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

Thank you. I sat and listened to Senator Hanson-Young's speech and her criticisms without interjecting. Now, I'm pointing out the facts here.

I ran into and was contacted by the Iranian people, by some of their—I won't say departments. They said, 'Thank you for standing up for us.' We don't want this war, but people are under dictatorship, and, if we leave it up to the Greens, we'll be under Marxism. That's what it is. That's what would come into this country. I can assure the people in the gallery that I don't want to see war. I don't want to see our people over there fighting. But we've been dealt this hand and we have to deal with it the best we can.

The situation is this. Over the weekend, I went out to the farming sector, and they are really on their knees. They are providing the food to the rest of the country, and they're saying: 'Pauline, we can't get the fuel. It's so expensive for us.' Not only that—guess what? They can't even get the fertiliser. If we don't have the fuel, we don't have the fertiliser. They don't know whether they're going to put a crop in, whether they'll actually be able to harvest that crop. They don't know the cost to them that's going to be involved. If the farming sector goes down, the whole community goes down—money to that area. This is the situation we're in now.

All these safeguarding mechanisms, environmental protection agencies—we have the fuel; we have the resources in this nation. It has been shut down by this Labor Party, backed totally by the Greens all the time to shut it down. We don't have the resources. We've lost our industries and manufacturing. The government has given $1 billion to Snowy Hydro to pay for the electricity for Tomago to keep them operating. You're backing this all the time. Projects that you've brought in destroyed our industries and manufacturing. Because of your electricity, 47,000 small businesses have gone under.

And I'll tell the people now: you might think that this war that's happening now over in the Middle East with Iran—be prepared for what's going to happen, because China have said they are going to invade Taiwan. They want Taiwan next year. If you think this is the start of it, it's not. It's going to get worse than that, because a lot of our imports come from China. If you're talking about fuel and energy now—start going after our own fuel here in this nation. Be self-sufficient. Start up the industries and manufacturing. If China invades Taiwan, we're going to be in one hell of a mess. We import $300 billion worth of product from there. That is going to be worse. We will be on our knees.

I've been speaking against globalisation since 1996. We don't have vision for this country. You're shutting it down, and that's why the people are living in poverty in this nation. It is absolutely disgusting—what you have done.

And you're to blame for it; the Greens are to blame for it. You have not done what is in the best interests of this nation. (Time expired)