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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is calling for offshore oil and gas giants operating in Australia to fund the Royal Commissions’ recommendations into Aged Care and avoid raising taxes on workers and small businesses.

“Before we ask taxpayers to fund the Royal Commissions’ recommendations through increases to the Medicare Levy, Government should be forcing multinational oil and gas companies to pay their fair share of tax for the resources taken from Commonwealth waters.”

“We are missing out on billions each year because of gutless politicians.”

More than $350 billion in Petroleum Resources Rent Tax (PRRT) credits have been accrued by oil and gas giants including Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell, BHP, and ConocoPhillips.

Senator Hanson said, “It’s likely these companies will pay little to no tax on the gas they take in the future, particularly those off Western Australia.”

“If we want to pay for aged care reform, NDIS, increases to unemployment benefits, and general services provided by Government, we must make multi-national companies pay for the commodities they’re taking from off our coastline.”

“If it’s good enough for the Government to go after tech giants, it’s time to tackle the world’s oil and gas companies.”

“These people are the biggest tax dodgers in the world, and until we do something about tax avoidance by multinationals, Mum and Dad workers will continue to bear the expense through increased taxes.”

Senator Hanson is calling on Prime Minister, Scott Morrison to phase out PRRT tax credits over the next 10 years and create a sovereign wealth fund by implementing a transaction tax on oil and gas companies.

“There’s no excuse why these offshore projects can’t pay a flat tax of between 5% to 10% based on the meters that measure their production.”

“The current arrangement between Government and gas companies is not to the benefit of Australians and needs fixing immediately before gas production doubles over the next 20 years.”

“Every single politician will one day be a patient in an aged care facility. We can either fix the problem now or eventually experience first hand how dire the system has become.”

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Senator Pauline Hanson described the successful passage of her motion to refer matters leading to the standing down of Australia Post CEO, Ms Christine Holgate, to a Senate Committee for inquiry as “a giant step toward achieving some justice for Christine Holgate as well as the 80,000 staff and contractors of Australia Post”.

 “You don’t get to falsely and savagely trash the career of one of the nation’s most successful business leaders for no reason and then get away with it.

“Christine Holgate should never have been made a political pawn – she’s an outstanding human being who’s achieved remarkable results at Australia Post for its stakeholders, 80,000 employees, around 2,900 Licensed Post Offices and who has the support of the unions.

“Her skills, determination and dedication have driven Australia Post to become the envy of its international counterparts.

“Having One Nation’s motion pass today means the Senate can now make a genuine effort to get to the bottom of this whole appalling saga.

“Senator Roberts and I will continue our efforts to ensure Christine Holgate is given the voice she deserves

“Subject to the inquiry’s finding and recommendations, Ms Holgate’s resumption of her duties as CEO is certainly one outcome we can hope for, along with an apology from the Prime Minster and a recanting of his savage comments. ”

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With just 64 days until the Western Australian election, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has informed State leader Colin Tincknell and Mining and Pastoral MLC, Robin Scott that unpredictable travel conditions will prevent her from taking part in the state election campaign.

The decision comes as the Queensland Government informed greater Brisbane residents that the state’s capital, Redlands, Ipswich, Moreton, and surrounding regions will go into lockdown from 6 pm Friday.

The three-day lockdown which was endorsed by Prime Minister Scott Morrison will restrict movement unless for essential reasons including receiving healthcare or support for a vulnerable person, essential shopping within a person’s local area, and exercise in your local neighbourhood.

Senator Hanson said, “I had planned to help Western Australian candidates campaign in January, but those plans have been dashed due to the discovery of the highly infectious UK strain here in Queensland.”

“Could you imagine what the media would write if, for some unforeseen reason, I bought a case of coronavirus to Western Australia? No thanks.”

“We have witnessed interstate travellers forced into hotel quarantine following border closures mid-journey, and I’m afraid Premier Mark McGowan would deem campaigning as non-essential travel and therefore leave me locked up for 14-days.”

The One Nation leader praised the efforts of her parties WA Members in their strong fight to stop Labor’s Gold Tax and crippling Rock Lobster legislation.

“Without Colin Tincknell and Robin Scott, Western Australia’s gold mining industry would have been destroyed and so too the rock lobster industry.”

“They single-handedly put an end to laws that would have devastated two world-renowned industries.”

“I strongly believe Western Australia is better off with One Nation’s influence in the Legislative Council and while Mark McGowan holds a significant prospect of re-election, he mustn’t control both the lower and upper house in WA.”

“Voters may be satisfied with the job Mark McGowan has done keeping COVID levels low in the state, but with a vaccine due to roll out in February, people need to think about the state’s economy post-pandemic.”

“One Nation continues to be the voice of the people because we don’t arrogantly dismiss the issues of grassroots voters.”

“Malcolm Roberts and I have an enormous year ahead of us, particularly in the space of family law and industrial relations.”

Senator Hanson’s Joint Select Committee on Australia’s Family Law System will hand down its final report on February 25, 2021, with the One Nation leader refusing to miss that opportunity.

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Ongoing pressure from One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, backed up by thousands of concerned Australians, resulted in the Government tightening its safeguards against predatory foreign investment.

But Senator Hanson warned the protections need to be bolstered further, so has urged Australians to remain unrelenting in their push for tighter rules, for the sake of the economy and jobs.

In March, Senator Hanson wrote to the Prime Minister and the Treasurer, asking them to stop all predatory foreign investment in the wake of the coronavirus downturn. In response, the Treasurer reduced the threshold for investment assessments by the Foreign Investment Review Board to $0.

The outcome comes as a One Nation prepares to table in the Senate a petition of more than 18,000 signatures from Australians expressing their wishes to stop predatory foreign takeovers.

“Australia is the envy of nations around the world so I don’t blame foreign investors for hovering like vultures, ready to snap up our assets when they come up for sale,” Senator Hanson said.

“This improvement comes only after decades of my warnings, so it shows how important it is to keep highlighting the shortfalls and for all of us to be relentless in demanding protections. We need to remain vigilant into the future to protect our jobs and economy.”

Successive governments have presided over and contributed to weak foreign investment safeguards that have enabled high levels of unchecked investment by foreign governments, corporations and individuals. Unfortunately, Free Trade Agreements with various nations like China, the USA, Japan, Singapore and others, allow them to purchase non-sensitive businesses valued up to $1.19b without FIRB scrutiny.

The One Nation petition comes as China, for example, continues to buy up Australian businesses through its FTA rights while also ramping up bans on coal, copper ore, barley, red wine, timber, sugar and seafood. 

Currently, over 50% of wholesale trade, over 40% of manufacturing, over 35% of mining, and over 25% of electricity businesses in Australia are foreign owned. Senator Hanson warns this level of foreign ownership is dangerous and damaging to Australia’s economy and creates an unacceptable threat to national security.

The petitioners asked the Senate to: “Take immediate steps to protect Australians from the negative effects inflicted on them by the current level of foreign ownership and ensure that the rules, regulations and transparency requirements governing foreign ownership in Australia are significantly strengthened.”

To view the petition post, visit: https://www.onenation.org.au/stop-predatory-foreign-ownership

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