Farm Household Assistance

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The Farm Household Allowance Bill was on today’s agenda as a matter of importance.

Transcript

As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I support this bill. The reform to make the farm household allowance a flat rate paid on current income, helps to reduce the regulatory burden on farms, who already work long hours for decreasing rewards.

These income audits were a massive distraction, so this is a good move from the government, a welcome move, the extension of time for conducting an assessment helps farms involve their accountants, or bookkeepers, in a process that was previously an ordeal.

My concern in light of current events, is that COVID-19 assistance is targeted at urban, and not rural areas. Our farmers have come through the worst drought in 100 years and the drought may or may not be ending.

What we do know is that the rivers are full, but the damns are empty. Farmers are watching this water, this bounty of water, running down rivers and out to sea. General-security water licence holders are still on zero allocation, they have no confidence that irrigation licences will be honoured.

If international trade is being disrupted, we need to grow food, we need to allow more water to be taken for irrigation. The environment has had a drink, a bellyful, from recent rains, it’s now the farmer’s turn.

What good is farm assistance if farmers go broke, because we took too much water for the environment and not enough for food and fibre? And I’d like to talk about the productive capacity of our country, especially the rural productive capacity.

We have destroyed it in the last 20 years. Farmers have had their ability, their right, to use the land taken from them, stolen from them, to comply with international agreements starting with the UN’s Kyoto protocol.

We need that back, or farmers paid compensation for the loss of their rights. Secondly, water, I’ve just touched on water, but we need to have investment in water infrastructure, and make sure that farmers have that water, because its essential for food. And we need energy prices to be lowered.

We have the world’s biggest exports of natural gas and coal, and yet we have among the highest prices of electricity in this country. We have farmers not able to irrigate, because they can’t afford the electricity to pump water in a country that’s blessed with energy.

What is going on? We have to restore the productive capacity of our country, which means getting back to sensible electricity policies, energy policies, so that we have, once again the lowest prices in the world, the best policies, we’ve got now, the worst.

Restoring the productive capacity will involve, also, other sectors, including education, but it starts with land use, the right to use the land that farmers have bought, the right to access water at sensible prices, free of corruption, and the right to electricity at reasonable prices.

I also want to talk about one other aspect, and that is we have fallen for the globalist trap, of interdependence, inter-dependence, and what that really is, is dependence, because when we’re in interdependent on someone else, with around the globe, and they shut down, we’re suddenly dependent on them.

Australia has got abundant minerals, abundant energies, abundant agricultural resources. We’re not using these resources. Australia has enormous potential with its people, with its resources and its opportunities, and we need to rekindle these, and get back to putting Australia first.

No more interdependence, because that is simply dependence We need to become independent, as we were and we were independent we thrived. And that, when we restore our independence, we will restore our economic resilience and we’ll also restore our productive capacity.

So we compliment the government on this initiative, but we need to go much much further to restore the productive capacity, and economic resilience of our country. Thank you, Mr. President.

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Indonesia ‘free trade’ agreement a stinker

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 I spoke about 3 “free trade” agreements that the Liberal, National and Labor party have voted together to approve.

Globalists united!

While there is some fantastic news for farmers, the Indonesian agreement is a stinker.

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My first comment, Mr President is to criticise this Government for bundling 3 free trade agreements into the one piece of legislation. It is no wonder that we are being forced to vote for or against these agreements as some bizarre “job lot”, because the Indonesia Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement is a stinker.

The dishonesty from this government extends beyond bundling the agreements. It extends to the lies this Government is telling about the agreements.

Let me talk about ISDS – Investor State Dispute Settlement provisions in all 3 of these agreements before us today.

These clauses allow private companies to sue the Australian Government if our actions cost them money.

Let me give you some examples.

When President Putin came to power he took on the corrupt Oligarchs that exploited the end of communism to steal everything worth stealing, and then pay no taxes on all this wealth. Putin cleaned up the oligarchs and many fled overseas. From there they used ISDS provisions to sue Putin for acting in Russia’s best interests, and for making them pay their fair share of tax. And they won Mr President.

Now I know why Prime Minister Morrison loves ISDS provisions so much. Large corporates paying their fair share of tax, Mr President, not on the Prime Minister’s watch!

Renco Group Inc., a company owned by one of the richest men in America, invested in a metal smelter Peru which is one of the 10 most polluted mining sites in the world. Peru took Renco to their local court to force Renco to install sulphur filters to make the air in neighbouring villages breathable.

A local Court found in the villagers favour, but then Renco moved the case to an ISDS panel and won.

This is One Nation’s objections to ISDS provisions. It takes justice away from everyday Australians and moves it into international Courts where even a small case costs in the tens of millions.

In these courts there is no national interest, there is no thoughts of common law protections of our inaliable human rights, no consideration of basic principles of justice.

National interest is subverted to corporate profits and to hell with the consequences for everyday citizens.

Could this heartless liberal nationals government be summed up any better than that.

Let me turn to labour market provisions. This agreement allows Indonesia to supply 4100 new temporary visa holders into the Australian market, rising to 5000 annually by 2024.

