Australia’s political class is not putting Australians first.
The Nationals and Liberals are more interested in fighting each other than actually putting forward something that will benefit the country – cheaper power and cheaper groceries by ditching Net-Zero.
Interview with @empactnews
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Australian leaders, to be good, to be effective, have to put Australia’s interest first. That is the theme that drives Pauline and myself.
You know, Pauline has a very simple political philosophy. Is it in Australia’s interest?
David Littleproud’s net zero, it’s his baby, is not in Australia’s interest. It is counter to Australia’s interest. It is death to Australia’s energy sector, death to manufacturing, death to our environment with solar and wind turbines destroying the environment.
You know these people are pushing up solar and wind to protect the planet while killing the environment. I mean, this is insane. On environmental grounds, on farm and food security grounds, on economic grounds, on energy grounds. Every which way we look, this is rubbish. And to make it worse, it’s all based on the stuff that comes out of the south end of a northbound bull.
I want to say thank you to the people of Queensland for re-electing me to the Senate for another 6 year term.
One Nation increases it’s Senate representation by 50% with a new Senator from WA also elected, after coming agonisingly close in Victoria and South Australia.
I will continue my mission as a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia.
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I’ve just learned that I’ve been elected back into the Senate for the third time.
So first of all I want to thank the people of Queensland and the people of Australia for their confidence in me.
And secondly, I want to say that I am being elected to serve the people of Queensland and Australia and that’s what I’ll be doing.
I’ll be continuing to serve the people of Queensland, Australia, and I’ll do that with a lot of courage and a lot of character and a lot of sincerity.
And I look forward to serving with the new Senator for WA, Tyron Whitten – One Nation Senator in WA.
I look forward to working with you, mate.
So here’s to the next six years.
Official Declaration of Senate Victory
At the official declaration of my Senate victory. I had the opportunity to make a short statement.
Thank you to all Australians who chose to put One Nation somewhere on their vote – it truly mattered.
With 4 Senators now instead of 2, One Nation will be able to take your voice directly to the floor of Parliament.
Thank you to all candidates, volunteers and members – this isn’t possible without you.
https://img.youtube.com/vi/Yq8l-QbDXk0/maxresdefault.jpg7201280Senator Malcolm Robertshttps://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/One-Nation-Logo1-300x150.pngSenator Malcolm Roberts2025-05-29 19:00:002025-06-05 16:40:59Re-Elected! Plus One Nation Increases Representation by 50%
Globalists keeping urging Australia to send our next generation overseas to die in a foreign land in a foreign conflict.
One Nation believes we should prioritise the defence of Australia, rather than involving ourselves in wars in Ukraine or the Middle East – again.
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Senator ROBERTS: Putin does something that Donald Trump does very well. They both stand up for their country.
Sally Turner: The war on Ukraine has been going on for years. Australia has given over $1.5 billion in aid. So do you think that support should continue?
Senator ROBERTS: No, not at all. Right from the very start of this conflict, I happened by accident to be sitting in the Senate and then we saw people from all parties file into the Senate, one after the other, and they spoke about how we need to hit this bastard Putin, how we need to turn the tyrant back. Everyone was warmongering, and then I stood up near the end of the debate and just said, I think what we need to do here is pause – just pause. No one’s asking questions, Sally-Ann. That’s the problem. We just blindly follow the United States into one conflict after another. We should not go barging into some European conflict at all. We need to concentrate and focus on our home defence.
Sally Turner: Is there a time or a situation where you think, oh yeah, we should actually help out in that conflict? Or do you think Australia should never get involved?
Senator ROBERTS: We should not be going overseas as a general rule I follow, and when we do, we need solid plans and exit plans and quantifiable goals, and we need reviews regularly. I accept that the government must make a quick decision sometimes, but we must have a three monthly review of the progress, how the goals are going. We don’t have that in this country. We jeopardise people’s lives and there’s no accountability. And I mean that word no and I mean that word accountability. One of the last conflicts we were in was Iraq, I mean, we went there on solemn promises from Tony Blair in Britain, George W Bush in America and John Howard in Australia that there were weapons of mass destruction, and that is the reason we went in there. All of them later subsequently admitted that there were never any weapons of mass destruction. They all lied. There’s no accountability. We need that.
The largest ever study (QoVAX) comparing COVID injected to non-injected patients has been stopped without explanation, and Queensland Health is on track to destroy all of its samples and evidence.
