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

Thank you, Senator Canavan. Some of these are highly significant bills. We had all the talk this morning about democracy, doing a proper job representing the people and staff workloads. That's all collapsed. We've now got 27 bills. That's a fraud in my view—presenting one thing this morning and coming back and agreeing to basically the same thing.

We have the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 left out. That was good news. But wait! We've got the Liberal and National parties moving an amendment to put the online safety bill back into the guillotine. It's one of the most far-reaching and consequential bills ever, and it's back in thanks to the Liberal and National parties. All that talk about democracy—what deals were done selling out the people again? We've got the crossbench moving to the government, and we've got the other cheek of the 'uniparty' moving to the government. Now we've got the Greens, who also opposed the guillotine this morning, wanting to add another bill to the guillotine this afternoon. This is just extraordinary. It'll leave only the United Australia Party and One Nation—and, perhaps, some of the stronger coalition senators with us.

But I can make a guarantee about one thing: this Senate will continue to sell out the Australian people. And I can make a guarantee about a second thing: One Nation will keep serving the people, keep ensuring scrutiny of these bills. Let's see who among the Liberals and Nationals will not support the amendment.