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The Queensland government is proposing a highway through pristine wetlands that could make flooding on the Logan River even worse.

As the residents of Eagleby showed me on Tuesday19 September 2023, an alternative route is available just a few kilometres up the road. That option wouldn’t require filling up the Eagleby Wetlands, host to migrating birds and the rare Latham Snipe, with soil.

Government likes to pretend they care about the environment, yet they’ll completely ignore it if it means a flashy press release.

Questions have to be asked whether Transurban has influenced the route and connection point to maximise customers to their toll road.

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The government is compulsorily resuming land and literally filling in wetlands for the Coomera connector when an alternative is available just up the road.

At huge expense to the taxpayer, this plan needs attention and questions asked.

Courier Mail Article: read here at https://tinyurl.com/mszmkb3d

Senate Estimates | 12 February 2024

Infrastructure Australia

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Senator ROBERTS: And if the first answer is positive then it will be even quicker! Thank you for being here so late as well. Are you familiar with the Coomera Connector stage 2 in Brisbane? 

Mr Copp: Yes. 

Senator ROBERTS: You are—thank you. Are you in possession of the business case for the Coomera Connector stage 2? 

Mr Tucker: We assessed the business case for stage 1 of the Coomera Connector but we haven’t received a business case for stage 2. 

Senator ROBERTS: Why hasn’t the stage 2 business case been published? 

Mr Tucker: That would be a matter for the Queensland government. 

Senator ROBERTS: Have they discussed it with you at all? 

Mr Tucker: I would have to take that on notice. We have regular engagement with Queensland, but I don’t recall a recent conversation on that particular project. 

Senator ROBERTS: Could you do that, please? My understanding is that the Commonwealth government may be tipping hundreds of millions of dollars into this project, so I’m wondering why the public can’t see the business case. 

Mr Tucker: I’m not aware if a business case has yet been finalised. We will assess it once it’s submitted to us. 

Senator ROBERTS: So you haven’t received it at all? 

Mr Tucker: No. 

Senator ROBERTS: No requests for funding? 

Mr Tucker: No. 

Senator ROBERTS: Okay. We’re very concerned about flooding of human habitat, and flooding and destruction of wetlands—triggers to the EPBC Act, and for migratory birds in particular. That’s all I have, thank you, Chair. 

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

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Senator ROBERTS: Thank you for being here tonight. My questions are to do with the Coomera connector stage 2 freeway project in Brisbane. What is the status of the Coomera connector stage 2 with the department under the EPBC Act? 

Mr Edwards: At this stage, that project hasn’t been referred to us for assessment under the EPBC Act. 

Senator ROBERTS: Where is the public environment report for Coomera stage 2? 

Mr Edwards: Again, I’m not able to comment. I don’t have the project referred to me for assessment. 

Senator ROBERTS: You’ve had no contact at all with the state government on this project? 

Mr Edwards: That’s not what I said. 

Senator ROBERTS: I know it’s not what you said. I’m asking you. 

Mr Edwards: We’re certainly aware that there’s some work being prepared. 

Senator ROBERTS: By the Queensland state government? 

Mr Edwards: By the state government. We expect that there may be a referral sometime soon, but, unfortunately, I don’t have details of that. 

Senator ROBERTS: What information does the department have in regard to the impact of Coomera connector stage 2 on the estimated 299 bird species in the Eagleby Wetlands? 

Mr Edwards: I don’t have any information about that. 

Senator ROBERTS: None at all? Our information is that Coomera connector stage 2 has seven potential EPBC triggers in terms of sensitive fauna and flora. What triggers or potential triggers has the department been made aware of? None at all? 

Mr Edwards: The only contact we’ve had is a pre-referral meeting. There would have been a conversation, in general terms, about the types of impacts that may be in a referral document. What we do in those meetings is refer people to the relevant statutory guidelines and other things that they’ll need to consider in preparing the referral. 

Senator ROBERTS: In preparing their submission to you? 

Mr Edwards: Yes, that’s right. It’s more of a general exploration conversation about how to set up a good referral when it does come. 

Senator ROBERTS: Did they mention migratory bird species? 

Mr Edwards: I don’t have any information about the content of that meeting, but, if it were a likely impact, we’d generally run through threatened species, migratory species and Ramsar if that were relevant. 

Senator ROBERTS: Flooding of humans? 

Mr Edwards: Sorry? 

Senator ROBERTS: Flooding of humans? 

Mr Edwards: No. I don’t regulate impacts from— 

Senator ROBERTS: Diversion of rivers? 

Mr Edwards: No. 

Senator ROBERTS: Is there any chance of getting the contents of the discussion on notice? 

Mr Edwards: We would only have been talking about the controlling provisions under the EPBC Act. It includes threatened species, migratory species and Ramsar if that were relevant. 

Senator ROBERTS: Are there any minutes for that meeting? 

Mr Edwards: I’ll have to take that on notice. 

Senator ROBERTS: Please see if we could get a copy. 

Mr Edwards: Of course. 

