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

One Nation will support this motion. Australia has the most attractive offshore gas laws in the world. These laws act as a magnet for foreign-owned integrated gas businesses, like ConocoPhillips, because they don't pay for our gas, don't pay income tax on the profits made from selling our gas and don't give us any gas, leaving us with higher priced onshore gas. The Prime Minister's gas led manufacturing strategy is just another marketing campaign until the gas laws are reformed, because Australia is the only large gas producer in the world where the domestic gas price is higher than the export gas price. One Nation will not support drilling in sensitive environmental areas, including the Great Southern Reef and the pristine waters near South Australia or Tasmania.

Question agreed to.