STATEMENTS BY SENATORS

Senator FARUQI (New South Wales—Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (13:35): Last week we saw on the media platform one of the most hateful, disgusting and cruel addresses that I have ever seen. It was a dystopian vision of Australia from Senator Hanson—mean, cruel and selfish, where neighbour turns against neighbour, where women's right to choose is wound back, where workers' wages plunge and bosses hold all the cards and where we fight each other for the scraps dropped from above by billionaires pulling the strings.

That is One Nation's Australia. For nearly three decades, they have been running the same grift, sowing division and fuelling bigotry and racism while selling out working people to their wealthy donors. It is a hell of a business model.

The target has shifted over time, now centred on Muslims, but the product is always the same. Make no mistake: if you value a multicultural country, its neighbourhoods, its culture and its economy, One Nation wants to take all that away from you and turn us into a small, bleak and bland society, swallowing up our richness and vibrancy. Also, make no mistake that the conditions for the far right to flourish have been provided courtesy of Labor, who have wasted their majority government.

Failing to make people's lives better, they have instead been dog whistling and scapegoating migrants. One Nation is not an anti-establishment party; they are billionaire-funded grifters. One Nation is not just another political party; they are a racist movement dressed up in electoral clothing.

I have spent a decade taking them on in parliament, in the streets, in the courts. I'm not done yet.