Losing the last evidence that could inform a truly objective assessment of the effects of the injections wouldn’t just be a tragedy, it could be a crime.
I’m putting Queensland Health bureaucrats on notice. Do NOT destroy these samples and evidence – allow the study to complete so that the data can be shared for all Australians.
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This building could become the biggest crime scene in Australia.
I’m standing outside the Queensland Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Metro North, where Queensland Health intends to cover up and destroy evidence of the COVID vaccine fraud.
In 2021, a major research project, the QoVAX study, started researching 10,600 biospecimens from donors injected with the COVID-19 injections and from donors not injected.
The study was considering effectiveness and outcomes of being injected versus non injected.
It was to be the largest study of this nature in the world to date.
After only 18 months, the $20 million programme was shut down suddenly and without warning and with no valid reason provided. The donors were not even consulted, and neither were senior scientists running the study.
Metro North now intends to destroy the data and specimens, even though they’ve been informed of pending legal action to preserve the valuable data and evidence in the samples and material.
Destroying the samples would be a crime. Punishment for all responsible could include gaol time and massive fines.
The Human Research and Ethics Committee and board members of Metro North are failing in their duty and oversight responsibilities. This may make them culpable.
Why do these bodies wish to destroy the samples and data? What are they trying to hide?
Papers are about to be completed and published for the first 18 months of the research. If the research reveals problems with the COVID shots, it would embarrass Queensland Health bureaucrats and politicians. That’s motive for destroying the samples and the evidence.
If the research reveals no problems with the shots, why would Queensland Health not release the data and conclusions?
With a $4 billion annual budget, Queensland Health’s Metro North can afford to continue storing the samples and preserve the data.
I call for this decision to be immediately withdrawn and steps taken to preserve the specimens and reinstate this vital programme to provide conclusions as to the nature and effects of the COVID injections.
I’m sending letters to raise this issue with the Premier of Queensland, the Minister for Health and the Attorney General.
This is just another reason why Prime Minister Anthony Albanese must call a royal Commission into the entire COVID response.
Letters to Queensland’s Premier, Attorney-General and Minister for Health
https://img.youtube.com/vi/8JT2TyqPBSk/maxresdefault.jpg7201280Senator Malcolm Robertshttps://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/One-Nation-Logo1-300x150.pngSenator Malcolm Roberts2025-05-22 18:11:002025-05-22 18:12:56Crime Scene in the Making: Hospital Moves to Destroy COVID Vaccine Data
We’ve won significant battles against WHO’s power grab! The original ‘zero draft’ has been gutted – 50 pages removed including intrusive measures. But we can’t rest. This UN agreement is still designed to hide truth & promote propaganda. One Nation says NO to WHO control over Australia. Prime Minister Albanese must not sign!
UPDATE: On 21 May 2025, the World Health Assembly (WHA) approved the Pandemic Agreement. The agreement was carried by acclamation (applause), rather than a formal vote. Of the WHO’s 194 members, only 154 participated. Eleven countries, including Russia and Israel, abstained, while others—such as the United States—did not attend.
This outcome gives the WHO the numbers to proceed with the Agreement, but it also highlights a lack of support that may hinder implementation of the measures.
Australia’s Health Minister, Mark Butler, has signed the Agreement on behalf of Australia. However, it must still be ratified by both Houses of Parliament before it can take effect.
One Nation will lead the campaign to oppose the Agreement in Parliament.
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We’re winning the war we started on the World Health Organisation in April 2022. Yet it’s not over. Here’s an update.
Earlier in 2022, with support from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain and the European Union, the United States proposed A Pandemic Treaty to the UN’s World Health Organisation, known as the WHO.
This “Zero Draft”, as it was called, proposed giving WHO unprecedented powers to come into member nations like Australia and impose vaccine mandates, forced vaccination, forced medical procedures, lockdowns, border closures and business closures to supposedly control the next pandemic. Even though such measures failed abysmally in the 2020 to 2024 response. Fortunately African nations came together to defeat and block the treaty.
To Australia’s eternal shame, our elected representatives though from the Liberals, Labor, Teals, Greens and Nationals, with support from health bureaucrats, voted in favour of selling out Australian sovereignty in an act of national betrayal. Treachery!
For the last three years the Treaty has been progressing through the convoluted WHO. It’s undergone many reviews and attempts to gain consensus support. This has now occurred. A watered down consensus agreement is on the agenda at the World Health Assembly (WHA), which starts tonight.