Senator ROBERTS: Thank you very much. 

Pristine Australian bushland environments are being torn apart for metal monsters.

Short-lived and resource-hungry wind turbines are going up all over Queensland as part of Australia’s Net Zero 2050. These monstrosities are nothing more than a pipe dream for ‘free energy’.

Wind does not and cannot provide baseload power that coal provides cheaply and reliably.

To ensure coal mines restore the environment, coal mines pay a hefty bond for land disturbed. This bond is only returned after restoration is completed after mining.

Wind power companies pay NO environmental bond to make good afterwards.

I guarantee, if the government stopped propping wind and solar up with ‘free money’ the investors would run a mile and that is exactly what is happening overseas.

When will Australia acknowledge what a green-washed white elephant these wind projects are and back out before more birds disappear and more of the environment is destroyed?

I bet Andrew Forrest wouldn’t put one in his own backyard. Would you?

I will be in Cairns on Tuesday, 15 August 2023 to listen to your concerns regarding the escalation of youth crime and any other areas of concern you or your community may have.

Please join me.

RSVP here: https://www.onenation.org.au/cairns-crimeforum

If you are planning to eat at the Rattle n Hum, please book direct with them on (07) 4031 3011

Tuesday, 15 August 2023 | 6 pm to 7:30 pm

Rattle n Hum Bar & Grill

65-67 The Esplanade

Cairns QLD 4870

While in Townsville I spoke with Mark of the North Queensland Freedom Network about the upsurge in crime Queensland is seeing, as well as many other issues, particularly those relating to North Queensland.

For 25 years One Nation has been raising issues the major parties are too scared to talk about.

Whether it’s being labelled racist for wanting to treat every Australian equally regardless of race, or xenophobic for pointing out unsustainable rates of immigration, the mainstream media’s lies have never stopped us in our journey to put Australia first.

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In the months ahead One Nation will explain our vision for this beautiful country of ours. We will explain what we mean when we talk of one Queensland community and one nation with one flag that represents all Australians—those who were here first and those who have come since. We’ll cover the importance of treating each and every Australian fairly, offering equality of opportunity and assistance with dignity for those who cannot support themselves.

In the 25 years since Pauline Hanson founded One Nation to advance these principles her predictions have proven prescient. Remember when Pauline said Australia was going to be 25 per cent foreign-born within 25 years and the media piled on, calling that fear mongering, impossible and racist, for good measure. Well, Australia is now 29 per cent foreign-born and the number is rising. Where are the industries and jobs to support 28 million people by 2026? Where are the roads and railways? Where is the water and power generation? Where are the schools, hospitals and police stations? These are the policy time bombs that One Nation has been trying to get the public to discuss for 25 years. Now the day Pauline warned us about has arrived.

In the last few weeks I have travelled and listened to Queenslanders who are not safe in their own homes and can no longer afford their power bills, their grocery bills and their rent or their mortgages. Our national housing stock is short one million homes, and Prime Minister Albanese’s solution in today’s housing bill is to create a scheme that will help a few thousand people, not the million who need it. And that’s just those who are here now.

Warning of the impending population crisis has caused One Nation to be called racist and Nazi. These words no longer provide protection for the groups in our community they were designed to protect, so devalued have they become from their use as extreme expressions of misrepresentation, disagreement and hatred. These words tell me about our opponents, not about who I am. Everyday Australians now find their backs against the wall the government put there. Pauline saw this day coming. Why didn’t you?

The Club of Rome have led to call to reduce the world’s population for 40 years, based on their projection of the world population continuing to grow to as many as 15 billion people. Last month the Club of Rome updated their population projection for the first time in 40 years, and reduced the projection dramatically.

The new projection is as little as 8 billion people by 2050, which is less people than now.

The population apocalypse is the reason given for forcing bug and lab grown protein on the public, the entire net zero campaign is also based on a growing world population.

I hope the scaremongers can move on and let everyday Australians get on with enjoying this beautiful country without their destructive agendas.

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As a servant to the many different people of our Queensland community, my comments tonight celebrate humanity. New data shows the world has been saved from the population apocalypse. Even more surprising, the data has come from the Club of Rome. Before I excite the chamber with the wonderful news that the Australia we know and some of us love is safe from green grinches, here’s some background. 

For many years the Club of Rome maintained the world population was out of control and would exceed nine billion, most likely 10 billion and possibly 15 billion. This was being used to justify onerous antihuman restrictions in how we live. The antihuman green lobby has decided that, because of population growth, everyday Australians should eat less, travel less, have fewer children, live in hive homes stacked on top of each other and leave nothing to their children. The antihuman green lobby decided private interests should not own and develop natural resources—or, as they prefer to call it, the commons. Instead, a Soviet style elite, who in practice would be the world’s richest individuals, should own all resources. Even homes, cars, refrigerators and brown goods would be rented, not owned. Aboriginal and native title would be over land they occupy yet continue to not own; in fact, no-one would own it. 

