Diesel Exhaust Fluid Shortage Shows Morrison Asleep At The Wheel

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MEDIA RELEASE

10 December 2021

The Morrison Government has been asleep at the wheel in failing to prepare for a looming shortage of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) which threatens the supply of essential goods to Australians households and businesses.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said short-sighted trade policy and an obsession with climate change ideology had led to poor decisions which now threatened to garage more than half of Australia’s fleet of freight vehicles along with mining and farming vehicles.

“DEF is a pollution-reducing additive required by Federal law in most modern diesel engines, including those powering the majority of freight vehicles in Australia along with specialty mining vehicles and farm machinery,” Senator Hanson said.

“A key ingredient of DEF, or ‘AdBlue’ as it is commonly known here, is urea. Urea is also a major component of nitrogen-fixing fertilisers widely used in Australia. We usually source up to 80% of our urea from China, which has recently cut back on exports to shore up its domestic supplies and reduce fertiliser costs.

“Urea is manufactured with natural gas. We have abundant natural gas resources but because the government allows nearly all of it to be exported, Australia’s only manufacturer of urea has announced it will cease production next year because it can’t secure an affordable long-term supply of natural gas. Instead the facility will be used to make hydrogen for Andrew Forrest.

“How short-sighted is this? Relying solely on China for supplies critical to keeping Australia moving and fed is just plain stupid given its appetite for weaponizing trade for political purposes, and potentially dangerous. Enabling the loss of our own capacity to manufacture these critical supplies is equally stupid and dangerous.

“We’ve learned a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic, but some obvious lessons seem to have escaped Scott Morrison: the long-term strategic need for Australia to able to manufacture the products critical to our economy, and the vulnerability of our supply chains.

“The government in its obsession with climate change ideology can throw all the taxpayer money it likes at Andrew Forrest to make hydrogen, but no amount of money is going to convert every Australian truck and tractor to hydrogen in time for this looming DEF shortage.

“At least there will be no shortage of idle trucks in which the Prime Minister can have another nap behind the wheel while Australian households and businesses face high price rises and critical shortages of essential goods, just when our economic recovery from COVID-19 is beginning.”

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Australia speaks: end the pandemic of discrimination

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Media Release

1 December 2021

A petition signed by more than 200,000 Australians calling on Parliament to pass legislation stopping COVID-19 vaccine discrimination was today tabled in the Senate by One Nation.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said the Australian people had spoken in overwhelming numbers in support of her legislation.

“Senators will ignore the growing opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates at their peril,” Senator Hanson said.

“Our petition has collected more than 200,000 signatures in just 22 days. Many who signed it are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. An increasing number of Australians are not buying the false narrative that opposition to vaccine coercion and discrimination is confined to anti-vaccine extremists.

“They understand this is about something far more important: key democratic principles like freedom of speech, individual autonomy and the right to choose our own fate are being torn down by increasingly authoritarian state and territory governments.”

“The cabal which has plotted to block our legislation from referral to a parliamentary inquiry – twice now – have sent a clear message: the Australian people must be silenced and prevented from voicing opposition to vaccine coercion and discrimination.

“The other message is that this cabal of senators – including so-called ‘independents’ on the crossbench – is very frightened about what the Australian people might tell them. They’re afraid that when the people speak, their false narrative that everyone opposed to vaccine coercion and discrimination is anti-vax extremist will be exposed for the lie that it is.

“It’s not the job of the Senate to silence the Australian people. It’s the job of the Senate to listen to the Australian people and do what they tell us. As senators, we’re not dictators; we’re servants. Australians overwhelmingly want the opportunity to express their opposition to vaccine coercion and discrimination to a parliamentary inquiry, and want my legislation passed to protect fundamental principles of Australian democracy.”

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Lambie, Labor, Greens, Patrick and Griff deny Australians their voice

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Media Release

25 November 2021

Senators Jacqui Lambie, Rex Patrick and Sterling Griff colluded with Labor and Green senators today to deny Australians their voice in the most critical debate facing this nation.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson has slammed Opposition and crossbench senators for colluding to prevent her COVID-19 vaccine discrimination legislation from being referred to a parliamentary inquiry which would allow Australians to have their say about mandatory vaccination.

“Spear-headed by Penny Wong, these galahs went out of their way to deny Australians a voice and the opportunity to directly tell them and the government precisely what they think about vaccine mandates imposed by state and territory governments,” Senator Hanson said.

“These mandates are getting worse – state and territory governments are coming for the kids next, threatening mandatory vaccination on schoolchildren without their parents’ permission.

“I have to thank Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Coalition for supporting the referral of my bill to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee for an inquiry.

