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

The nature-positive bills align with the international Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted in 2022 at the UN Biodiversity Conference. Once again, the Anthony Albanese Labor government is demonstrating fealty to international agendas over the interests of everyday Australians. The Labor Party has not seen a problem that it did not want to institutionalise through the creation of a new bureaucracy to milk yet more taxpayer money while not actually achieving anything—unless one counts rank stupidity as an achievement!

The Roy Hill mine was fined $18,000 for the offence of not providing a fauna spotter to walk in front of their bulldozers—in front of their bulldozers, which breaches state occupational health and safety rules! The federal law had primacy. The larger the federal government, the more overreach like this occurs and the more we see conflicting state and federal laws. The regulatory environment in 2025 is strangling the life out of our productive economy, and this government wants to add more. The motivation for this bill is an ideology that says, 'Mining's bad, dams are bad, farming's bad and anything that provides wealth and opportunity independent of government is bad.'

The fact that the government would consider a new watchdog shows that existing laws have not worked. One Nation can agree with that. The UN green agenda is killing the environment to save it. It's killing the planet to save the environment, with the enthusiastic support of Minister Bowen and Prime Minister Albanese. It is not nature positive to blow the tops off hills and mountains to install massive wind turbines which create in their wake a five-kilometre environmental dead zone where birds can't fly, destroying once-thriving bird habitats. It is not nature positive to bulldoze 75-metre-wide scars thousands of kilometres long across national parks, state forests and farmland to carry power from these wind turbines back to the cities. It is not nature positive to carve the sides off mountains to widen and straighten roads to take 100-metre-long wind turbine blades to the construction sites. It is not nature positive to cancel dam construction, as this government did when they cancelled the Hells Gate Dam, only to stand back just three years later and watch as water flooding from the Burdekin River devastated cities in North Queensland.

Nothing in this bill will help the natural environment. It will be used for political green activism, getting Greens party preferences, killing mining, killing dams, killing mountains and forests and killing the environment in the name of saving the planet. It will be used to promote the failed green climate fraud. One Nation support Senator Duniam's motion. The nature positive bills will make farming, mining and industry harder. They will take jobs, wealth and opportunity from everyday Australians while providing no noticeable benefits to the natural environment.