Fortunately though, the consensus document looks nothing like the original “Zero Draft”. 50 pages have been taken out of the document, including all the intrusive measures and the powers to police those intrusions.
This consensus document no longer sets the WHO up as the world health police. My concern though, is that our Australian health bureaucrats, with their globalist loyalties, will respond to the next exaggerated health emergency with measures that take away our basic human rights and attempt to justify that saying “The WHO made me do it”.
This agreement does nothing of the sort. It is, though, still garbage. Information sharing is a major part of the document. Let’s not forget that the WHO covered up the last pandemic’s origins and covered up the harm that resulted from the responses – vaccines, masking, lockdowns, restrictions, mandates, removal of basic human rights and fundamental medical principles and rights. It’s a long list, an inhuman list.
So we must ask – what information will the WHO spread? The truth?
No way. This UN agreement is designed to make it easier to cover up and hide the truth, and just in case there’s any doubt about the purpose of the agreement, the use of propaganda is promoted at Clause 6.2.D
Trust in the UN’s WHO is shot. It’s a pointless, corrupt organisation with a former terrorist as its head to line the pockets of WHO’s corporate sponsors specifically to sell vaccines on behalf of the vaccine companies who fund the WHO. The agreement is designed to put a respectable wrapping around naked crony capitalism – fraud, theft, and One Nation is having none of it.
One Nation opposes the pandemic agreement. It’s not up to the UN’s WHO and it’s 8000 bureaucrats living the high life in cities like Geneva to tell or advise Australia what our response to a health emergency should be.
Prime Minister Albanese must not sign The Pandemic Agreement. Instead withdraw completely from the WHO and bring our permanent delegation home from Geneva immediately.
Powerful video from America’s national Health Secretary (Minister), Robert F Kennedy Jnr.
RFK Jnr made and sent this video to national health ministers and bureaucrats attending the UN-WHO’s World Health Assembly.
He raises many core issues that when addressed would put the USA and the world on a track back to full health and to freedom from Big Pharma.
He omits one key point: the fact that in addition to CCP funding of Gain-Of-Function research in Wuhan China, the USA National Institutes of Health and Anthony Fauci unlawfully funded and drove such research in Wuhan AND unlawfully initiated and continued to oversee research into the manmade Covid-19 virus at the University of North Carolina under the leadership of Ralph Baric.
RFK Jnr’s 5-minutes video gives the world hope.
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To my colleagues in public health, I’m Robert F Kennedy Junior, the US Health and Human Services Secretary.
As you know, President Trump has made the decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organisation.
I’d like to take this opportunity to offer some background to that decision and more importantly, to chart a future path toward global cooperation on health and health security.
Like many legacy institutions, the WHO has become mired in bureaucratic bloat and trench paradigms, conflicts of interest and international power politics.
While the United States has provided the lion’s share of the organisation funding, historically, other countries such as China have exerted undue influence over its operations in ways that serve their own interests and not particularly the interests of the global public.
This all became obvious during the COVID pandemic when the WHO, under pressure from China, suppressed reports at critical junctures of human to human transmission and then worked with China to promote the fiction that COVID originated from bats or pangolins rather than from a Chinese government sponsored research at a bio lab in Wuhan.
Not only has it WHO capitulated to political pressure from China, it’s also failed to maintain an organisation characterised by transparency and fair governance by and for its member states. The WHO often acts like it has forgotten that its members must remain accountable to their own citizens and not to transnational or corporate interests.
Now, I believe that for the most part, the staff of the WHO are a conscientious people who sincerely believe in what they’re doing. And indeed, the WHO has since its inception accomplished important work, including the eradication of smallpox. Too often, though, the WHO’s priorities have increasingly reflected the biases and interests of corporate medicine. Too often it has allowed political agendas, like pushing harmful gender ideology, to hijack its core mission. And too often it has become the tool of politics and turned its back on promoting health and health security.
Global cooperation on health is still critically important to President Trump and myself, but it isn’t working very well under the WHO, as the failures of the COVID era demonstrate. The WHO has not even come to terms with its failures during COVID, let alone made significant reforms. Instead, it has doubled down with the pandemic agreement, which will lock in all of the dysfunctions of the WHO pandemic response.
We’re not going to participate in that. We need to reboot the whole system, as we are doing in the United States. Here in the United States, we’re going to continue to focus on infectious disease and pandemic preparedness, but we’re also fundamentally shifting the priorities of our health agencies to focus on chronic diseases, which are prevalent in the United States.
