Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) | Hansard source

First of all, I want to make the point that Professor Peter Ridd has got enormous courage and integrity. He has stood up and put himself on public trial, and he has been vindicated in a court of law with evidence under oath. The second point I want to make is that the Labor Party in Queensland is now embarking on pushing through bills that will smash the agricultural sector along the east coast of our home state, and it is based on a consensus statement—no science; a consensus statement. The third point I want to make is that there is nothing to fear from an open inquiry, because the objective decider in science is always empirical data—hard, measured data and observable observations. This is the key, and this inquiry is absolutely essential.

The PRESIDENT: The question is that business of the Senate motion No. 1 be agreed to.