“With their support, the legislation was going to be referred but these senators colluded to stop it. They’ve shown their true colours: they don’t care about Australians’ right to choose, and they’ve worked together to destroy the chance for Australians to express their opposition to mandatory vaccination.”

Senator Hanson warned she was far from finished protecting the right of Australians to make their own choices about their health, and urged people to contact their Federal representatives.

“I’m calling on Australians to put the pressure on their MPs and Senators, and demand this critical legislation be subject to a full and open parliamentary inquiry so they can have their say,” she said.

“A parliamentary inquiry will also allow doctors and other health practitioners – the experts – the opportunity to have their say about mandatory vaccination without fear of losing their registration or jobs.

“This isn’t just about COVID-19 vaccines. This is about something far more important: the fundamental democratic principle of individual rights. I will never stop fighting for the rights of the Australian people to make their own choices.”

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Hanson flags big changes for a fairer child support system

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25 November 2021

Australia’s child support system is broken and requires significant changes to make it fairer, Senator Pauline Hanson told Parliament this week.

The One Nation leader, whose advocacy with the government led to the establishment of a parliamentary inquiry into the Australian family law system, has called for some urgent changes to child support.

“This is a broken system which breaks people,” Senator Hanson said. “As many parents have told the inquiry, and as I myself have experienced, Australia’s child support system is outdated, unfair and unjust.

“It works to compound the hurt, pain and anxiety felt by parents at the breakdown of a relationship. It’s a system which can be weaponised by acrimonious parties, and allow children to be used as pawns in such conflicts.

“It doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve been working towards a fairer system since my election to the Senate five years ago. I’ve had personal experience with it, and the inquiry has heard from many parents some horrific tales of their own experiences.”

Senator Hanson suggested a range of practical measures to be included in the committee’s recommendations, including:

  • assessing net rather than gross incomes;
  • ensuring payments did not leave parents with an income below $27,000 a year;
  • assessing salaries on a 38 hour week;
  • basing child support on the number of children at the time of separation and not on additional children to other partners;
  • assessing residential costs individually;
  • including Family Tax Benefit in assessing incomes;
  • not including Workcover, TPI or superannuation payouts in assessable income; and
  • having child support payments paid to a separate child support account, with the payee held to account for expenditure by Services Australia.

“The fairest approach is to determine payments according to what is needed to raise the children: food, clothing, housing, education and medical care, shared by both parents,” she said.

“Where child access is between 35 and 65 per cent, costs are effectively the same in a lot of cases so there is no real need for child support payments at all – this would take the sting out of a lot of breakups and disputes, save money and time, and let parents spend more time with their kids.”

Senator Hanson said the joint select committee conducting the inquiry should have adopted her proposals in its formal recommendations.

“Instead, in a bid to head off my dissenting report, they’ve just as adopted them as ‘issues raised during the inquiry’,” she said. “I am not appeased, and my dissenting report stands as an indictment on the refusal of the government and opposition to make meaningful changes to a broken child support system.

“Ultimately we all want the best outcomes for all parties involved in these incredibly difficult circumstances: both children and parents. It’s time for a fairer child support system in Australia, and I’m not stopping until we get one.”

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Open Letter To PM and Deputy: Boycott Glasgow Climate Change Conference

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Dear Prime Minister,

Recent statements by a member of your cabinet, committing Australia to a net-zero future by 2050, and additional statements from members of your Liberal/National Coalition calling for further emissions reduction targets of 40 to 45 per cent by 2035 are an alarming admission that the Morrison, Liberal / National Government backs the measures of a United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) to be held in Glasgow this month.

The three fundamental steps outlined in the COP26 include:

  • Accelerating an end to coal; 
  • Further restricting the use of farming land and waterways;
  • and phasing out diesel and petrol engines by 2035.

Australia’s attendance at this year’s UN event will only lend credibility to the irrational debate perpetuated by an unelected, non-governmental, new world order organisation.

Your government’s presence will only motivate additional bureaucratic red-tape through the organisations:

  • 3 x Governing bodies and process management body
  • 2 x Subsidiary bodies
  • 14 x Constituted bodies
  • 5 x UN bodies/agencies and intergovernmental organisations
  • 4 x Ad hoc working groups

COP26 will further undermine Australian jobs, reduce our sovereign capabilities to manufacture, impede our nation’s resources sector, and deprive opportunity for this and future generations to build wealth.

Australian’s loathe the United Nations and their aspiration for a great reset of our nation’s economic independence.

I humbly ask you to boycott Glasgow and send a strong message to the international community that you will uphold your commitments to the Australian people made prior to the 2019 election that you will put jobs, industry and cost of living ahead of climate alarmist policies dictated by the United Nations.