It’s the chronic disease epidemic that is sickening our people and bankrupting our healthcare system. We’re now pivoting to make our healthcare system more responsive to this reality.
We’re going to make healthcare in the United States serve the needs of the public instead of industry profit taking. We’re removing food dyes and other harmful additives from our food supply. We’re investigating the causes of autism and other chronic diseases. We’re seeking to reduce consumption of ultra processed foods. And we’re going to support lifestyle changes that will bolster the immune systems and transform the health of our people.
Few of these efforts lend themselves easily to profits or serve establish special interests. These changes can only occur through the kind of systemic overhaul that President Trump has brought to our country.
We’d like to see a similar reordering of priorities on the global stage, especially considering the fact that through the leadership of the United States and funding from our country over the past 25 years, millions of global citizens have seen a reduction in premature death due to HIV, TB and malaria.
Let’s return to the core focus of global health and global health security, back to reducing infectious disease burden and the spread of diseases of pandemic potential.
I urge the world’s health ministers and the WHO to take our withdrawal from the organisation as a wake up call. It isn’t that President Trump and I have lost interest in international cooperation, Not at all. We just want it to happen in a way that’s fair and efficient and transparent for all the Member States.
We’ve already been in contact with like minded countries and we encourage others to consider joining us. We want a free international health cooperation from the straight jacket of political interference by corrupting influences of the pharmaceutical companies of adversarial nations and their NGO proxies.
I would like to take this opportunity to invite my fellow health ministers around the world into a new era of cooperation. We don’t have to suffer the limits of a more abundant WHO.
Let’s create new institutions or revisit existing institutions that are lean, efficient, transparent, and accountable. Whether it’s an emergency outbreak of an infectious disease or the pervasive rod of chronic conditions that have been overtaking not just America but the whole world, we’re ready to work with you.
Thank you and May God bless you, and let’s all pray for the health of our children and our grandchildren.
Produced by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
https://img.youtube.com/vi/toTUNlOlKr4/hqdefault.jpg360480Senator Malcolm Robertshttps://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/One-Nation-Logo1-300x150.pngSenator Malcolm Roberts2025-05-22 18:05:142025-05-22 18:05:18US Exits WHO: Let’s Build a Better System Together
During a recent “question time” in the senate, I asked the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change about the total cost of the net zero transition. In her absence, Minister Watt responded, estimating the cost to be between $120 billion and $130 billion. However, this figure is significantly lower than other estimates, such as Bloomberg’s $1.9 trillion.
Minister Watt claims that the government’s plan is the cheapest way to meet our future power needs. Yet, he couldn’t provide a clear figure for the taxpayer money being spent on this transition.
This lack of transparency is concerning, especially when wasteful government spending is feeding inflation and the budget remains in deficit.
One Nation is committed to holding the government accountable and ensuring that Australians know the true cost of these policies. We need a government that values transparency and makes decisions based on the best interests of the people. One Nation will ditch net-zero so that we can put more money back in your pocket.
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Senator ROBERTS: My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change, Senator McAllister. Minister, what is the total cost of the net zero transition?
The PRESIDENT: Senator McAllister is away up north, so your question is to Minister Watt.
Senator ROBERTS: Minister Watt, what is the total cost of the net zero transition?
Senator WATT: Thanks, Senator Roberts. Yes, I’m representing Senator McAllister who represents Minister Bowen, while she’s in Townsville for the floods. Given I am the representing minister, I’m just waiting to have those figures handed to me. But I know that we have had that transition costed, and it’s in the order of $120 billion to $130 billion. That’s my understanding. Importantly, the CSIRO—an organisation I know you haven’t got an enormous amount of time for but the most reputable science organisation in the country—and the Australian Energy Market Operator, who probably knows more about the energy market than any other group within Australia, have both made clear that ensuring that we meet our future power needs with renewables backed up by gas and firmed by batteries is the cheapest way that we can meet our power needs going forward.
I wasn’t too far off the mark. AEMO’s integrated system plan found that the net present value under a step-change scenario towards a renewable based system is $122 billion. Of course, that’s significantly lower than the figure it will cost for Mr Dutton’s nuclear program. As I said, people as reputable in this country as the CSIRO and the Australian Energy Market Operator have both found that it’s not just environmental benefits that we get from meeting our power needs through renewables going forwards but it’s actually the cheapest way we can do so as well. That’s the direct answer to your question—it’s $122 billion.
