Pauline Hanson Urges Government to Reject “The Great Reset”

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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has warned of devastating consequences if Australia adopts the World Economic Forum’s plans for a “great reset” across the globe.

The World Economic Forum is urging a “revamp of all aspects of our societies and economies” in response to the Covid-19 recession in the areas of education, social contracts and working conditions.

“To use the pandemic as an excuse to overturn lives, push control agendas, and meddle in social systems in countries across the world is totally unacceptable,” Senator Hanson said.

“This so-called reset is absolute rubbish and we should make a stand to play no part in it, to protect Australians and our way of life.”

In a Motion to the Senate, Senator Hanson will ask the Parliament to note that adopting the policies would devastate “the economic wellbeing and individual freedoms of Australians”.

Senator Hanson’s motion also asks the Senate to vote on whether the Australian Government should boycott all World Economic Forum events in protest over the Great Reset agenda.

The World Economic Forum claimed the drastic measure is needed to counteract social and economic problems caused by Covid-19 and avoid what it claimed would be the “worst depression since the 1930s”.

“Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a ‘Great Reset’ of capitalism,” the World Economic Forum says on its website.

The World Economic Forum is a non-profit foundation based in Geneva, whose members include world leaders, billionaires, business executives and celebrities. Members include Prince Charles, Al Gore, Greta Thunberg, along with senior executives of the United Nations, the European Central Bank, the OECD, the IMF, Greenpeace and WWF.

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Flawed Jobmaker falls short

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SENATOR PAULINE HANSON – SPEECH TRANSCRIPT

The JobMaker scheme has not been properly thought through. It has too many flaws to successfully entice businesses into hiring extra employees and help rebuild the employment sector post COVID-19. This pandemic induced recession is an extraordinary once-in-100-year event that has brought Australia and much of the world to its financial knees, and it needs something special to turn it around. JobMaker falls short.

The Senate might recall that on 24 February I was the first member of the Senate to question why the Morrison government allowed Australian universities to put profits before the health and security of this nation. Why I asked that series of questions was that a handful of universities here in Australia were circumventing international border closures unnecessarily and further spreading cases of the virus. It was a precursor to the troubles we would face as a nation due to the virus—in particular, the crumbling of the workforce. It was always going to require significant support from government to help trigger businesses to rebuild Australia’s employment sector.

JobKeeper may have helped keep the heads of individuals above water, but it hasn’t helped in any way to help businesses restore employment numbers. JobMaker, which is the next stopgap measure, also won’t fix it. JobMaker offers little genuine financial incentive to business owners who are struggling to stay afloat. Just like many government programs, it was announced with much fanfare, but when it is truly analysed it doesn’t really do much to help. Government seem to prioritise getting positive publicity rather than actually solving the problem they claim to be solving. The money that has been thrown at JobKeeper and now proposed for JobMaker is wasted money that might be good for the short term, but in the long term it must be paid back with interest, with nothing long term to show for it.

The $4 billion initially earmarked for JobMaker would be better spent on building infrastructure that would not only create jobs during construction but generate ongoing income for future generations. The modernised Bradfield Scheme, which I have highlighted for two decades, is the type of infrastructure project that could make a massive positive difference to the economy. It will pay for itself and then also generate much-needed ongoing income for Australia. It could irrigate such large parts of Central Queensland that it could become a food bowl not only for Australia but for the rest of the world. It’s a shame the Queensland Labor government doesn’t take this project seriously. It needs the federal government to make it a priority project in the national interest to get it off the ground.

Another infrastructure scheme worth analysing is Project Iron Boomerang, which would see the construction of steel smelters near the coalfields of Central Queensland and near the iron ore mines of Western Australia, with the two areas connected by rail. Coal and iron ore could be easily freighted between the two. It would mean we could process our iron ore to produce all Australian steel requirements here rather than exporting raw materials to China and then importing steel at great cost. We could then export to other countries. It would generate $72 billion in income per year, plus $21 billion in tax revenues annually, and create an estimated 75,000 jobs.

These two projects would help pay off Australia’s debt and help the economy to recover. It’s disappointing that projects like these two and others are not given serious consideration, yet debt-creating handout schemes are jumped at with enthusiastic fervour. The government would much rather throw borrowed money at welfare schemes that might put smiles on people’s faces but will have minimal long-term benefit. It fails to mention that all that money will also need to be paid back courtesy of the very people who receive the handouts: the taxpayers.

