Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) | Hansard source

I can't believe what I'm hearing here. You say you're great economic managers. I'll go back to the time when the Keating government handed over to the Howard government. You actually had a $96 billion debt. Then what happened after that? The coalition handed $20 billion to the Labor Party, who took it over. That was the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd government. Apart from that, you actually handed on a $250 billion debt to the coalition when they took over. So don't tell me you're good economic managers at all. The facts are: yes, we are in one hell of a mess; yes, people are doing it tough out there; the cost of living is ridiculous; and people are finding it hard.

I see the government have poured the new Governor-General another $200,000. She's now on $700,000 a year. Then this government has given $600 million for football for PNG. You have no idea how the Australian people feel about that one. They are absolutely furious. Then you spent $450 million on attempting to have the Voice. You have disregarded what the people think about the Voice, because you're still putting it in your own legislation and you're pushing ahead with dividing this nation.

You have failed the Australian people. You talk about a surplus of $9 billion. That is just absolutely nothing. Look at your debt. How much have you paid off your debt? That's what we want to know. That's what the Australian people want to know. How much have you paid off your debt? Basically, a household has $600 coming in. That's to run the whole household. You paid $9 off that—that's your $9 billion surplus. I'm putting it in simple terms. So you reckon you have a surplus of $9 out of $600 a year income. 'But don't look over here; we borrowed another $200 billion, which we put on our loan.' Don't tell me you're running an economy, because you're not.

Your cost of living is going up because you're fixated on wind and solar. You're absolutely fixated on it. Then you hand Twiggy Forrest $2 billion for hydrogen, which will not work. And then you keep going ahead with the Snowy 2.0, and that is an absolute disaster, which will cost now $12 billion. By the time you put in transmission lines, it will be up to $20 billion. You're not good economic managers. You are actually causing the cost-of-living crisis because you don't have dispatchable energy at a cheap cost. You have lied to the Australian people. You said you would lower the cost of energy by $275 a year, which you haven't done. You have actually spent money like it's 'just go and pick another batch of money off the tree'. The Australian taxpayers are paying for it, not you. You're absolutely hopeless.