The PRESIDENT: Senator Roberts, first supplementary?
Senator ROBERTS: Let me make the question easier. Minister, how much taxpayers’ money is the government spending on the net zero transition across forward estimates?
Senator WATT: Thanks, Senator Roberts. I don’t have a figure just for the forward estimates, being the next four years. But, as I said, the cost of delivering our power network into the future under the government’s plan is $122 billion in net present value terms.
Now, I know there is another plan out there. But is it really a plan, or, as Senator Canavan revealed, is it just a political fix? Whatever it is, that nuclear plan from Mr Dutton costs $600 billion. We know that means that power prices will go up by about $1,200 per household per year. And we know that, to fund that $600 billion that is required for the nuclear program, Mr Dutton will have to put in place very big cuts to things like Medicare, energy support, cost-of-living relief, housing, pensions and all manner of other things to fund the most expensive form of power you can provide.
The PRESIDENT: Senator Roberts, second supplementary?
Senator ROBERTS: Minister, Bloomberg has put the cost of Australia’s net zero transition at $1.9 trillion. One Nation uses a consensus figure of $1.5 trillion. Across forward estimates, the budget is in deficit. Wasteful, undisciplined government spending is feeding inflation. And you can’t even tell me how much will be spent on net zero across the forward estimates. Minister, will you at least give an undertaking to table, on the first day of the March sitting, the figure for the total cost of the net zero transition, including the forward estimates?
Senator WATT: Well, I’ve already provided the figure of $122 billion. I’m not across the Bloomberg estimate that you cite, Senator Roberts, and I’m certainly not across the One Nation consensus figure. I assume that’s a consensus between you and Senator Hanson—you’ve had to sort of thrash that one out between the two of you and arrived at a consensus of $1.5 trillion!
The PRESIDENT: Senator Roberts?
Senator Roberts: I’m happy to answer Senator Watt’s question.
The PRESIDENT: Perhaps some other time, thank you, Senator Roberts.
Senator WATT: Maybe James Ashby was in there as well, with the calculator going, working out a consensus figure. And I certainly don’t know what assumptions underpinned the One Nation/James Ashby/Senator Hanson/Senator Roberts consensus figure. But the fact is that the cheapest way that we can meet our power needs into the future—as cited by AEMO and the CSIRO, our most eminent scientific body—is at a cost of $122 billion. That is the cheapest way we can meet our power needs, which I think is a very good reason for any government, no matter what their political party, to pursue it.
https://img.youtube.com/vi/ViNPfJUwaNI/maxresdefault.jpg7201280Senator Malcolm Robertshttps://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/One-Nation-Logo1-300x150.pngSenator Malcolm Roberts2025-05-22 16:06:182025-06-05 16:12:21Ditch Net Zero – Deliver Savings to Australians
During the last Senate Estimates, I questioned ARENA about their massive spending of taxpayer money. The numbers are staggering – they’ve now committed $2.15 billion in subsidies to supposedly “cheap” renewable projects.
Despite claims that solar is “the cheapest form of electricity generation in history,” Australians’ power bills tell a different story. The reality is they don’t account for all the extra costs of firming, storage, transmission lines and general unreliability. This is what happens when government agencies focus on pushing unreliable renewables instead of ensuring affordable power for Australian families.
We used to have some of the cheapest electricity in the world, but these massive subsidies and failed green energy policies are driving up costs for everyone.
The net zero fantasy is already hurting our regions, ruining small businesses, and driving up the cost of living across Australia. It’s time to ditch these wasteful subsidies and return to reliable, affordable power.
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Senator ROBERTS: Do you ever think about how much taxpayer money your agency has spent on net zero policies, only for power bills to continue to get more expensive?
Mr Miller: Senator, that doesn’t occupy much of my time. We’re working on innovation to help lower the cost of the core technologies that go into lowering power bills in the long term. And, as you would appreciate, this innovation cycle takes a while. We’ve obviously seen the success of solar PV, which was maybe written off many years ago, but has come through as the lowest cost form of generation in history, as we’ve noted in past conversations. I’m very confident, actually, that wind technology, solar technology and battery technology, which is coming down the cost curve rapidly, combined at scale will actually reduce energy costs for Australians.
Senator ROBERTS: Is your job to bring down power bills or give money to solar and wind energy? How much does the Australian Renewable Energy Agency currently administer in deployed capital in terms of loans or equity stakes?
