Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the government business order of the day relating to the Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2022 and related bills be discharged from the Notice Paper.

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

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

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

One Nation will not be supporting this. We will be opposing it because it's simply Stephen Jones protecting the bankers again by removing penalties. We would want to amend it, not support it. I chaired the Senate Select Committee on Lending to Primary Production Customers. We saw firsthand the heinous activities of the banks. We now see that former Labor Queensland premier Anna Bligh is the head of the Australian Banking Association. Please explain. So we have Liberals and Labor running interference for the banks and protecting the banks. We've got rural bank closures accelerating and no provisions for their replacement. We need a postal bank and we have to stop equity theft in this country, because that's what the banks are doing.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I remind you that when referring to people in the other place that you use their correct titles. The question is that government business No. 2, standing in the name of Senator Gallagher, be agreed to.

Question agreed to.