Senate debates

Thursday, 26 August 2021

Committees

Financing Critical Infrastructure and Sovereign Capability Select Committee; Appointment

11:48 am

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

One Nation opposes this motion. Paragraph (1) is the key paragraph. Within that, in regard to clause (a), the answer is already known, but it's not surprising that members of the parliament are not aware. For clause (b), the core issue is decades of shoddy governance and lack of parliamentary accountability. Our inquiry into the use of taxpayer money on disaster recovery funding would start to address these issues. My dissenting report to the Northern Australia Agenda inquiry itemised many concerns, including the need for comprehensive tax reform for practical industrial relations reform to protect workers and small businesses. Clause (d) is largely known and understood. This would be a waste of money, and it is not sincere.

Question negatived.

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