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

Proverbs 18:15 teaches that the heart of the prudent attains knowledge and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. The worst virus response in Australian history—the most destructive and deadly government response in history—deserves the pursuit of knowledge necessary to do better next time. As Winston Churchill said after World War II, those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Currently, the government is busy failing to learn from history, knowingly and deliberately avoiding learning.

So I was pleased to see last night's episode of the Channel 7 show Spotlight deal with the COVID response in a balanced and responsible manner, advancing knowledge that was news to many viewers. Spotlight was a welcome mainstream media step to address their COVID propaganda and fearmongering. I hope this is the start of the media rediscovering journalistic integrity, and I hope the government was watching the audience's mood, quite clearly in favour of a judicial inquiry and justice for victims of malpractice and malfeasance in office that pervaded the government's COVID response.

The government's and globalist Liberals' refusal to fully understand every aspect of our response shows they value their own careers above the welfare of everyday Australians. The uniparty's continued refusal to call a judicial inquiry betrays our community, goes against our humanity and suggests an immovable object acting on this place that's all powerful, corrupt and morally bankrupt. The audience's emotion was borne of grief, frustration and anger—emotions the audience had every right to display, such has been the loss of life and the damage to life, to businesses and to communities.

The truth is the government got our COVID response horribly and inhumanely wrong. It's now our sworn duty to put that right, to call a judicial inquiry or a royal commission, to seek the knowledge to make amends for harm caused and to do better next time. It's an action needed without fear or favour, no matter the consequence.