Rather than providing support that is genuinely helpful, the financial offerings under JobMaker are relatively small and largely dependent on the courage of the business owners themselves to take a leap of faith to hire new workers. This is a big ask at a time when we’re still in a significant recession and those businesses are struggling to survive. I have mentioned previously that the $4 billion to set up the JobMaker hiring credit scheme could instead go towards helping the states to raise the payroll tax threshold, which would support businesses and business growth across the board.

JobMaker also comes with administrative headaches for businesses, which are required to report quarterly to government to affirm their ongoing eligibility for the credits. A lot can change in business in three months. To be eligible, they need to prove an increase in total employee numbers. It makes it a worry for employers who fear the unexpected loss of a staff member or two could see them lose their entitlement to that support. The reality hanging over their heads would create more unwanted uncertainty in a year that has already been plagued with considerable uncertainty. On top of that, the wage credits are paid to the businesses quarterly, potentially adding to the administrative challenges and reducing the attractiveness of the scheme.

JobMaker supports two sectors of the workforce: those aged 16 to 29 and those aged 30 to 35. Jobseekers of other ages are therefore overlooked and disadvantaged, including those who might be a little older but who have considerable expertise and still much to offer. As I pointed out when the scheme was first announced, it is discriminatory towards school leavers and older workers, even possibly breaching age-discrimination laws. While federal laws like the Fair Work Act 2009 outlaw age discrimination, some state laws allow special exemptions that aim to lift those sectors of society that are disadvantaged. So the murkiness of JobMaker gets even murkier.

It was hoped that JobMaker would encourage the creation of 450,000 new jobs, but Treasury itself has downgraded that expectation to more like 45,000. Experts from the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia, COSBOA, believe the dollars on offer through the scheme are not high enough for businesses to offset the costs and risks of hiring more employees. At $200 for a new worker aged 16 to 29 and $100 for someone aged 30 to 35, the employer who takes up these incentives still needs to find the bulk of the new employee’s weekly wages. To commit to finding that extra money upfront each week is daunting for many business owners, many of whom are in survival mode due to more than six months of hardship. As I said earlier, the credits are paid quarterly, so they are forced to pay full wages upfront and wait months for the credits to be reimbursed—a further disincentive. Many businesses are still finding their feet and they remain uncertain of what the future will bring. They will obviously baulk at the idea of taking on the costs that come with additional employees. Committing to hiring additional staff members means the business owner is also committing to finding hundreds more dollars in income to make up the full wages. If business growth were that easy, he or she would have hired without the need for a wage subsidy.

JobMaker would be more likely to interest employers if their business had entered a growth phase, but many small and medium businesses today are in a survival phase. It is my concern that JobMaker would encourage the loss of full-time jobs and reduce job security. JobMaker encourages the subsequent casualisation of any new roles. The $200 payment requires a new employee to work a minimum of 20 hours, so it makes sense that an employer might think to employ two workers, each working 20 hours, to qualify for two payments. This would better subsidise an employer than employing someone in a full-time equivalent position. This reduces the demands on the employer, but, unfortunately, the workers miss out on full-time work and the employment sector generally suffers.

Governments of both colours have always believed wrongly that small-business owners live the high life. The reality is that most small-business owners work the longest hours of all their staff, often doing paperwork late into the night. They are the first to be in the office in the mornings, and they are the last to get paid after invoices and overheads are taken care of. As we know, there are many businesses across this country crying out for workers. But, because of the decisions made by this government to make welfare so lucrative, there are not many people willing to take up these jobs. JobSeeker has made it easy for Australians to live comfortably without needing to work. JobMaker has been devised by government to rectify that problem but is unlikely to be successful for the reasons outlined. JobMaker is not a strong enough system to help prise JobSeeker recipients off their couches and back to work. It is throwing bad money after bad money. One Nation will not support it.

The government needs to move away from the damaging handout mentality that is stagnating job growth and building debt. It needs to start thinking about measures that will fire up economic activity and make Australia the powerhouse economy that it can be. The government needs to shift focus to investing in infrastructure projects that will benefit Australians and Australia as a whole for the decades to come.

