STATEMENTS BY SENATORS

Senator WHITEAKER (Western Australia) (13:44): Well, well—Senator Hanson and One Nation have shown us their true colours yet again. Apparently, it wasn't enough for Senator Hanson to come after paid parental leave. It wasn't enough for Senator Hanson to come after early childhood educators.

It wasn't enough for Senator Hanson to come after penalty rates. Now, Senator Hanson and One Nation are coming after hardworking Australians' superannuation accounts too. And what do the Liberal Party have to say about that?

What do they have to say on superannuation? Well, on Senator Bragg's big day out just last week, he said that superannuation is—I think he called it 'a strange experiment'. Senator Hume this morning said that of course they would consider their policy, but that the most important thing for Australians in their retirement is owning their own home.

It's back to the old days of the coalition, whose only solution to homeownership is asking Australians to raid their super accounts because it has no plan to help Australians get into their own home. Well, the Labor Party says that you can have both. You can have security in retirement because Labor created superannuation.

We will always protect it. While One Nation, the Liberal Party and the National Party are teaming up to come after Australian superannuation, Labor says, 'Absolutely not.' We believe every Australian deserves security in their retirement, and superannuation is how we make sure that happens.