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

[by video link] Senator Wong's motion clarifies the voting choices on offer to the electorate at the next election. Senator Wong has made it clear that, under an Albanese-Bandt government, there will be no place for democracy, there will be no place for freedom of speech and there will be no place for independent thought. There will be no democracy under a government that the Labor Party leads. There will only be mindless conformity.

The very nature of the Senate is to bring together representatives with different opinions based on different life experiences, education and origin. Such a debate will necessarily leverage opposing facts and opposing interpretations of facts and through this process is more likely to arrive at the truth. Data and truth lead to sound, sustainable policy decisions. With this motion, Senator Wong is demonstrating why a Labor-Greens government so seldom makes good policy decisions, as we saw with the last Labor-Greens government. Echo chambers do not make for good government. One Nation will defend our democracy and our right to free speech. We will continue to advocate debate on the issues of the day, including COVID injections, and we will continue to call out unelected bureaucrats with massive financial conflicts of interest.

Australia is not a corporate dictatorship, no matter how hard Senator Wong and this parliament try to make it one. On the weekend half a million Australians demonstrated what they think of Senator Wong's motion. Despite media censorship and suppression, half a million Australians came out to defend freedom of speech and freedom of choice. In a beautiful expression of unity across political, religious, professional and cultural backgrounds everyday Australians around the country demonstrated a love for one flag, one community and one nation. I've attended marches and rallies at Brisbane and the Gold Coast and will be doing so again this coming Saturday, in support of the people and in support of freedom. I felt people's anger, their determination, their resentment, their sadness, their grief and their disdain for MPs and senators who ignore the people, who try to control the people.

With this motion Senator Wong is saying to the millions who demonstrated and to people who cheered them on from home: shut up and comply. What a clear picture of life under a Labor-Greens government Labor has painted today. One Nation will never shut up and comply. We will support people who have the freedom to speak up and the courage and integrity to speak up. We compliment and appreciate the Livingston council in Central Queensland, the Capricorn Coast. What a wonderful example of courage; integrity; listening to, supporting, working for and serving the people, in their latest declaration motion that was passed unanimously last week. We applaud you. Thank you very much, Mayor and all councillors.

In One Nation we listen, we stand up and we speak up. We are representatives of the people. We work for the people. We serve the people. We will always support freedom and basic human rights. We have one flag, we are one community, we are one people and we are one nation.