As I’ve stated in my speech, we won’t be supporting this. I’ve spoken with a lot of small businesses along the way. A lot of businesses are thriving. They’re doing extremely well with COVID. They’ve come out the other end. The trouble is that they don’t want the $100 or $200 that’s given to them. What they want is people to work. The signs are out there. When they’re taking on 13-, 14- and 15-year-olds for work because they can’t get anyone else to work then we have a real problem in this country. I know a lot of people are happy, and, under COVID, we needed to pay people who have lost their jobs and the jobseekers. I understand that. But extending this program out to March next year is not getting these people out of the way of life of sitting and getting paid by the government. That is not getting them to go and apply for these jobs.

My question to Michaelia Cash today was about what the government are going to do about these people who are offered jobs. We have 20,000 people in Cairns and the Hervey Bay in Queensland on JobSeeker, yet the farmers are crying out for about 15,000 workers, and they can’t get anyone. No-one applies for their jobs. If you go to Maranoa or the Darling Downs, there are another 7,000 on JobSeeker, and the farmers can’t get workers to pick the fruit. The farmers are ploughing their crops into the ground because no-one will pick the fruit. Is this how low this country has come—people don’t want to get out to work because it’s too hard? The handouts don’t send out a lot of money. It’s not a lot of money by the time you pay the rent, but the fact is that people here are quite happy to live this lifestyle. They don’t have to get up, get in the car, go to work and travel an hour to work like most other Australians have to do. They’re quite happy to receive that money and live this lifestyle, because they don’t have to be told what to do or work for that money. There is a handout mentality in the third and fourth generations of this nation—a handout mentality of people not working. They feel it’s an entitlement; it’s not. It was set up as a helping hand.

When we bring workers from overseas to pick the fruit in this country, we have a real problem. Both sides of parliament keep giving handouts to buy votes. Once you give the handouts, you can’t take them back. People think they’re entitled to them. Where has the country that I grew up in gone? People have to provide roofs over their own heads, not rely on the government to provide them. It is there for those that need that helping hand. But when we have a generation on welfare payments, we have a real problem. This here is not helping the situation. Businesses don’t want handouts. Businesses want Australian workers.

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Senator Pauline Hanson’s 2020 Budget Response

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Last night the government handed down its budget, a budget which rains down money on Australia like a summer monsoon. Where did the money come from? It is going to be printed in Australia on the Reserve Bank printing presses.  Many people will welcome the short-term financial assistance, but it will be a short-term benefit unless Australia becomes more productive. If we flood the country with billions in cash, printed here in Australia, without at the same time improving productivity the Australian dollar will depreciate against other currencies. A less valuable Australian dollar means overseas goods will be more expensive, including medicines made overseas.

The government has talked about making essential goods in Australia, but there was little in the budget about how it would achieve this goal. I was disappointed there were no nation-building projects on the scale of the Snowy Hydro scheme, because the lack of water is limiting the growth of our primary industries and good jobs for Australians, particularly in regional Queensland and regional Australia. There was no money for a coal-fired power station in Queensland to lower electricity prices. In short, the budget was silent on how Australia will deliver globally competitive water and electricity prices, which are essential for a revival of manufacturing in Australia. Manufacturing jobs are important because they are better paid, tend to be full-time and have a productivity factor of 1.6, which means that every job generates 0.6 of another job.

With money flowing like champagne from a shaken bottle, the government hopes that somehow Australian business will lead to an economic recovery. Australian businesses need relief from unfair competition—from foreign companies that pay little or no tax in Australia. Many Australians would be unaware that rail freight companies are competing directly with foreign owned ships, and they are losing the fight. Time-sensitive freight is carried by road and rail, but the non-time-sensitive freight is now being carried by foreign ships. These foreign ships take jobs from Australians and pay a pitiful amount of tax. They do pay port charges—which end up as profits for the foreign owners of ports. This is called cabotage. The Australian company SCT Logistics provides 1,500 Australians with jobs driving trains, loading containers and managing the arrival and pick up of the freight.

