Barnaby Joyce (New England, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

This is my first constituency statement since coming back after the Christmas break, and there are a range of important issues that I want to convey to my electorate and to the Australian parliament.

Overwhelmingly, people are very angry about the changes to firearms legislation. They can't understand why their freedoms have yet again been intruded upon when they have never committed a crime. No farmer, no sports shooter, no recreational shooter was part of the outrageous massacre at Bondi Beach, yet we are the people they've come to as they try to placate those who require something to be done. People say, 'Why do you need more than four firearms if you're a recreational shooter?' Well, why do you need more than one bathroom? You've only got one neck—why do you need 12 ties? You have only yourself—why do you need three cars? We have our right. It's a private right. It's a right of ownership. It's been intruded upon.

People really have a problem with the censorship laws, which are masquerading as hate laws, because they see it as the creep of censorship. We know that what would end up being censored is, basically, right-wing views against a left-wing socialist government. We could see this coming, and we didn't want to have these censorship laws placed on us. We will back antisemitic policy 100 per cent. We'll be at the forefront, but we've got to be focused on the antisemitic issues of fundamental Islamic terrorists against Jewish people and not draw in this net of other things.

We've had an enormous requirement in our office for new flags, because people believe that we should have an Australian culture. It's not a multicultural nation; it's an Australian culture. Many cultures may be part of it, but overwhelmingly the guardrails are for the Australian culture.

The rollout of intermittent power—the wind turbines, the solar panels—continues to be at the forefront. One Nation has come forward and said, 'Let's build the coal-fired power stations and go back to what actually works.' We now have the BESSs, the battery energy storage systems, and there are fire risks and problems associated with them. Once more, these have been placed in regional areas, not in urban areas, so we do the penance for an urban desire for climate policy, and that is completely unfair.

Telecommunications also remains at the forefront.

I'd also like to say that this weekend I'll be going to Victoria. We'll have a packed-out room full of farmers, and we're going to make sure that these issues and others are covered with the people of Victoria. I look forward to getting down there and making sure that we take their message back to Canberra and fight for them.

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