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

One Nation does not support this motion. The Kyoto carryover credits were created by stealing property rights from farmers without compensation. Farmers lost the right to manage their land and vegetation without compensation. The purchase of freehold land has been turned into a leasehold agreement, with government controlling the land use through overburdensome and crippling regulations. The decision by the Howard government to steal property rights without compensation remains to this day an unjust and morally reprehensible decision that the Morrison government refuses to reverse.

It has been estimated that to compensate farmers for their loss of rights would cost in excess of $200 billion, but they should be compensated. If this government is unwilling to compensate then it must immediately restore full property rights to farmers so they can recover their productive capacity. Farmers are the best custodians of the land and do not need to be brought into this mess that is climate change.