These jobs are now endangered because the government is deaf to the impact of cabotage—moving goods from port to port in Australia, employing foreign crew and paying little or no tax. Some members of the government may be aware of the impact of the go-slow at Australian ports, with containers not moving anywhere and businesses being badly affected. Many of these ports are foreign owned, including the Brisbane and Melbourne ports. How is the government going to stop price gouging by these foreign owned ports once freight increases on the taxpayer funded inland rail line proposed between Melbourne and Brisbane ports? If the government allows foreign shipping to drive rail companies out of business then that freight will be driven to foreign owned Australian ports.

The National Party has in the past two weeks circulated a discussion paper to encourage foreign shipping, to the horror of the rail industry. During the height of the COVID pandemic foreign ships stopped coming to Australia, and rail freight increased dramatically. What is the government’s plan if there are no rail businesses to move the freight in and out of the ports?

I will now turn to the government’s heavily marketed, gas led economic strategy. In the budget just $52.9 million is set aside to help unlock Australia’s vast onshore gas reserves. We don’t need any more gas. We have enough gas off the west coast of Australia for a thousand years, and we are currently exporting it to competitors in China, Japan and South Korea. The problem is that this gas is in the hands of foreign gas giants, who export the gas on long-term contracts. The Australian owned and listed Woodside offered to provide chilled gas to the east coast a while ago. It would have required the building of a $250 million regassing plant in each state, but the government did not take up that offer, because it wants to buy jobs at huge expense through fracking in Queensland. So here we are getting none of our gas from the west coast, where it’s cheap. Instead, our west coast gas is earning a handful of foreign owned companies $50 billion a year through exports to our competitors. Exporting Australian gas is highly profitable for these foreign companies because they do not pay for the gas, nor do they pay income tax on the profits made from selling the gas. Government policy means we do not benefit from our west coast gas reserves but reward the foreign owned gas companies with $325 billion in tax credits. It is a stupid policy. The government needs to explain why Australia is the only large gas exporter in the world where the domestic price is higher than the international price.

Foreign investment in our oil and gas has made economic indicators like exports and GDP look good, but foreign ownership of our west coast gas reserves has done next to nothing for jobs, wages or corporate income tax collection. The Reserve Bank told me that if Australians want to benefit from trillions of dollars of natural gas off the coast of Western Australia they need to get a job in the sector or buy shares in oil and gas giants with names like Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and ConocoPhillips.

What stops the government changing the law so that Australians benefit from the vast reserves of natural gas in Commonwealth waters off the coast of Western Australia? It is the fear of arbitration in foreign tribunals under provisions in free trade agreements, known as investor state dispute settlement provisions, or ISDS provisions. These fears are justified, because in 2011 Philip Morris took the government to a foreign tribunal claiming compensation in connection with the tobacco plain-packaging laws. The Productivity Commission told the government to avoid ISDS provisions because they give foreign investors greater rights than those enjoyed by Australian investors, but the government rejected the advice, accepting ISDS provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP-11. New Zealand is a signatory to TPP-11, but it avoided ISDS provisions through side letters. Australia could have done the same—again, stupid.

In 2018, One Nation voted against the enabling legislation for TPP-11, but our votes made no difference because Labor voted with the government. Instead of fixing weak laws, the government finds itself pinned to the ground by multinationals whose knees are pressed on the government’s neck. In this position of weakness, the government has decided not to take on the west coast gas cartel but has instead proposed a gas led strategy based on new gas production in Queensland.

This strategy involves the government encouraging fracking of the gas on prime agricultural land; guaranteeing new production through ‘take or pay’ multiyear contracts; and lumping east coast gas users with high prices.

The government must stop picking winners and subsidising electricity generation—first solar, then wind and now gas. Government should get out of the way and let these market players compete against each other so we get the lowest electricity prices. Government interference in the markets always ends badly. In this case, it has left Australia with globally uncompetitive energy prices which will kill off the manufacturing strategy and jobs throughout the economy. If the government persists with guaranteeing the gas industry in Queensland then we are doomed to high gas prices and lower living standards. With gas demand falling since 2014, it is inevitable under multiyear ‘take or pay’ contracts that the taxpayers of the future will pay for gas which is not needed, just as the Northern Territory pays for gas it does not need from the Blacktip project.

Essential services like water, gas, electricity and telecommunications should be in the government’s hands, because it is clear that the government is a hopeless regulator. The government must provide a level playing field if Australian businesses are to have a chance of growing the economy and providing prosperity to Australia. Being timid will not get us there.

