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

What I will say, again, is that the Labor Party has not been genuine here. This is a complex bill. We know some people in the senate have seen it. We have not. Why not? Has Senator Lambie seen it? No. She said she hadn't. Why are some people getting it and not others? This is a complex bill that needs to be done properly for the workers of this country. This is about union bosses making sure that donations get back to the Labor Party. That's why we need a thorough inquiry to assess the benefits for workers and to give small businesses an opportunity to comment, and so that we can all have proper scrutiny of the bill. I will be supporting the Liberal-National coalition on this. I will not be voting for the Labor Party rushing this through the chamber.

I want to make a comment again, to emphasise that the climate change bill was in the hands of the Greens and Senator Pocock for weeks before we even saw it. Why? Now we have the Greens justifying it, but my point is that this bill needs solid scrutiny for the benefit of small business and workers.