australia – or gives the impression he does.
I can remember when the voting actually took out Malcolm Fraser and was replaced by Bob Hawke and the vote against him had people worried as he was 10 million in debt. Now look at it, almost $1,200,000,000,000. As the old saying goes – “Having a champagne taste on a beer budget.”
And I am NOT impressed with someone running MY country who has not even been made a formal PM – he’s stated as informal.
As for our private enterprise, the Government saw them as a cash cow so they left and moved overseas. Now we have very little here. As for Ford and Holden Car makers, for example, the Government threw money at them to stay. What happened, they left! Our brilliant dumb dopey Government were too stupid to put in a clause to state by law – leave Australian shores and ALL money is to be refunded. Great financial idiots we have in Canberra and the succession of PM.s and Ministers seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel each time one jerk is elected.
Only comfort is that Labor are signing their own death warrant – only fools trusts them
One has to wonder, is Albuneasy trying to set up Australia as a communist state.
Whatever problem seems to come up, there goes Albuneasy throwing more Taxpayer money at it, without any idea how this money may alleviate the particular problem.
I do hope that fools will NOT reelect FOOLS again !
They make electricity horrendously expensive then offer back some taxpayer money to help citizens pay these mega bills.
Is this not the essence of stupidity. AND, the treasurer calls himself a treasurer.
Thank you, One Nation.
Bryan Mulholland.
Doctor, but obviously NOT Doctor of economics