We must reform the foreign investment regime if Australia is to remain free to determine its own future. As I’ve said, there was nothing in the budget to actually encourage Australian industries and manufacturing. We are competing on a world stage, and our free trade agreements are destroying, and have destroyed, our industries and manufacturing. It’s a shame that the government, with COVID-19, got out there and said we need to change our industries and manufacturing productivity here in Australia but they showed nothing of it in the budget.

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Senator Hanson Responds To The 2020 Budget

Time For A Minister For Men

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STATEMENT FROM SENATOR PAULINE HANSON

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, One Nation’s Family Law Inquiry has continued with weekly evidence heard by the Joint Standing Committee.

The inquiry has attracted a record number of submissions from the public and following more than six months of evidence from individuals and organisations, I’m of the firm view that it’s time that the Federal Government appointed a Minister for Men.

For the feminists reading this, I’ll give you a moment to grab a bucket and bottle of mouthwash.

Political parties have long called for equality across both genders, but only a Minister for Women exists across all levels of government.

The Federal Governments Minister for Women works across government to deliver policies and programmes to advance the lives of Australian women.

But as we focus on strengthening women’s economic security, their involvement in leadership positions, and ensure that women and their children are safe from violence, the plight of Australian boys and men is on the decline.

In a study reported in 2019, for every 100 girls or women who die on the job, 1294 men die.

For every 100 girls or women who are expelled from schools, there are 291 boys.

The morbidity rate of men aged 25 to 34 years old is 132% higher than women. That equates to 100 women for every 234 men.

Homelessness and unsheltered rates for boys and men are 142% higher than women.

For every 100 girls in public schools classified as having emotional disturbance, there are 355 boys.

And for every 100 women in adult correctional facilities, there are 1000 men.

When it comes to educational, behavioural, and mental health outcomes, boys and men are seriously left disadvantaged.

On the subject of alcohol, drug addiction, overdoses, suicide, murder, violent crimes, and incarceration, boys and men are again overwhelmingly disadvantaged.

As a mother of three boys and one girl, this raises significant concern for my own children, let alone my young grandchildren.

If we truly want equality in society, it’s time to drop the hardline feminist attack on men and start treating each other with the same level support, based on need.

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eCigarettes and Nicotine prescriptions

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The Government’s introduction of further restrictions to access to nicotine for eCigarettes doesn’t make sense healthwise and financially.

No other country has a similar prescription model for nicotine for vaping.

Approximately 500,000 Australians choose to vape as it is healthier than ordinary smoking and seen as a step to weaning themselves off smoking altogether.

Research has shown that increased regulation and inconvenience to accessing nicotine for eCigarettes may push ex-smokers back to cigarettes and vapers toward the nicotine black market.

Requiring a doctor’s prescription to access nicotine for eCigarettes increases costs for the consumer and also places a further burden on the health system through Medicare and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

For example, if vapers attend four GP visits annually to acquire prescriptions, the taxpayer will be funding two million visits. Also, as prescription medicines are GST free, the Government will lose further revenue with this model.

The decision to tighten regulation also is questionable in that similar prescriptions are not required for nicotine patches, nasal sprays and nicotine gum.

It is also clear that those Australians who least can afford it will bear the additional costs of the latest restrictions.

One Nation has long supported the legalisation of vaping as an option to reduce harmful smoking.

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One Nation Gets Green-Light For New Multi-Purpose Rocky Stadium

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One Nation’s Torin O’Brien, Senator Pauline Hanson and Wade Rothery delivering $23,000,000 for new Rockhampton Stadium development

ONE NATION leader Pauline Hanson has secured $23 million from the federal government that will green-light the long-awaited Rocky Stadium.

The multi-purpose venue will accommodate up to 16,000 visitors with 8,500 permanent and 7,500 temporary seating, as well as a concourse area to host functions for up to 650 guests.

The construction of the stadium will elevate the Rocky Sports Club to a standard capable of hosting major sporting events, national and state carnivals, and international entertainment.

Senator Hanson said, “This has taken almost two years to get the funding across the line, but following a dinner with the Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann last September, the project has been on their radar and I haven’t let up.”

