Corinne Mulholland (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

When asked a simple question about One Nation's election policies, the response from Senator Hanson was: 'Don't ask me stupid questions. It's got nothing to do with me.' That tells you everything—no detail, no accountability and no responsibility; just performance. That's exactly what we're seeing tonight from One Nation. This is just performative clickbait for their social media following. Ordinarily, you may say, 'Look, that's One Nation. That's what they do,' but this motion—something in it I think is worth the Australian people taking notice of, particularly the people who are backing this motion.

The Liberal Party is backing this One Nation motion—the party that claims to be for small business. The party that lectures everyone in this chamber about economic responsibility is preparing to vote for a motion that would force businesses to hold large volumes of cash on site, potentially exposing them to theft, increasing their costs and increasing their risk. This motion, and the fact it's being backed by the Liberal Party, is economically incoherent and politically cowardly. It is at odds with everything they say they stand for.

The timing of this could be more telling. Just a few days after the member for Hume, Angus Taylor, declared he would take up the fight to One Nation as the new Liberal leader, he would defend the coalition's credibility, he would draw a line—

I have a feeling he doesn't like it now!