MOTIONS

Senator HANSON (Queensland—Leader of One Nation) (10:22): Actually I do support this motion because we need to bring to bear what is happening to the Australian public with this. What a load of dribble has just come out of the Greens' mouth explaining that we're all for war. Senator Hanson-Young: It's your mate, Trump, Pauline!

Senator HANSON: The fact is that no-one in this chamber has said, 'We're going to go to war. We wanted to go to war'—never have done. Senator Hanson-Young: You've backed it since day one.

He's your mate. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Hanson, resume your seat. Senator Hanson-Young, please.

Senator HANSON: We've been hit with this situation now. I, and no other member of this chamber, want to see any Australian troops on foreign soil, fighting. We've seen enough of wars.

But we've been dealt the situation and now we have to deal with it. The biggest problem coming out of this, I see, is how exposed we are and that we cannot provide for ourselves in this nation. This has all come about due to climate change, have no doubt about it.

The legislation and laws that have been put into this place—led by the Greens, led by the Labor Party and started under the coalition many years ago—is why we're in this situation. Senator Hanson-Young interjecting— Senator HANSON: You're worrying now about what's happening over there. Do you know what?

I stand by the Iranian people that have been given their freedom from 47 years under a regime. And you come in here—and you think the Greens are saying they want to fight and stand up for women? What about the women there who are controlled and imprisoned, flogged— The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Order!

Senator Hanson, please resume your seat. Senator Hanson-Young, on a point of order? Senator Hanson-Young: A point of order.

I'd like Senator Hanson to explain why she wanted all of those Iranian women locked up in immigration detention for years. For years that's all she stood for. She just wants them locked up— The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Hanson-Young, resume your seat!

Senator Cash: We're not on broadcast. Senator Hanson-Young: I don't care about broadcast. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Hanson-Young, please cease interjecting.

Senator Hanson-Young interjecting— The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Hanson-Young, that is clearly a debating point. You know that. Senator HANSON: Thank you.

I sat and listened to Senator Hanson-Young's speech and her criticisms without interjecting. Now, I'm pointing out the facts here. I ran into and was contacted by the Iranian people, by some of their—I won't say departments.

They said, 'Thank you for standing up for us.' We don't want this war, but people are under dictatorship, and, if we leave it up to the Greens, we'll be under Marxism. That's what it is. That's what would come into this country.

I can assure the people in the gallery that I don't want to see war. I don't want to see our people over there fighting. But we've been dealt this hand and we have to deal with it the best we can.

The situation is this. Over the weekend, I went out to the farming sector, and they are really on their knees. They are providing the food to the rest of the country, and they're saying: 'Pauline, we can't get the fuel.

It's so expensive for us.' Not only that—guess what? They can't even get the fertiliser. If we don't have the fuel, we don't have the fertiliser.

They don't know whether they're going to put a crop in, whether they'll actually be able to harvest that crop. They don't know the cost to them that's going to be involved. If the farming sector goes down, the whole community goes down—money to that area.

This is the situation we're in now. All these safeguarding mechanisms, environmental protection agencies—we have the fuel; we have the resources in this nation. It has been shut down by this Labor Party, backed totally by the Greens all the time to shut it down.

We don't have the resources. We've lost our industries and manufacturing. The government has given $1 billion to Snowy Hydro to pay for the electricity for Tomago to keep them operating.

You're backing this all the time. Projects that you've brought in destroyed our industries and manufacturing. Because of your electricity, 47,000 small businesses have gone under.

And I'll tell the people now: you might think that this war that's happening now over in the Middle East with Iran—be prepared for what's going to happen, because China have said they are going to invade Taiwan. They want Taiwan next year. If you think this is the start of it, it's not.

It's going to get worse than that, because a lot of our imports come from China. If you're talking about fuel and energy now—start going after our own fuel here in this nation. Be self-sufficient.

Start up the industries and manufacturing. If China invades Taiwan, we're going to be in one hell of a mess. We import $300 billion worth of product from there.

That is going to be worse. We will be on our knees. I've been speaking against globalisation since 1996.

We don't have vision for this country. You're shutting it down, and that's why the people are living in poverty in this nation. It is absolutely disgusting—what you have done.

And you're to blame for it; the Greens are to blame for it. You have not done what is in the best interests of this nation. (Time expired)