“When Gavin first showed me the plans in March 2019, I could see how Rockhampton and the whole of Central Queensland would benefit.”

The stadium will draw on a population in excess of 800,000 within a three and a half-hour drive radius and help draw musicians who have previously overlooked the region.

“We know Elton John overlooked Rockhampton a few years ago because there wasn’t the capacity to host a suitable crowd size, but artists like him and others will have no excuse now.”

The facility will also host Beef Australia events that are held every three years in Rockhampton and attract more than 100,000 visitors to the region.

Senator Hanson said, “It has helped to have Michelle Landry come on board earlier this year and I’m confident she too will be very pleased to see Rockhampton and Capricornia benefit from this major investment.”

Senator Hanson will present a cheque at the official announcement Monday morning at the Rocky Sports Club.

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English language is vital for everyday life, and survival

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English is Australia’s official language.

Major publications, street signs, important documents and TV broadcasts, as examples, are in English. Conversations we have in the street and in business are in the vast majority conducted in English. Most importantly, emergency information is also mostly published in English.

It is undeniable that without competence in the English language, it is difficult to engage successfully and efficiently in everyday life in Australia. And, as the pandemic has revealed, shortcomings in any system manifest in heightened complications during an emergency.

Poor English skills in Melbourne meant pandemic warnings and directions were not properly followed, which helped the virus sweep through entire multicultural neighbourhoods. I was called racist and sacked from a TV role for drawing attention to this fact.

My concerns about migrants and refugees turning their backs on the English language have been raised this week by several others – including Acting Immigration and Multicultural Affairs Minister Alan Tudge.

The Government now also admits language barriers helped the spread of the virus. It also notes that poor English skills can foster the spread of foreign propaganda – especially if residents are reliant on a foreign language.

Tudge revealed that very few new arrivals take advantage of the free English lessons provided by the Government’s Adult Migrant English Program.

In 2006, there were 560,000 residents who didn’t know effective English. Since then, that number has almost doubled to approximately 1-million residents. That equates to one in 25 Australian residents who can’t speak English.

Tudge thinks expanding the English lessons from 510 hours over five years, currently costing taxpayers $1-billion, to unlimited lessons over an unlimited time frame will improve overall English efficiency. If new migrants won’t access at least two hours of taxpayer-funded lessons over five years, why would they commit to a longer time frame or more hours? This is the problem.

It is not the taxpayer’s responsibility to pay for them to learn English. If they chose to come to Australia, they must learn the language at their expense or otherwise find another country to live, where they can communicate.

Poor English proficiency hinders an individual’s ability to make informed voting decisions in elections. It makes someone difficult to employ and potentially locks them into receiving welfare payments. Some learner driver programs allow for people to gain their licence in their own language, which can cause problems once they venture onto the roads.

Most countries have strict language proficiency requirements, but Australia lags behind.  No English proficiency should mean no citizenship or permanent residency.

In July, I said the pandemic has revealed that failure to interact in Australian culture and learn English can in fact prove fatal. Many reject our culture and common language, hence not understanding the pandemic safety message and now we see the consequences.

I also note that Governments of all persuasions have enabled this problem through multi-lingual publications. They have failed for years to genuinely promote community interaction and the need for English language proficiency.

The lesson from the pandemic is that Government needs to ramp up its expectations of all new arrivals to learn our national language – for the benefit and safety of the individual and for society as a whole.

Ignoring or denying a problem like this won’t make it go away.  In fact, unless it is fixed, it will almost certainly raise its head again at some point with equal or even bigger consequences.

Senator Pauline Hanson
Leader of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation

Pauline Hanson ramps up One Nation’s efforts to protect children from indoctrination

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One Nation has continued to ramp up its suite of policies that protect children, including protection from gender fluidity indoctrination and overly-sexualised school curriculums.

The assurances come as Parliament debated Senator Pauline Hanson’s Private Senator’s Bill that aims to give parents legal rights to protect their children from indoctrination at school.

“We are living in a social climate where our children are bombarded by so many influences, not all of them healthy, and it’s impossible to monitor everything, so this Bill gives parents more power to protect their children from what they feel is damaging curriculum,” Senator Hanson said.

“This Bill gives parents the right to challenge the teaching of things like gender fluidity and realignment theory, so-called safe sexting and man-made global warming, and force schools to also present students with opposing beliefs and theories.

