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Senator ROBERTS (Queensland) (18:18): I was elected in 2016 in May-July. I started in July. I've had more than 10 years since I first joined the Senate.

I've been elected once and re-elected twice. In that 10 years, I've learnt that every major problem in this country is due to the uniparty. Your policies on energy, your policies on climate fraud, your policies on water—disgraceful.

You've done everything you can to hammer workers into subservience. You're both guilty of mass immigration. Australia has fallen from having the No. 1 highest per capita income in the world a hundred or so years ago to now being headed out the back door.

We're heading for 20th thanks to you lot. We are still the richest nation in the world for resources per capita, yet now we're dependent on communist dictatorships and the unstable government for much of what we need in this country. Our manufacturing has been shot, thanks to you lot, so we're now dependent.

We must have new capability restored within our borders—we drill for oil or gas within our borders, process it, refine it, transport it, and put it in bowsers, then into cars, trucks and tractors, with the whole process in our country. What's the matter? You have abandoned that.

You've both caused it. We need the same for fertiliser. We need to restore Australia.

We have the world's highest per capita resources, yet we're heading down the road to poverty, thanks to you lot. We need to get the data on why this has happened. We need to get the data on what we need.

We need to get the facts. That's why I support this inquiry that Senator Bell has had the courage to put forward.