Mr Miller: The objects of ARENA, the agency, are set out in the act. They are to improve the competitiveness of renewable energy technologies, increase the supply of renewable technologies and support Australia’s decarbonisation emissions reduction objectives. You’d be aware that we’re a granting agency, so none of our funding is provided through debt and equity. It’s all through the provision of grants. In some circumstances, those grants are recoupable based on performance of the projects, and we make that decision on a case-by-case basis.
Senator ROBERTS: Thank you. How much did ARENA issue in grants in the most recent year?
Mr Miller: I can get you that in a minute or two. My colleague Mr Faris could probably find that number in the pack. When we think about the progress of our work in terms of project projects, we look at approval rates, which is the key milestone for ARENA when I, under my delegation, or our board, or the minister—
Senator ROBERTS: Getting a project to approval stage.
Mr Miller: When we provide an approval, we then, in most circumstances, are working through to a contract, which ultimately lands to be grant money flowing. But that can take months and years in some cases. But I think in the last financial year we provided approvals of $497 million, and I think in the year before it was $540 million. So, per our annual report: funds approved in 2023-24 total $445 million, and contracts written, which is a later stage, were $392.5 million in that financial year.
Senator ROBERTS: So what did you call your key measurable indicator?
Mr Miller: Approvals. Well, it’s one of many, but, yes, that’s an important one.
Senator ROBERTS: What do you categorise as an approval?
Mr Miller: An approval is a decision by the CEO, the board or the minister, with respect to their relative delegations, to provide funding to a particular project in that amount.
Senator ROBERTS: Approve the funding?
Mr Miller: Approve funding, yes.
Senator ROBERTS: Do you know what your total budget allocation is over the forward estimates, the next four years?
Mr Miller: That will be in the PBS, and we will get that number for you if we can. Otherwise, we’ll take it on notice and provide it.
Senator ROBERTS: Is that located in one area? Are all the different components of the money located in one area?
Mr Miller: It’s an aggregation of various programs and funding pools that we have been provided with by the government over time. Well, let me say governments because we were well supported by the coalition government a number of years ago, and have been even further supported by this government. But it relates to what we call our baseline funding, which is the money that is provided to ARENA where ARENA’s board, essentially, is the primary decision-maker on policy and programmatic objectives. And then, in addition, there are about a dozen programs that ARENA is running, with specific funding amounts, and with specific instructions through the policy instruments, and we’re managing all of that through the funding. But it all gets amalgamated, ultimately, into the forward estimates amounts. So I’d be very happy to read you the figures in the forward estimates for each year, revenue from government, if that would help you. The current year’s revenue from government is $425 million. The budget for next year is $709 million. The year after that, it is $735 million. Then we’re at $1.1 billion, and then we’re at $1.117 billion for the final year of the forward estimates.
Senator ROBERTS: Thank you. That’s a lot of money.
CHAIR: Last question, Senator Roberts.
Senator ROBERTS: Ever since ARENA came on the scene—when was that?—you’ve been issuing grants and loans in solar and wind. Have people’s power bills actually got cheaper?
Mr Miller: It’s not my jurisdiction to talk about power bills, but we came on the scene on 1 July 2012, and as I—
Senator ROBERTS: In 2012?
Mr Miller: Yes, 2012, and, as I mentioned before, we don’t do loans. We do grants.
Senator ROBERTS: You don’t do loans—well, issuing grants then. So you’ve been spending billions of
dollars, and power bills have gone up.
Senator Ayres: Well, Senator, you should—
Senator ROBERTS: I’m asking Mr Miller. You don’t need to—
Senator Ayres: Yes, and I’m entitled to drop in from time to time. It’s one of the inconvenient bits of
estimates for senators who ask questions. If you go and talk to your constituents in the main street of a country town somewhere in Queensland—
Senator ROBERTS: Which is what I’ll do.
Senator Ayres: Yeah, I know. We saw you beaming in. But if you talk to them and then listen to the answer that they give you—engage in a conversation—what you’ll find is that many of them have solar technology on their roofs, which substantially decreases their electricity costs.
Senator ROBERTS: Well, I actually was talking to a shopkeeper yesterday, and she said—
Senator Ayres: Fascinating as that is, I am just going to keep answering your question.
Senator ROBERTS: power bills have gone up tremendously.
