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

Minister, in response to my question about whether or not taxpayers are paying for the bill, you have not answered that question. Instead, you've used the word 'revenues' or 'diverse revenues', fully costed. Are you not aware that taxpayers are paying for this? Taxpayers are paying for it. What you've also mentioned is cost-of-living relief. The cost of living is rising dramatically because of government policies—your predecessors' and your own. So what we've got is net zero, the Paris agreement and driving up the cost of living, and then we get the cost-of-living bill, which is paid for by who? Taxpayers. And then we have HECS relief because of the cost of living, which is paid for by taxpayers. We are on a money carousel buying votes. That's what Labor is doing. It is a money carousel buying votes, taking money from one pocket to the next pocket. But both pockets are from the taxpayers. Minister, are you not aware that taxpayers fund this government?