MEDIA RELEASE

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said there should be a two-year time limit on the Jobseeker (formerly Newstart) support payment to ensure Australia “breaks the cycle” of generational welfare dependency.

She says it’s even more important given the nation’s skyrocketing debt due to the Covid-19 shutdowns.

Under Senator Hanson’s plan, those under 50 who haven’t found a job within two years would have the payments suspended for one year. The timeframes would not apply to jobseekers over 50 who historically have more difficulty finding work.

“We have people who are third and fourth generation welfare recipients, who don’t try to find a job and are a drain on the taxpayer purse, and it’s just not good enough,” Senator Hanson said.

“And we have others who underdress for job interviews because they don’t want to work. They just want to tick the requirements for their payments and they’re quite happy to live in a share house, never working, bumming around, and living off our hardworking taxpayers.

“Welfare was only ever meant to be a support system between jobs, it was never meant to be a way of life, but too many Australians have made it a life choice to the detriment of the nation, our productivity and our economy.”

Senator Hanson noted there was no such “blank cheque” afforded Australia’s farmers, who are allowed support payments for “four years in each specified 10-year period”.

“Remember, our farmers are still working, many of them are working and going backwards financially, while they battle drought and rising production costs to put food on our tables; if anyone deserves support payments, they do.”

Senator Hanson said if it was good enough to put a time limit on support for struggling farmers, then it was reasonable to introduce similar measures for Jobseeker recipients.

“If you’re under 50, and you can’t find any sort of job in two years, then your payment should be suspended for one year, simple as that. You can reapply when the year is up,” Senator Hanson said.

“All the bleeding hearts who want us to happily throw around Government money like confetti are ignorant of our responsibility to maintain and strengthen the economy – especially after what the Covid-19 crisis has taught us.

“To keep handing over welfare money with no limitation is disrespectful to the taxpayers of this nation who are going out and working hard to pay for our welfare system.”

END

STATEMENT

I’m not surprised that I’ve copped flak from the arrogant lefties for my suggestion that Australia should cancel its funding to that useless monstrosity, the World Health Organisation.

Well, they can whinge all they want but I won’t change my position. In fact, I’ll add further to my criticism by calling for the sacking of the Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus along with his equally-inept United Nations buddy, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

If they can’t do these important jobs satisfactorily, then they should be sacked. Simple.

Misinformation and flawed advice from WHO in this China virus crisis have magnified the problem and caused untold unnecessary deaths. It’s inexcusable from an organisation responsible for the health needs of billions of global citizens and gets more than $4-billion in international funding.

As I have said since 1996, the UN is an organisation whose executives seem to do nothing but hold out their hands for money, buy luxury cars, and fly first class around the world. Nothing has changed in this dodgy organisation; in fact, it’s getting worse!

It’s not the first time WHO has stuffed up on such a grand scale. When the Ebola outbreak occurred in Africa in 2013, it took five months to declare an emergency. By then, the disease had spread through several countries and taken many thousands of lives.

It was also WHO that supported the reopening of Wuhan’s wet markets even though Covid-19 continues to cause problems around the world.

Is it smart of Australia to keep handing over millions of dollars as we wait for WHO’s next big failure and massive loss of life? I don’t think so.

WHO was established in 1948 to support and manage initiatives that improve health globally, but it has descended into a farcical, politically-biased and corrupt organisation whose leaders are doing the bidding of dodgy member countries.

WHO today does more harm than good. The millions that Australia contributes annually (about $63m in 2018) should be better spent on initiatives here in Australia that have a direct positive impact for our citizens.

Unfortunately, the incompetence of WHO and its parent the UN is enabled by those who turn a blind eye to the problems – the lefties like Labor and The Greens would rather stick their head in the sand and keep flushing money down the toilet rather than face the facts.

I’ll wait with interest to see how the Liberal and National parties respond to the failures of these organisations.

Let’s actually put Australia first for a change. We should cancel our membership of the UN and the WHO and the time to do it is now!

