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Senator HANSON (Queensland—Leader of One Nation) (15:29): I asked a question today of Labor about immigration to the country and the minister said, 'Oh, we're doing a great job. We're actually reducing the immigration by 45 per cent.' Well, you're the ones that actually caused the problem in the first place. You had the highest immigration coming to this country between 2022 and 2023—739,000 people.

Take out those that will leave the country—500,000. Then you're saying: 'Oh, we're doing the right thing by you. We're dropping it by 45 per cent.' Well, isn't it funny what a spin that is!

It's like the dodgy discount supermarkets when they double the price and then claim that they've discounted it. What you've done is cause the problems in this country by mass migration. You've allowed the people into Australia.

For the people out there watching this or listening: it would equate over the period of time to 1,375 people a day coming into this country—at the high point, even 1,800 a day coming into the country—created by Labor mass migration. They can't control their spending or their GDP; therefore, they're allowing mass migration to come in to boost up the GDP productivity.

It's caused the problem of fewer homes for people to be able to move into for shelter. We've got over 130,000 people that are homeless in this country—living in tents, caravans and cars, couch surfing—because of the Labor Party. You caused the problem in this country because you can't control your spending.

You have to bring in more people in the country to prop it up. So what we have is, after departures like I said, 1.4 million people that you've brought into the country. As I said, you've got about 250,000 people in Hobart.

So we're talking about 1.4 million. We're talking about cities—Hobart how many times over? That's the number of people you've brought into the country.

And there are already three million temporary visa holders in the country right now—over three million. You've just destroyed this nation with the number of people that you've allowed in, and you've taken absolutely no notice of it for the past more than three years you've been in government. Now you're going to face an election in about 1½ years time.

Now you're saying: 'Oh, look how good we are. We've pulled it back 45 per cent.' You've still got it at 301,000. You've said you're going to reduce it to 225,000 by 2027-28.

It is not going to solve the problem that we have now. People have been screaming out for a reduction in immigration. You turned a blind eye to it.

You're not interested. You've actually—because you know damn well. You're relying on that.

You've destroyed industries and small business. Under your government, you've lost 50,000 small businesses; they've gone insolvent. Over 1,400 industries and manufacturers are gone under your government.

So you know damn well there's no investment in Australia. We are economically so unstable that you have to bring in migration to prop this up. With everything that you've touched, you've destroyed this nation.

I hear other people saying that I'm divisive. I want to pull this country together. I want people to be with success—a fair day's pay for a fair day's work in our nation.

We need to increase our industries' manufacturing and give our small businesses the helping hand they need. Stop cutting the guts out of them with the regulation rules that you've applied to them. It takes years to get anything to happen in Australia.

Cut that all back so we get compliance and they can go ahead and do what they need to do in a matter of months not years. Your mass migration has been absolutely farcical. Bringing in those people in from Gaza is another thing.

They weren't vetted—24 hours to vet them. Then you actually had the ISIS brides. That's again another lie to the Australian people that you knew nothing about.

They found 150 documents over there to say that you didn't know what was going on. All we get out of this government—I've started the Fire the Liar campaign. That's what I've said: 'Fire the liar.' This current government needs to go.

You cannot be straight with the Australian people. You lie about everything that you do with housing, investment, industries, manufacturing, climate change, even the wind turbines, solar panels and everything. You are destroying this nation.

Question agreed to.