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

How do everyday Australians know there's an election in the air? Well, it's simple: the leaders of the opposition and the government polish their public images. When John Howard gave himself a superficial makeover in 1998, a young Anthony Albanese called out the Prime Minister as indulging in 'same stuff, different bucket'. Mr Albanese needs to listen to his own advice. It's not the bucket that matters; it's the contents. Mr Albanese is now bearing a bucket filled with nothing but empty buzzwords, devoid of substance, leadership and most certainly independence. Anthony Albanese will toe the globalist line and deliver Australia to China and to international capital—the billionaires that run the world, as I say.

This is a Labor Party that sided with the Liberals against One Nation's attempts to protect bank deposits from being stolen by the banks in a bail-in. Labor had to be shamed by One Nation and their own ethnic Labor branches into opposing the cash ban bill. Labor will not support compensation for historical victims of criminal banking fraud. This is not a labour party; it's a party of the World Economic Forum and their 'life by subscription' model.

Only two weeks ago, at the Australian Banking Association conference, ALP shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers spoke in support of a central bank digital currency, where cash, crypto, gold and silver are replaced by a programmable electronic currency. 'Programmable' means the currency expires if you don't spend it and the government gets to tell you what your money can be spent on. Central banks' digital currencies are designed to prevent savings that provide everyday Australians with independence through financial security. They make us dependent. Digital currencies will most certainly expire on the death of the holder, another form of death tax—there we go again from Labor.

This is the world offered by the Labor Party: complete control by unelected, unaccountable foreign powers. Anthony Albanese will not protect Australians— (Time expired)