Senator Ayres: That is technology that was invented in Australia. All of the IP in solar panels all around the world—it’s Australian, right? It’s something that we should be proud of as a country—invented here, substantially reducing costs for households, with some of them earning a quid because they are under residual agreements.
Senator ROBERTS: Without your subsidies, without your energy relief, the costs would be higher than ever.
CHAIR: Okay. And we are running out of time.
Senator Ayres: They are substantially benefiting from that technology. Now, it’s different for different households. Our job as a government is to make sure that the lowest-cost technology is in the system, and also to make sure that more of those Australian inventions are commercialised here in Australia and manufactured in Australia, and Mr Miller and ARENA’s work is to make sure that more of that technology is commercialised in Australia, and they’re doing a very good job indeed.
Senator ROBERTS: Your policies are driving up prices
While the media declares the election over on Saturday night, One Nation always has to wait a lot longer for our results where we have the best chance of being elected – in the proportional representation of the Senate.
Senate races can take up to 5 weeks to count, meaning we may still be 3 weeks away from a formal declaration of the result.
In the House of Representatives, One Nation’s nationwide result is very satisfying with a nationwide average vote of 6.39% (+1.43).
A particular shout out must go to Stuart Bonds in the Hunter NSW, who beat the Nationals and was the last candidate standing for the two-party preferred count up against Labor.
With some final counting still to come, 970,000 Australians chose to mark One Nation as their number one choice for the House of Representatives alone. I am eternally grateful to all of our fantastic candidates, volunteers and online supporters that made this result possible.
I know Labor’s victory may not have been what a lot of you were hoping for. Yet, amidst the uncertainty, there’s a clear and encouraging outcome: The Greens have lost three of their four lower house MP’s – Max Chandler-Mather (Griffith) and Stephen Bates (Brisbane), as well as the leader of the party, Adam Bandt in Melbourne.
For too long, the Greens have pushed divisive ideologies that have hurt our industries, undermined our values, and driven a wedge between Australians. Their agenda has been out of touch with everyday Australians, and this result shows that voters are ready for a change. This is a win for common sense and a win for hardworking Australians who’ve had enough of being ignored. It’s time for policies that put Australia first.
My re-election in the Queensland Senate is looking strong. The counting process is still underway and is expected to take a couple more weeks to finalise.
A number of One Nation candidates for the Senate in other states have made a commendable effort. They will be more reliant on very strong preference flow to get over the line, which we won’t know the result of for a number of weeks.
Despite a significant increase in the One Nation vote, Jennifer Game in South Australia finds herself in a challenging position—through no fault of her own. This situation is largely due to the way Senate seats are being filled, following a dismal performance by the Coalition and a strong surge from Labor. Unfortunately, this has made the path to securing a seat more difficult.
I’m crossing my fingers for an extra strong preference flow towards Warwick Stacey in NSW, Lee Hanson in TAS, Warren Pickering in VIC and Tyrone Whitten in WA.
None of the micro parties have a chance at getting a Senator in, however the parties that recommended to their voters to preference against One Nation may stop us getting over the line in those states. We remain hopeful.
In short: the race isn’t over yet!
I am deeply grateful for everyone especially in Queensland who supported One Nation and my campaign.
We saw a rise in support, thanks in large part to our comprehensive policy platform, the dedication of our incredible volunteers who gave their time, energy, and resources to help spread the message and man polling booths. Their commitment made a real difference, and this result is a testament to their hard work.
Once the Senate count is finalised and there’s more news to share, I’ll be sure to keep you updated. In the meantime, rest assured—we’re already hard at work planning our strategy for tackling the new Parliament. Our focus remains clear: restoring common sense to the decisions that shape our country’s future.
https://i0.wp.com/www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/hunter2.png?fit=478%2C269&ssl=1269478Senator Malcolm Robertshttps://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/One-Nation-Logo1-300x150.pngSenator Malcolm Roberts2025-05-15 17:07:422025-05-16 10:32:12So, how did One Nation actually go? (the count is still on)
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), a record 201,490 new foreign students arrived in Australia in February alone. This surge raises a pressing question: where are these people going to sleep?
Senator Watt responded by highlighting the government’s efforts to build new housing (and claiming they’ve done more in three years than the coalition did in almost a decade), however he failed to address the core issue: the government’s inability to control immigration numbers.
Despite promises to bring numbers under control, the reality is stark. The latest data shows that housing starts have decreased since the current government took office, exacerbating the housing crisis. The government’s measures to reduce overseas student numbers have also fallen short, with significant increases in arrivals compared to previous years.