In addition, this agreement requires Australia to send trainers to Indonesia to skill their labour force up to Australian standards, so even more can come over.

We are not asking if they are going to take jobs from everyday Australians.
We are not asking what effect this will have on the lives, businesses and wages of tradies and construction workers in particular.

Mr President there are currently 1.4 million of these temporary work visa holders in Australia. Every new trade agreement brings more.

Co-incidentally there are also 1.4 million Australians who are unemployed or underemployed.

Yet all we hear from the Government, and oddly today, from the ALP, is that this immigration leads to more jobs.

If more of these workers leads to jobs growth Mr President when is that going to happen?

When are our 1.4 million unemployed and underemployed going to benefit from all these corporate trade agreements?

The answer Mr President is that it will not. These agreements exist to bring in large numbers of foreign workers, to drive down wages and maximise corporate profits.

Australian is used to that from the Liberal National Party.
My question, Mr President, is why is the Australian Labor Party voting for this stinker?

Aren’t you supposed to be the party of labour?

Aren’t you supposed to protect Australian workers?

Apparently not.

There is one aspect of these agreements that One Nation does support.
This is the expansion of Australia’s farm exports.

A half a million tonnes of grain to Indonesia along with a 1300% increase in cattle exports by 2050. Dairy gets another $6 million in exports. Carrot and potato tariffs are eliminated.

The Peru agreement will eliminate a 17 per cent tariff on beer, a 9 per cent tariff on wine and will allow market access for Australian sugar, dairy, beef, lamb, cereals and nuts.

In a time of drought these targets may be at best theoretical, but this drought will not last forever. It will rain again and when it does, these additional markets will be critical to getting our farmers back on their feet.
Our struggling manufacturing sector will benefit from another 250,000 tonnes of steel to Indonesia, and from market access to Peru for our pharmaceutical and minerals markets.

Ultimately, the absolute necessity of keeping our economy out of recession by developing these new markets has decided our vote on this matter.

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How the Greens implement the UN’s 2030 Agenda

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In response to a motion from Senator Hanson-Young, I outlined how the Greens keep changing their position until the UN’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable goals are reached.

The Greens in Tasmania led the war against the forestry industry for decades in the name of conservation. This war against the sustainable forestry industry has seen a decline in the industry, including jobs losses and communities struggling to survive.

In its place the Greens argued, would spring a new tourism boom that would enable Australians and international visitor a chance to visit the incredible natural Tasmanian wilderness.

So now that the free market is looking to invest in the Greens new tourism industry, what do they want to do? Change the rules. They want to change the rules because their intent was never to transition from forestry to tourism but to lock-up and lock-out everyone from enjoying nature.

So what do “high end resorts” bring? High end customers. Wealthy consumers who will help create jobs, create thriving communities with high-end local services and products. Not everyone likes a rugged camping holiday, or a rustic bungalow, some like to have some modern comforts and turning away these consumers is an idea that could only be dreamed up in the fairyland that the Greens exist in.

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Unelected international bureaucracies get free pass

I wanted to see how serious the government was to rein in ‘unelected international bureaucracies’ like the United Nations.

I asked the following questions of Senator Corman – no surprises. All talk and no action.

Question 1. On the 3rd October 2019, the Prime Minister during an address to the Lowy Institute highlighted that unelected international bureaucracies are pushing for a borderless global community that aims to damage Australia’s “livelihoods, our safety and our sovereignty.”

When can we expect the Australian government to remove ourselves from the following damaging treaties, protocols and declarations?

The UN’s 1975 Lima Declaration, the UN’s 1992 Rio declaration for 21st century global governance, the 1996 UN Kyoto agreement and now the destructive UN’s Paris Agreement?

Question 2. Twenty-five years ago, Liberal Premier Richard Court warned of the dangers of unelected bureaucracies in his book, Rebuilding the Federation. He said, ‘These international agreements are made primarily by people outside Australia. The terms and conditions are set by officials from other countries. While Australia takes part in the negotiations, it does not exercise a dominant influence. The foreign countries do.’ For the past 25 years, why have Liberal governments ignored this advice? It’s time to put Australia first.

Question 3. Although the Prime Minister didn’t quite have the courage to name the United Nations as the unelected international bureaucracy that he was condemning, when can we expect Australia to have the courage to exit the United Nations and allow Australians, through the ballot box, to determine Australia’s future, rather than unelected, unaccountable socialist bureaucrats?

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Farmers: The best protectors of the environment

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Farmers have helped build this country but are now being hindered from farming the land by unnatural bureaucracy and unnatural levels of ignorance.

They are in the firing line from the United Nations for being one of the causes of “climate change” and by inner city greens from everything to fabricated animal cruelty claims and causing bushfires.

Our farms are being deprived of water by terrible government regulation.

What happens to a property in a drought once it is deprived of water? It turns into a wasteland with a corresponding loss of habitat for native Australian animals.

Farms are a part of the environment and not separate from it. The Murray Darling Basin plan is devastating the environment by depriving water to farms.

