Sean Bell (NSW, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

This budget is another part of a big Labor lie. Labor told you, the Australians watching at home, that electricity prices would come down. Labor told you that the Medicare card would be all you need to see a GP for free. They told you 50 times that they would not touch negative gearing and they would not touch capital gains tax, and now they are telling you those broken promises will somehow help young people buy a home and live a fairer life. That is the big lie at the heart of this budget. They are asking Australians to believe two impossible things at once: making investment harder for somehow make housing easier, and Labor can break a clear promise and still be trusted. They cannot be trusted. This is a budget that lies and pretends it doesn't tax workers, but it does. A nurse with a rental property is a worker. She's not a robber baron. A tradie putting money into shares is a worker. They are not the enemy. The small-business owner building an asset for retirement is a worker, not a loophole to be closed. What we are looking at is pure class warfare dressed up, plain and simple.

These workers are not the problem with Australia; they are its backbone. But, under Labor, aspiration and success have become something to punish and tax. What is the message to a young couple trying to save and invest? The message is, 'Don't bother.' What is the message to a young tradie hoping to buy a unit and one day turn it into an investment for his future? The message is: 'Don't get ahead of yourself, mate. That's not fair.' One Nation disagrees. We believe in aspiration. We believe Australians should be rewarded for work, saving, investment and risk. We believe young Australians need a real, fair path to ownership and wealth, not a government that pulls up the property ladder and then calls it justice.

Is it fairness to saddle future generations with a trillion-dollar debt and a net zero obsession that costs $100 billion a year and will not change the weather one bit? No, that is not fairness. Is it fairness to allow mass migration to flood the housing market and compete with young people for rental properties and homes? No, that is not fairness. One Nation believes that Australians deserve a government that keeps its word, and what we have over there is a government that does not keep its word. They break promises. They cannot be trusted. This budget is a broken promise, a tax grab and a direct attack on aspiration—aspiration at the very heart of the values that make us Australians.

The next time the Labor government makes a promise, tells you the electricity price will come down or holds up a Medicare card and says that's all you need, remember: this is a government that breaks its word. (Time expired)