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

Thank you. Well, to them it must have seemed horrifying, to see so many Australian flags on display in support of a strong, united nation, and the hateful Greens are deliberately misinforming and misrepresenting the Australians who marched peacefully on Sunday. They have the gall the insult Australians standing for Australia. They've dragged out all of the usual tropes and insults to marginalise and dismiss people who love their country and who don't support the Marxist, anti-Australian agenda being forced on them without their consent.

Australians are still free to oppose the Greens and their radical agenda. Australians are still free to oppose Labor's record immigration, driving them into homelessness. Australians are still free to oppose multiculturalism and demand a society that it cohesive and unified. Australians are still free to fly their national flag—and I encourage them: put it out there. However, I've heard the Australian Defence Force discourage serving members from marching under that flag on Sunday. They're asked to fight under it but discouraged from marching with it. The Greens just hate that Australians have these freedoms, so they lash out in hatred at people who exercise them.

One Nation senators were proud to stand with ordinary Australians who have been silenced and disenfranchised and who just want to be heard and represented. The majority of Australians don't want Labor's record high level of immigration. I hope you realise that. They see the rents going up, the longer lines to inspect rentals, and the Australians forced to live in tents and cars on the streets. The see the protests in support of terrorism, and they see the Greens encouraging them. They see the good values that built and defended this nation being eroded before their eyes. They see the very character and identity of Australia being perverted.

We want our country back. They want their country back. And, as they said to me, they were so proud to see that at least a member of parliament actually turned up, and not by myself; I was accompanied by Senator Roberts and Senator Tyron Whitten. The Australian people were so proud to see that we took the time. The others didn't turn up, because—do you know what?—they know how much they hate you, because of the policies you're imposing on them. (Time expired)