To make sure this happens, the antihuman green lobby will implement measures to force all physical goods to be repairable and recyclable, to include a very high percentage of recycled materials and to operate on such a low electricity rating that they may not work at all. This huge increase in cost would price household goods out of the reach of everyday Australians. This absurd wonder of Soviet central planning is called the circular economy, which is another way of saying everyday Australians will never own anything new. Wealthy investment funds and superannuation funds will own everything. 

I’m sure you’ve heard the campaign slogan: ‘You will own nothing and be happy.’ This is what the antihuman green grinches serve. The party of the trees has turned into the party of the tall poppies. Recently they voted against my motion to investigate in vitro lab meat because they know the countryside will be locked up and food will be mass produced as bug burgers or, worse, fake meat grown in bioreactors in the same way cancer cells are grown. 

Antihuman greens and teals openly promote this reduction in living standards. They say it’s necessary because there will be too many people in the world to sustain the old way of doing things. By ‘the old way’, I mean Australians having the freedom to work harder, accumulating wealth and assets, enjoying a comfortable retirement and then passing their wealth on to their children to give them a head start in life. There’s no room for that in the Soviet republic of Greensland! All this is based on a lie that the world’s population is expanding so rapidly that we must, today, start to destroy the wealth of everyday Australians and to lock up the sea and the countryside—which they call the commons—to save it from overproduction. We can now call off the population apocalypse. Here’s the good news for human beings the world over. Recently the Club of Rome released a follow-up to its infamous limits of growth study, which has caused 50 years of shivering bedwetting from the green lobby. This is a significant document as the first major review to the limits of growthin 50 years. Who conducted these new calculations? The Earth4All collective of leading environmental science and economic institutions, including the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Norwegian Business School. 

The Club of Rome modelled two scenarios. If we do nothing, the world’s population will top out at 8.9 billion—it’s already eight billion—in 2050 before falling to 7.3 billion in 2100. Or, if we work hard on improving the living standards of developing nations, as One Nation supports, the world’s population will top out at 8.6 billion—remember it’s only eight billion now—in 2040 and then fall to just six billion in 2100. Six billion: that’s it! 

This clearly shows that we do not need to lock up the commons in order to protect it. Over time our natural environment will be used less, not more. We don’t need to reduce everyone’s share down to subsistence levels. The reduction in population will make current consumption easily sustainable. We do need to provide sensible stewardship of the natural environment and reuse, recycle and introduce new materials like hemp plastics, of course. This is wonderful news. 

What will the anti-human green grinches use now to generate fear, to generate their own bizarre brand of environmental self-flagellation? Soviet style? Without a doubt the answer is: they will do whatever it takes—whatever lie and whatever twisting of the data it takes to keep the fear campaign going. It’s time to take another look at the fundamental assumptions of the climate campaign. The emperor has no clothes. One Nation enjoys truth. One Nation shares the truth. 

The huge increase in immigration to over 400,000 new arrivals in 2023 is the primary cause of the rental crisis gripping our nation, and particularly in regional Queensland (ABC News 3/4/2023).

Queensland is short thousands of homes, with no plans to catch up on building all of the houses we will need in the future.

Join me on Saturday, 24 June 2023 to discuss our plans for a future with better housing and more affordable living.

To assist with seating, please RSVP: https://www.onenation.org.au/housingcrisis

Saturday, 24 June 2023 | 11am to 1pm

Sugarland Tavern
52 Johnston Street
Bundaberg QLD 4670

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Contact: Senator Malcolm Robert’s Office | senator.roberts@aph.gov.au | 07 3221 9099

BOOK NOW – Come and join us for cocktails and conversation of all things politics at this one-off event at one of Brisbane’s most picturesque and historical venues.

With an auction, a raffle and a lucky door prize on offer, it will be a fun night and a rare opportunity to put the world right with a couple of experts.

RSVP Essential: https://www.onenation.org.au/bridging-conversations

Friday, 16 June 2023 | 6pm to 9pm

Story Bridge Hotel
200 Main St
Kangaroo Point, QLD 4169
Australia
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RSVP: https://www.onenation.org.au/bridging-conversations

Queensland is experiencing an escalation in violent youth crime, causing tensions to rise among concerned households.

Join me this Saturday, 17 June 2023, as we discuss the issues of Queensland’s current lawlessness epidemic, the role of law enforcement and the criminal justice system in Queensland.

RSVP here: https://www.onenation.org.au/senatorroberts_crimeforum_bribie_jun17

Saturday, 17 June 2023 | 2pm to 3:30pm

Bribie Island RSL
99 Toorbul Street, Bongaree QLD 4507
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Contact: Senator Malcolm Robert’s Office | senator.roberts@aph.gov.au | 07 3221 9099

RSVP: https://www.onenation.org.au/senatorroberts_crimeforum_bribie_jun17

Monday, 12 June 2023: If you can’t make it to the Highway Hotel and want to catch up before I head off to Bundaberg on Monday morning, I will be at the Grind and Grow Coffee House from 8:30am until around 10am.

40 Mulgrave Street, GIN GIN.