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Dan McDonald appeals Conviction

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Queensland Farmer Dan McDonald took his fight against the stealing of his property rights to the Supreme Court.

Dan was prosecuted and fined for feeding his own cattle his own Mulga trees on his own land during a drought.

“To add insult to injury, in this case, I have been convicted as a criminal, for essentially just using my own property.”

Dan’s story

Farmers charged as criminals for feeding stock

What is Mulga?

How Mulga clearing benefits the environment
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How Mulga clearing benefits the environment

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Here are the facts why mulga must be cleared to protect the environment. Leave Queensland farmers manage the environment – they’ve been doing it successfully for centuries. The Labor & Greens alliance must be stopped! One Nation will restore farmers property rights and cut red tape across all states of Australia.

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Farmers charged as criminals for feeding stock

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Charleville beef farmer Dan Macdonald has recently been convicted and fined $112,000 for using his land and property assets (mulga scrub) to feed his drought-stricken beef herd. In our chat in his family kitchen I learned how damn difficult it is to be a farmer today in Australia because government regulation and UN treaties are controlling every farming input and decision, making farming unsustainable and unprofitable.

Dan explains clearly how farmers are being prevented from earning a living as a result of federal and state politicians putting their obedience to the UN’s rules-based international order ahead of basic Australian rights and freedoms. We call for farmers to either be compensated in just terms for the theft of property rights or have their full legislated property rights restored.

Every Australian can feel very worried about government theft of property rights – farmers, coastal residents, and increasingly urban residents across Australia. Our country’s key issue is atrocious governance.

FAST-FORWARD TO KEY POINTS

The video covers so much ground so here are some shortcuts:

  • 4:35 – Farmers’ challenges, the biggest being government regulations
  • 8:30 – Regulation of water
  • 8:45 – START OF GOVERNMENTS STEALING PROPERTY – KYOTO, UN
  • 12:30 – The start: John Howard & QLD premier Borbidge’s 1996 UN deal
  • 16:10 – Howard-Beattie really ramped it up in 2004
  • 21:00 – Every part of farming is now regulated
  • 24:00 – Banks
  • 28:00 – The perfect storm: live exports ban, financial crisis, high Aussie dollar & drought
  • 29:00 – Energy prices adding to pain
  • 32:30 – Fair trade not free trade
  • 34:50 – State stole water
  • 38:00 – Fishing industry
  • 39:20 – The pain we’re feeling is from Kyoto 1996. Paris pain yet to come
  • 41:00 – More pain coming with dishonest Qld Property Law “reform”
  • 43:20 – Controlling all facets of business
  • 44:10 – UN controls the bureaucrats
  • 48:40 – CRIMINAL CONVICTION DETAILS While listening across Queensland I’ve found many startling facts and stories that we’ll be sharing. These can be long videos and cover many topics.
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PRESS RELEASE: PM Needs to walk the talk

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PRESS RELEASE – 04 October 2019

Prime Minister needs to walk the talk

Senator Malcolm Roberts welcomes the Prime Minister’s criticism of “unaccountable internationalist bureaucracies” like the United Nations yet doubts Morrison has the character to pull out of their destructive agreements.

“Our Prime Minister has a history talking the talk, but never walking the walk and this speech contradicts his precious actions. I challenge him to now walk the talk,” stated Senator Roberts.

“Since the 1975 UN Lima Declaration, successive Australian Prime Ministers have signed a myriad of damaging agreements, treaties, protocols and declarations that have removed our sovereignty and watered down our democracy,” said Senator Roberts.

While many would describe the United Nations as a ‘toothless tiger’, Senator Roberts added “this doesn’t explain why Australian governments eagerly and enthusiastically adopt the UN’s socialist agenda to the detriment of the Australian people and our future.”

How is it possible that the Prime Minister can claim “Australia’s international engagement will be squarely driven by Australia’s national interests” and yet embrace the Paris Agreement which is making power unaffordable and causing the de-industrialisation of our once prosperous country.

The Prime Minister states “We can never answer to a higher authority than the people of Australia”, but I bet the Prime Minister does not have the gumption to hold a referendum on whether Australia should leave the Paris Climate Agreement because he knows he would lose.

“If the Prime Minister has genuine intent on putting Australia first, he needs to identify the specific actions that must be taken. I await his policy announcement,” Senator Roberts concluded.

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How the Lima Declaration devastates Australian Industries

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Australia became a signatory to the Lima Declaration in 1975, at the Second General Conference of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), held in Lima.

Australia committed to adopting trade measures designed to ensure increased exports from developing countries to developed countries, including to Australia.

These measures have been devastating to Australian industry, agriculture, and the Australian economy in general.

A global approach has not been good for Australian interests when Australian interests must come first.

The major parties have let down the Australian public in many ways. This is just another example of a sell out by the government of the interests of Australians. I support the Amendments as moved by Senator Patrick that would maintain the protections as achieved by the current innovation patent system and am opposed to the removal of this innovation patent system.

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