Reject this international think tank, and start listening to the Australian people.

Kind regards,
Senator Pauline Hanson
Leader Of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation


One Nation shines light on JobKeeper accountability and calls for overpayments to be recovered

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2 September 2021

Publicly-listed companies which have received JobKeeper payments will be held to account for their claims under a One Nation amendment to treasury legislation was passed in the Senate today with the support of the government, the Opposition and independent senator Rex Patrick.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said the amendment, requiring listed entities to provide JobKeeper payment information to be published by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), was an important first step towards accountability.

“We want the government held accountable for the poor design of JobKeeper, along with JobKeeper recipients who enriched themselves at taxpayers’ expense,” Senator Hanson said.

“Listed entities will be required to provide a notice to market regulators disclosing the number of individuals for whom JobKeeper was received, the total received, and whether the entity had voluntarily paid any of the money back.

“This information would then be published by ASIC in a consolidated report. Listed entities’ financial details are a matter of public record, so they can be matched with the report to determine if entities have enriched their executives at taxpayers’ expense.”

Senator Hanson said unsuccessful amendments moved by Labor and independent senator Rex Patrick failed to implement real accountability.

“They were transparency measures which didn’t lead to accountability, and One Nation was concerned it was little more than a naming and shaming exercise conscripting the public to put undue pressure on the small businesses which have borne the brunt of lockdowns,” she said.

“It was essentially grandstanding that would not produce any real accountability outcomes, but potentially lead to unintended negative consequences. I challenged Labor to introduce their own amendment to recover JobKeeper overpayments, but they’re too gutless.”

Senator Hanson also called on the government to introduce legislation addressing the poor design of JobKeeper.

“JobKeeper legislation needs to be amended to introduce some retrospectivity and enable the recovery of JobKeeper overpayments,” she said.

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UNESCO reef threat a political exercise in hypocrisy

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1 July 2021

UNESCO’s recent threat to list the Great Barrier Reef as ‘in danger’ serves as a stellar example of much that is wrong with the United Nations experiment and Australia’s capitulation to international climate change ideology.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said the threat from the China-chaired World Heritage Committee body was motivated by petty politics.

“This is an obvious threat which is based on Australia-bashing politics, not on an honest assessment of the state of the Great Barrier Reef,” Senator Hanson said. “The committee hasn’t even bothered to have a look for itself.

“Queensland tourism operators who have skin in the game know the reef is doing just fine. This is a very important industry for Queensland and it must not be sacrificed to the political whims of the unaccountable UN and unaccountable Chinese regime.

“This is China seeking to punish Australia for not towing the communist regime’s line. The hypocrisy of the world’s largest emitter (responsible for around 29% of global emissions) dictating what we must do to address climate change is appalling and should be called out for what it is.

“China is one of the most polluted countries in the world. Its people don’t trust the safety of food produced in China, and recruit buyers in nations like Australia to send our quality produce back there. We’ve all seen the reports of these buyers sweeping up every can of infant formula in our supermarkets, ignoring or evading purchase limits and leaving Australian households short.

“We’ve all seen the reports of China’s surveillance, its interference in our domestic politics, and its attempts to suppress our freedom of speech. We all know it is holding small countries as financial hostages to its insidious ‘belt and road’ scheme. We’ve all seen how China corrupted the World Health Organisation to avoid scrutiny over its culpability for the COVID-19 pandemic. China’s credibility is in the toilet.”

Senator Hanson said it was typical of the UN to allow a nation with such a poor environmental record like China to lead organisations like UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee.

“This is the same unaccountable organisation which put Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya in charge of its human rights commission,” she said. “How can anyone possibly have confidence in the UN when it does things like maintaining the pure fiction that China is still a ‘developing’ nation, giving it all the leniency China requires to keep increasing emissions while other economies are crippled by the billions of dollars wasted to appease climate change zealots.

“We are already spending billions of taxpayer dollars protecting the reef. This threat is a great example of an ideology which carefully picks easy targets like Australia and ignores the true culprits.

“The Morrison Government, the Greens and Labor are on notice: they answer to the Australian people and not unelected, unaccountable international bodies like the UN or UNESCO trying to undermine our national sovereignty. This is our reef and this is our country. Australians – and only Australians – should have a say in how we look after our reef and run our affairs.”

Nationals abandon farmers with lip service to net-zero

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23 June 2021

Climate change ideology continues to divide the Australian Government and put the lifestyle and livelihoods of farmers at risk.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said farmers needed a firm commitment from the Nationals on the prospect of net zero emissions by 2050 that protected their lifestyles and businesses.