Senator Pauline Hanson
One Nation Leader

END

MEDIA RELEASE

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has proposed a multi-billion-dollar “Advance Australia Fund” to safeguard jobs and to ensure water and energy security for the country.

Senator Hanson said, “While I commend the Morrison Government on its inclusive approach to the National Cabinet and their capacity to respond to the increasing demand on government support, we must have a way of protecting Australian jobs when this virus is contained and ensure borrowed money is spent on projects the Government and Australian people will get a return on.”

The Advance Australia Fund would provide immediate funding to projects including the Hybrid Bradfield Scheme and taking water from Lake Argyle to feed through to southern regions of Western Australia. The fund would also provide money to build a vital gas pipeline from North-Western Australia’s rich offshore gas fields, to the Eastern states of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria.

The money would also provide trade courses for new apprentices and other vital assets for regional Australia, including storage facilities for food and fuel.

“The Chinese virus has uncovered several vulnerabilities Australia faces and a distressing exposure to job losses because we have focused too heavily on tourism, education and the service industry instead of manufacturing and industry.”

“I understand the need to catch people at a time we are haemorrhaging jobs, but where to after this crisis ends? It pains me to say this, but many businesses will be lost and those looking for work will be forced to make tough decisions on having to move to get a job.”

“The danger with the current stimulus package is that a lot of this money could indirectly flow overseas due to a lack of domestically manufactured products.”

“As politicians, we can create employment that will provide security for many Australian’s who are prepared to work, while building assets that improve and grow the capacity of our nation for the next 100 years or more.”

“I’ve been very strong on building water projects for this nation, and now is the time to activate those schemes.”

END

STATEMENT

When the dust settles, Australia needs a serious rethink of how we progress the growth of our nation and pay back what will likely be one trillion dollars of debt.

The coronavirus may well be the excuse for a global economic collapse, but the course set by consecutive governments and a host of Prime Ministers here in Australia left us teetering on the verge of a recession years ago.

Coronavirus is the final push that has seen Australian markets crash and panic buying begin in our supermarkets.

Australia’s economy is exposed as a result of an over-reliance on Chinese manufacturing and dependence on China as a destination for our food and mineral exports.

Now, it is safe to say, the lives of our citizens are exposed.

By refusing to take the appropriate steps required to prevent the evolution and spread of COVID19 coronavirus, China has put all human life, worldwide at risk.

China must be called out and any attempts to attack or criticise people for referring to COVID19 as a “Chinese virus” should be pushed back on.

In recent history, it has been common to refer to viruses with reference to the area it originated.

For example, MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. To the best of my knowledge, no one was ever called a racist for saying MERS.

And the Spanish Flu was responsible for a global pandemic in 1918, but no one ever suggested the Spanish Flu was an offensive name.

Attempts to hide the fact that COVID19 originated in China, shield China from criticism they rightfully deserve.

The threat of virus transmission from animals to humans caused by Chinese wet markets has been well documented for decades.

Despite this, China has wilfully continued to allow unhygienic practices, known to promote the evolution and spread of deadly diseases and put the lives of billions at risk.

Australia has sanctions against many foreign nations for engaging in activities deemed to be inappropriate. North Korea, Iran, Libya, Syria, Zimbabwe, Russia, and Myanmar are just a few we have taken autonomous sanctions against, let alone those UNSC sanctions we also support.

If a country were actively pursuing the development of a biological weapon that had all the same characteristics of the COVID19 coronavirus, then Australia would likely consider sanctions against this nation.

The same would be true if a nation was knowingly allowing private groups or companies to develop biological weapons of this nature.

As a result of this latest pandemic, it can no longer be argued that China, by allowing deadly viruses to evolve and transmit within its borders, is unaware of the dangers they are subjecting the rest of the world to.

Australia should, therefore, consider strong action against a country actively developing, or assisting in the development of deadly biological viruses.

END