We need a government that put Australians first. One Nation is committed to addressing these issues head-on. We will continue to push for policies that prioritise the needs of Australians, hold the government accountable for its failures and make migration net-negative until our housing and infrastructure catches up.
Transcript
Senator ROBERTS: My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Senator Watt. According to ABS data—that’s Australian Bureau of Statistics data—last month 201,490 new foreign students arrived in Australia. This is a new record for the month of February. Where are these people going to sleep?
Senator WATT: Thank you, Senator Roberts. For starters, obviously, this government has done more in three years to build new housing than we saw in almost 10 years under a coalition government. That’s the first thing. Of course, what we know is that every measure this government has introduced to build more housing while the coalition have been in opposition they’ve voted against. So, for almost 10 years in government, they did nothing about housing, didn’t build a single public home and didn’t build a single social home; they get into opposition and they vote against everything we do to build more homes. That’s the first part of the answer.
Senator Roberts, as you’ll recall, not that long ago, this government sought to pass legislation that would reduce overseas student numbers, because we did recognise there had been an increase to that. Who voted against that as well? That was the opposition that voted against that. Who was the shadow education minister who led the charge against that? That was Senator Henderson. She’s got a lot to say now, but she led the charge against our legislation to try to introduce caps on international student numbers. We will continue to act on both of these things. We will continue to deliver the housing that the opposition voted against; we have taken different measures outside of legislation to deal with the number of international students.
I might also make the point that, in the meantime, our government has acted, and migration levels are coming down as a result of the measures that we’ve taken. In fact, there are fewer people arriving into Australia now than when someone else was the home affairs minister. Who would that be? Peter Dutton—Mr Dutton. So, for all of the promises Mr Dutton is making about immigration now, when he was actually the minister in charge of this, there were more people moving to Australia and migrating to Australia than there are now. (Time expired)
The PRESIDENT: Senator Roberts, first supplementary?
Senator ROBERTS: On 11 December 2023, the then home affairs minister, Clare O’Neil, issued a press statement, which included the comment, ‘We are going to make sure we bring numbers back under control.’ Minister, clearly you have not succeeded in getting the numbers back under control. Can you please explain the reason why this government has not been able to control how many people arrive in Australia?
Senator WATT: As I said, as a result of the actions this government has taken, we are seeing migration numbers fall in Australia compared to what they were when we came to office, as a result of the policies of the opposition. In fact, to give you a few more statistics on this, Senator Roberts, there were 10,000 more overseas student arrivals in Australia in January 2019, when—guess who—Mr Dutton was in charge of our borders. More importantly, the number of student visa applications in Australia has dropped by 30 per cent compared with this time last year. This is proof that our measures are working, despite the coalition voting to block our plan to cap overseas student numbers. We’ve all seen, over the last couple of years, the results of Mr Dutton leaving us with a broken migration system—the Albanian crime gangs who have been rorting our visa system and more still. We have been dealing with that and cleaning it up, and we’re now seeing the results with migration numbers falling.
The PRESIDENT:Senator Roberts, second supplementary?
Senator ROBERTS: In the June quarter of 2022, just after your election, housing starts were 47,000. The latest ABS data for the September quarter last year shows just 42,000 starts. You are building fewer homes but bringing in more new arrivals and that has caused the housing catastrophe. If this government is not controlling immigration numbers, who is? Is it the bureaucrats? Is it the universities? Is it the Chinese and Indian governments? Who is in control of Australia’s immigration program?
Senator WATT: I can assure you, Senator Roberts, it’s not the one world government in control of our policies. That’s definitely not the case. The Australian government, of course, is in charge of our migration policies, and it’s the Australian government who has reduced migration numbers over the last three years through a variety of measures—
Senator Canavan: *interjecting—*
Senator WATT: including a number of measures that the very vocal Senator Canavan over there voted against. They’ve got a lot of things to say from the cheap seats over there in the opposition, but, whenever they get the chance to vote on something, they vote against it.
Senator Roberts, I don’t know whether the figures you have just quoted about the number housing starts are correct or not; I’d have to check them. But what I do know is that the construction of new housing being funded through our Housing Australia Future Fund was held up for month after month after month by the unholy coalition of the Liberals, the Nationals, One Nation and the Greens. They blocked our legislation and prevented spending on housing that has finally been passed by the Senate, still with the opposition of this lot over there. We’re now getting on with building those homes.
