Member for the seat of Hunter, Mr Joel Fitzgibbon MP, ought to resign and offer the voters a real choice for representation at a by-election. Senator Roberts said, “Mr Fitzgibbon’s resignation from the ALP cabinet over climate policy is damming confirmation that Labor no longer represents blue-collar workers. “He cannot be effective sitting on the back-bench […]
The Reserve Bank of Australia has just given $100 billion to prop up the banks but why is the government ignoring spending that would increase our productive capacity like road, coal power stations and dams? Transcript [Marcus Paul] All right, the RBA this week cut the interest rate down to you know, virtually nothing. 0.1% […]
Marcus Paul and I discussed the proposed Commonwealth Corruption Commission which is long overdue and designed to be a toothless tiger. Transcript [Marcus] Retired Victorian Supreme Court Judge, Stephen Charles said, “This is not a corruption commission. It’s designed to protect parliamentarians and senior public servants from investigation. After two years of waiting, this is […]
Great chat with Marcus Paul today. We discussed the Queensland and US elections and the proposed federal crimes commission. Transcript Marcus Paul Yeah, it’s a good thing that Malcolm loves to talk, because I’m losing my voice. Good morning, mate, how are you? Malcolm Roberts I’m very well, thanks, Marcus, how are you? Marcus Paul […]
For over 12 months I have been trying to find solutions to an unfair industrial relations system that has caused serious issues in the mining sector in the Hunter Valley and Queensland. There is a systemic issue of ‘full-time casuals’ who are being paid 40% less than their full-time counterparts and not receiving casual loadings […]
During Senate Estimates earlier in the year, I was able to get Coal LSL to admit that there were discrepancies in hours worked reported by employers and to start an audit. Since this questioning, many other workers have come forward with issues and questions they wanted asked in Senate Estimates. Accountability and transparency seems to […]
This round of questioning occurred in the October/November Hearings of Budget Estimates, focusing on large concerns I had brought to my attention over the sale of CuDeco. FIRB provides recommendations to the Government in relation to the risk of certain foreign investments. Transcript Senator ROBERTS: Thank you for appearing today. My questions are with regard […]
I am shocked that the CSIRO came so unprepared to Senate Estimates when I gave them my questions in advance. For an organisation who claims to have been studying climate science for 60 years, their responses were truly embarrassing. I will prepare a more detailed response in the next few days, but to be clear, […]
One Nation has led the fight in the Senate against the Cash Ban bill, which makes any cash transaction over $10,000 illegal. Our efforts stopped the bill from passing, but the Government has not formally withdrawn the bill. At this estimates we started a campaign to have the bill removed from Senate business permanently. Our […]
De-banking is the process of banks closing accounts for businesses or individuals. All the big banks are now de-banking clients and claiming that this is for Anti Money Laundering reasons, but it is just not true. At our Senate Estimates questions, APRA agreed they had authority in this area and also agreed they were doing […]
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