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

I move:

That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to the Albanese government and the Australian Greens.

We have heard plenty of porkies from Labor, but for the Prime Minister to repeat himself 385 times before an election and then change his position is a betrayal of the people that put him in the job in the first place. I haven't been here a particularly long time, and I'm sure there was a time when the Labor Party were for the working class. There probably was a time when they didn't cave to the Greens to pass terrible legislation. There was probably even a time when they had some moral fortitude. But that time is long gone. The Labor Party that I have seen deals exclusively with the radical Greens. The Labor Party that I have seen raises taxes, hurts families and kills ambition. The Labor Party that I have seen sells up its houses, grandfathers its investments and feathers its nests right before it pulls the ladder up on the next generation.

One Nation rejects the changes to the CGT, negative gearing and family trusts. They will have a disastrous effect on the ambition and ingenuity of this country. These changes prove that this is a government that doesn't understand economics. They think that wealth just happens like a magic pudding, and the only question is how to carve it up: 'Who should we distribute the wealth to? Whose vote can I buy? Where do my kickbacks come from?' All this despite the government having nothing to do with generating wealth of this country—taking no risk but destroying the reward. And they turn to the Greens when they need this rubbish rushed through. They have made the radical tax grabs worse by holding up the vital reforms to the NDIS. The Greens are setting the agenda for the Labor government. They are pushed further and further to the left, leaving workers behind for an agenda that raises power prices, pushes rents higher and maintains record immigration rates.

This is a government that will say anything to stay in power, and a prime minister that will repeat 385 times that he will not make deals with the Greens and then turn around and cut deals left, right and centre. One Nation has stood by its word. We will be the party of integrity, something sorely lacking by Labor and the dirty Greens.

Question agreed to.

Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) | Link to this | Hansard source

I understand Senator Carr is taking the call to present the Privileges Committee report.