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

Nothing illustrates the contempt Labor has for farmers and regional Australia better than its net zero obsession. I am appalled at laws pushed through by the arrogant Victorian Labor government last week. This legislation enables transmission-line builders to forcibly enter private property and allow for the arrest of any farmer who refuses access. Labor does not understand that we cannot eat turbines, high-voltage wires, solar panels or pylons. Labor does not care about our farmers, our regional communities or our capacity to feed people.

Labor has been fighting a war against farmers for years. The Albanese government has banned live sheep exports and has forced more water from irrigators, yet its agriculture minister actually claimed yesterday the government has backed them every step of the way. Why, then, did farmers roundly boo—yes, boo—the Prime Minister at the Bush Summit? And then he turns around and says, 'I won't tell you any BS.' Oh my God! That went down like a lead balloon too. What a load of BS that statement is.

Why are they protesting against Labor policy here in Canberra and in Melbourne, Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales—actually, right across the whole country? Labor is lying. Labor doesn't care, because those transmission lines and wind towers will never appear in Labor electorates in the city. Can you imagine wind turbines towering over Sydney Harbour or on the banks of the Yarra or Brisbane rivers? Of course not. It is the regions which are being forced to bear the burden.

One Nation stands for property rights in Victoria and across the country. One Nation stands firmly against wind towers and transmission lines being forced onto productive farmland. One Nation stands against net zero and Labor's cult of climate change. One Nation stands for farmers and regional communities in Victoria and across Australia. (Time expired)