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

My concern is for the Aboriginal people, those kids that are not getting the education. We find that now their educational level is going up to six or seven and then they're dropping out. We're not preparing them for the future as well. Why do we pay people? Why did you get rid of the card? That was actually working. But as soon as Labor got in you got rid of it. Now you've got an organisation—they have not accepted the decision by the Australian people to get rid of the Voice. They are now organising to keep that going. You've got treaties, division that's happening in Australia. Why? It's because you won't stand up to and acknowledge the problem that is happening. I've never seen so much division happening in Australia as under this government. We never had it before. It's just escalated. And the hatred that was out there—you talk about incarceration. If you commit the crime then you've got to actually be punished for it. Talk to the kids about resilience.

Through the chair: the minister laughs about this. The minister thinks it's a joke. It's not a joke. These people's lives are being destroyed. But you have to be accountable. The parents don't send the kids to schools. You're setting them up for failure, and that's a problem that's happening there—the sexual abuse that goes on. What's done about it? Nothing, because you can't do anything about it, because you're going to be called a racist.

When are we going to wake up to ourselves in this place, to treat everyone equally on an individual needs basis and not based on what race you are? That is what's divisive in this nation. We are all Australians together, whether you migrated or whether you were born here. When are we going to get over the fact that you've got be Indigenous or non-Indigenous? We're dividing this nation, our land, and the people in this place are responsible for that.