“Educators argue there is no need for legislation to protect children from indoctrination, because school children can use their critical thinking skills. That is a cop out, because students are no match for an adult using their positional power to instruct.

“Parents need to have faith that their children are well educated, encouraged to do research for themselves, and are not being indoctrinated by propaganda or controversial views.”

It’s the latest in One Nation initiatives aimed at restoring protections for children and their education.

In Queensland, One Nation has announced an Education Policy that, along with prioritising curriculum to the foundations of English, maths and science, also removes controversial overly-sexualised sex education.

Link: https://www.qldonenation.org.au/education

In New South Wales, One Nation leader Mark Latham has tabled a Private Members Bill that recognises parental responsibility for their children’s moral and ethical development and their social and political values, including understanding personal identity. The Bill also prohibits the teaching of gender fluidity.

Weblink to the Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/bills/Pages/bill-details.aspx?pk=3776

Link to full speech transcript: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansards%2F9d240fa9-ef9a-4ac9-ae29-3090a8cdcd5e%2F0134%22

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Labor Attacks Queensland Jobs

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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has reiterated her strong support for a new coal-fired power station at Collinsville.

Senator Hanson’s support comes as New South Wales Labor Senator Jenny McAllister pushes for a feasibility study into the power station be scrapped, a move backed by Labor and the Greens.

JOB KILLERS: Labor Leader Anthony Albanese And Labor Premier Annastcia Palaszczuk

“I stand by my previous statements that we need another coal-fired power station in North Queensland,” Senator Hanson said.

“That’s what the rest of the world is looking to do. They realise that renewable energy will not generate the reliable power required to run our businesses and power our homes at a reasonable cost.”

Senator McAllister has a disallowance motion listed for today, calling for a feasibility study into the Collinsville power station to be cancelled.

“Senator McAllister needs to keep her bloody nose out of it. She has no understanding of the high prices the people of North Queensland pay for their electricity. She hasn’t got a clue,” Senator Hanson said.

“This is more proof that Labor puts climate alarmism ahead of affordable energy, manufacturing and jobs.

“I won’t be supporting her motion, no way in the world.”

The comments follow Senator Hanson’s and One Nation’s strong support for coal-powered electricity, which was again made clear in February. 

See media release here: https://www.senatorhanson.com.au/2020/02/10/coal-confusion-splits-shaky-coalition-one-nation-strong-on-fossil-fuels/

and Sky News interview here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1090541527955401

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One Nation promotes hope for Qld, not Labor’s fear and suppression

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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is promoting election policies that will bring hope to Queenslanders, in direct contrast to the ongoing fear, control and confusion being pushed daily by Labor.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson commented that Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk had played Queensland voters well with the “Covid-19 fear card”, promoting submission and hopelessness, but Senator Hanson added that is not what Queenslanders need.

“All you get from Labor is fear, fear and more fear, with the aim that people will be terrified into voting them back in, but that is no help to Queenslanders; One Nation has policies that promote positive changes and hope for a better future,” Senator Hanson said.

“One Nation wants to support and lift up Queenslanders, encourage business and employment creation, and restore security and safety, which is the opposite of fearing them into confusion and submission like Labor is doing.

“One Nation wants a positive future, starting now with our positive hopeful policies.”

One Nation has announced the following policies:

  • An Education Policy that brings hope to children’s futures by prioritising solid learning in English, maths and science and removing controversial sexualised lessons.
  • A Youth Justice policy that firmly acknowledge the causes of crime and works with community leaders to bring correction and redirection to young offenders and hope to communities.
  • A Law and Order policy that recognises the failures of the soft policing and lax courts, to give Queenslanders hope for safer communities.
  • A Right to Life policy that understands the sanctity of life and delivers support and hope for those struggling with difficult personal and health needs.
  • A commitment to a modernised Bradfield Scheme to capture and pipe water from high rainfall North Queensland to dry farmlands in central and western Queensland, bringing hope and prosperity for future generations.
  • More positive policies to come to deliver optimism for better lives for all Queenslanders.

“Fear is controlling, but One Nation’s policies are liberating and will allow people to fulfil their full potential and help build a better Queensland, which will benefit everyone,” Senator Hanson said.    

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