Tyron Whitten (WA, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) | Link to this | Hansard source

It takes some serious gall to come out and celebrate the latest immigration figures as a win; the third-highest immigration figures in Australia's history—during a housing crisis fuelled by Labor's previous two record immigration years. That is another 306,000 people that need homes that we don't have, who will need our doctors and hospitals that are stretched to breaking point and who will pile into a job market this Labor government is killing with its disastrous budget. This is the population of Geelong added in a year, or one-and-a-half of Hobart's—and the Labor Party is trying to tell you that this is some sort of victory? This is managed decline. This is a party that is willing to sell out Australians and their standard of living to hold on to power. They're willing to sell us out for votes. This is not rhetoric; this is fact.

The Institute of Public Affairs has analysed the per capita economic growth of the last five Labor and coalition governments. This is the only government, going back to 1975, to preside over a per capita decline in the Australian economy. It is the only government that has seen the Australian people go backwards. The middle class is shrinking and the working class is ballooning because people are being pushed down. People who used to have enough for their house, their family and their bills, with something left over for a rainy day, are now struggling to make ends meet. People are turning to food banks and homeless shelters in huge numbers. Police, nurses, teachers, those who once lived comfortably, are now on the brink with a Labor government that has the gall to tell them it is on their side. This government keeps spending, keeps taxing and keeps immigration at record levels. The Australian people deserve a real change, and One Nation is ready to deliver it.