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

I will repeat what I said. Children as young as two are being raped out there. It's fact. It's known. If the truth hurts—it bloody hurts me. It's disgraceful for this to happen. You also have domestic violence happening against these women. They are not being fought for. Because of their cultural background, no-one wants to stand up or say anything about it. We're letting these people down; we really are. I have them come to my office. There are native title claims over this land. Sixty per cent of our nation is under native title. What is actually happening with that? I had these Indigenous people come into my office years ago, and they said: 'Pauline, all we want is part of the land. Give us some of the land back, not through the land councils. We want it personally so we can actually go and build homes, run businesses and get loans. We want to further ourselves.' But no. We keep them tied down, keep them under this control so that you use them for your own benefits. That's what's so wrong and stinks in this bloody place. Nothing's being done about it.

They're crying out. These people just want freedom and to get on with their lives. A lot of these people have said they don't agree with the Voice and with splitting this nation. There shouldn't be three flags in this chamber. There's one flag; it's called the Australian flag. There are not three. This is more division that's happening in this country. We've had enough of welcome to country. We've had enough of that. The Australian people don't want a welcome to country or an acknowledgement of country. It was never a cultural thing that they did. It was brought in by Ernie Dingo. It was brought in by him. It's not cultural whatsoever. It keeps going on and on because of the payment that happens for any land or anything. To stop Australians from even travelling and going to places in our own country is disgraceful. The division has happened, and Australians want change. They want accountability. They want to know where their taxpayer dollars are going. Australians don't deny helping those who are truly in need, but we've allowed it to get out of hand, constantly, all the time. We are not making sure their taxpayer dollars are counted.

There is racism in this country; you'd better believe there's racism in this country. We have to be seen to be treating all Australians equally under one law. There are these poor children who constantly get pulled up for the crimes they're committing because they're taught the hatred, they're taught to have that opinion. All we're setting them up for is a life of crime—in prisons all the time. People don't go out there and get locked up because of their cultural background; they get locked up because they commit a crime against society. That's why they end up in our prison system. People have to take responsibility for their own actions and not just get off because of their cultural background. When we treat people equally in our country, that's when the gap will start to close.