“Barnaby Joyce might say the Nationals view this through ‘different eyes’ but with his deputy saying ‘never say never’, farmers are understandably very concerned the Nationals are abandoning farmers to shore up their power in the Coalition,” Senator Hanson said.

“As long as the Coalition, Labor and the Greens continue to pay lip service and waste billions of dollars to placate climate change zealots, Australia will continue to be held hostage by unaccountable climate change ideology.

“This puts our farmers’ lifestyles and livelihoods at risk, along with Australia’s long term food security. The prospect of farmers being paid by taxpayers not to farm in order to meet some arbitrary emissions target decades in the future is appalling, and smacks of the anti-competitive farming subsidies employed by the European Union and the United States to disadvantage more efficient Australian producers.

“One Nation is firmly committed against net zero emissions by 2050. We want farmers doing what they do best – producing the food and fibre which has cemented Australia’s reputation as a leader in agriculture, looking after the land like only they know how, and bringing much needed export dollars into our economy and into rural communities. We need to get out of their way, not tie their hands behind their backs and undermine our future food security.

“The Nationals have failed farmers on water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin. They failed the dairy industry in its crisis. Farmers are looking for effective, decisive leadership and they’re not getting it from the Nationals. Farmers are looking for a firm commitment to protect their lifestyles and livelihoods and they’re not getting it from the Nationals.

“Memories are short. In 2019, Queensland voters sent a clear message by rejecting climate change ideology in favour of jobs and energy security; without this support, the Coalition would not be in government today. The Nationals will ignore this rejection at their peril.”

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ONE NATION SAYS NO TO MORRISON’S INTERSTATE VACCINE PASSPORT

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One Nation Leader and Senator for Queensland, Pauline Hanson, today gave an emphatic “No” to the Prime Minister’s mooted vaccine passport for travel between Australian states.

“This outrageous plan is a gross overstepping of power and typical of his bullying attitude,” said Senator Hanson.

“Floating the idea on national television and trying to have bet each way bringing in the states, shows an appalling lack of leadership by the Prime Minister.

“It could even be seen as fear mongering designed to force people to have the vaccine.

“It confirms just how out of touch Scott Morrison and his government are with the opinions of the overwhelming majority of Australians on this issue.

“I wonder if the Government is going to compensate families whose loved ones have lost their lives or suffered permanent side effects due to the vaccine.

“Let’s be absolutely clear on this. One Nation opposes this Liberal/National vaccine passport push and will work to see it scrapped.”

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SENATOR HANSON SLAMS CANAVAN’S REMARKS ON TOOWOOMBA

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“Matt Canavan shouldn’t be talking Toowoomba down – it’s Australia’s second largest inland city with over 170,000 residents enjoying the great amenities and lifestyle Toowoomba and its surrounds offer,” said Senator Hanson.

“Thanks to the construction of the Wellcamp Airport by the Wagner Corporation – a local Toowoomba business – Toowoomba is now an international aviation gateway to and from Australia. 

“Since the opening of the $1.6 billion Toowoomba Second Range Crossing, driving time to Brisbane has been cut by 40 mins. It’s now faster and easier to get to Brisbane from Toowoomba than it is to get to Sydney  from many of that city’s outer suburbs.

“And the $15 billion inland rail includes a new Gowrie to Helidon section for Toowoomba, including a 6.2km diesel freight tunnel – the largest in the southern hemisphere.

“Instead of bagging Toowoomba’s health facilities on national television, Senator Canavan should have been promoting the fact that the area has three major hospitals. Toowoomba Hospital alone has around 380 doctors and almost 1,400 nurses and handled 6432 overnight admissions in the Dec 20 quarter.

“St Vincent’s Private and St Andrews Private are both significant hospitals that any city would be proud to have, and both have ICU facilities.

“Queensland has the chance to have an international standard quarantine facility built for free by the same group that delivered the local world class international airport.

“But Senator Canavan says ‘no’ and blames it on remoteness and lack of ICU beds – both of which are wrong and misleading. He needs to remember he’s a Senator for the whole of Queensland, not just his small  home patch.

“Toowoomba has easy, fast access to Brisbane and through the worst times of COVID in Australia how many ICU beds have we needed nationally? The answer is very few. Have we got even close to 10% usage of available beds? No.

“Matt Canavan has proven yet again the Nationals have become nothing more than lackeys of the Liberal Party.

“Senator Canavan is just scare mongering and rubbishing a great Queensland city. There’s absolutely no valid reason why he should be denigrating this proposal for a facility in Queensland that will save Australian taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and create around 300 jobs.”

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