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

The government is not communicating at all and has no respect for the people on whose behalf it's spending money—wasting money. I'll tell you why the government won't share the information: they're escaping accountability because they have no plan for the transition and no plan for what's coming.

I've managed large projects with plans. Firstly, to have a plan, you need to have scientific proof on which to lay everything. There is no scientific proof. The CSIRO have not provided it. I've checked with them and held them accountable three times, in three meetings, each of which were 2½ to three hours long. Nature alone determines the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. That's been scientifically proven. It's been proven by actual experience on this planet in 2009 and 2020.

Secondly, the atmosphere cools the land surface and the ocean surface. How can it possibly warm it? It doesn't. It cools it. The temperatures in the 1880s and the 1890s in Australia were far warmer than today. In the last 30 years, the temperature has been basically flat apart from natural variations due to El Nino and La Nina. That's it. We're producing record quantities of human carbon dioxide in China, Brazil, Russia, India, America and Europe, and the temperature has been flat. For extreme weather events, there's no trend. It's just flat. What are we basing all of this on? The government is basing it on computer models which are self-fulfilling. There's no scientific proof. We need to end the climate scam now.

Let's look at the next thing that should be in place. There should be a policy basis for the specific effect of human carbon dioxide on various climate factors: temperature; rainfall; snowfall; drought severity, duration, and frequency; and storms. There is no policy basis at all. The CSIRO has, again, failed to provide that, and we've seen that time and time again. There is no policy basis, so there's no policy. But, still, the people keep paying. If there were a policy basis, the next thing to consider in developing a plan is to have a cost-benefit analysis—to look at the various options and evaluate their costs and benefits. That's not been done. It has not been done on windmills and solar panels converting wind and solar to power—eking it out because of the high capital cost and the low productivity of the power.

If there were a cost-benefit analysis, it would identify a business case. There's been no business case for the transition. We're basically taking the whole country and its No. 1 infrastructure piece, the electricity grid, and hurtling over a cliff blindfolded. There is no business case whatsoever. If we had scientific proof, if we had a policy basis, if we had a cost-benefit analysis, if we had a business case—none of them are in existence, but, if we had all of them, then we would embark on a project plan. That's where you allocate resources—money and people—over time. There is no project plan. There's not even a costing. Who's going to pay for it? The people of Australia will pay for it in many, many ways. There's no project plan whatsoever on the biggest undertaking ever given to the Australian people.

The Australian people are now facing the trauma for no benefit whatsoever. We have the highest electricity prices in the world. We went from having the lowest in the world to amongst the highest in the world—it's certainly the highest outside of Europe, which has also been besotted with a solar and wind fixation. Minister Bowen is going to blow up the electricity grid, and the Greens and the Labor Party are colluding to bring in the misinformation and disinformation censorship bill. That is what they are doing. It's in their inquiry. Not one witness who opposed it was seen in the first two days of hearings—not one—but there are many who oppose it. We're putting a blindfold on and taking the people of Australia over the cliff. Electricity prices have never been higher. They were lower in the past. We've gone from having the lowest cost electricity to the highest cost electricity. Costs of living, standards of living, families being forced to pay—there's no competitive advantage in our country anymore. Tomago looks like it's shutting. Only One Nation opposes net zero, and only One Nation will pull out of the Paris Agreement.