This is why people will vote one nation though, because the current system is not equal to all, it IS divisive. One nation want to change that and live under one banner; one nation! Where Everyone will be treated equal.

Good question Malcolm. We should all be being treated equal, not more for one than the other. Let's step into today, and be united as ALL Australians and not them and us. How are any of us able to get along as equals if we aren't treated as such.

This implies that only Indigenous people contribute to Indigenous art. Anyone can do an Indigenous art project. I think getting only 10% is about right, to be honest. The ABS bases its percentage on the Indigenous people who tick the box in the census. Not all Indigenous people tick the box, but many distant relations still engage in art and other cultural activities. Maybe as a politician you should have a better understanding of the country you claim to represent.

What percentage are actually First Nations orgs? These investments may also be going to non First Nation orgs

Well I am of Aboriginal descendant. From Perth WA and down to the South West of WA...dot painting only came about in the late 1980s when a few of the boys were imprisoned, this is not a traditional art style for all aboriginal people but only certain groups, definitely not from the Southern region of Western Australia...✌️...

The equality doesn’t exist here. There are certain categories that aren’t even happy when they are more equal than everyone else

So we can have more crap dot paintings.

SENSUS , tick the box, we want some paint brushes

You say there should be equality but you keep labelling us and separating us into a box of being undeserving because we are Aboriginal. If you just say we are Australians and we get grants to do projects can it be of our Culture and our art or No we aren’t allowed to display this and it has to die out? If so then why are there different categories within the creative industry and they can get grants but we can’t because we are Aboriginal? Make it make sense.

10%? So, what's the real problem here Malcolm.

Perhaps it recognises returns on investment. Our indigenous art is sought out by collectors from around the world. Unfortunately, quite a few artists have been ripped off by art dealers so government assistance to streamline the link from artist to buyers is a positive thing.

they are not first nations they are aboriginal in my opinion

If we want to achieve equity, it means that at times equality needs to be shelved. It is not really a difficult concept to grasp! But then again, for some it is obviously beyond them🤪

Well come on down and Show ME the $37,000,000.00 million dollar work of art! Piece of art! I wanna see it.............please!!

All the palms that need greasing

Hmmmm, so 90% goes to non-indigenous art projects

I’m keen to know where the promoting is happening at that cost as I seen stuff all. Or does that simply mean purchasing

Those organisations aren't even represented by first nation people... they're a hoax... just ask Steve Dimopoulos MP in Victoria who rorted taxpayer funds to proposed MTB organisations that posed as indigenous... I had no idea MTBs were ridden thousands of years ago or on any rock carvings... do you?

Location, expense, importance of the artwork to the nation.

This is such a strange way to read an arts budget. Aboriginal Australians are about 3.8% of the population, therefore Aboriginal art should get about 3.8% of arts funding? By that logic, every art form should be funded according to how many Australians personally belong to that group. That’s not how arts funding works. First Nations art also covers culture, heritage, language and traditions that exist nowhere else in the world. Funding decisions are based on projects, cultural value and need, not a population pie chart. Malcolm has found a percentage, divided it by another percentage, and apparently decided that’s an argument.

For 3% of the population they get a big portion of funding than the rest of us😡

Keep up your good work Malcolm.

Absolutely ridiculous. For stone Age art.

Why is the government funding art? I don’t see that as a role of government.

AS i'm paying for this funding( My taxes, our), ask me were the funding should go.you suits wont like my answer but i reckon i would have a strong backing as to were it should go.. well asked Senator Malcolm Roberts.

Yes, that’s what we used to call a half baked poem that’s how I got into Australia

New Zealand citizens have always had residency rights in australia as far as I am aware, australian citizens have the same rights in new zealand

Your statement is broadly correct , but with some important clarifications. Since 1 July 2023, New Zealand citizens who hold a Special Category Visa (subclass 444) can apply directly for Australian citizenship after four years of residence, without first becoming permanent residents. However, they must still meet residency, absence, character, and test requirements

Not surprising! " Data published by Stats NZ and the OECD International Migration Outlook shows that roughly 8 out of 9 incoming migrants arrive on a non-New Zealand passport. The primary drivers of this growth include:India: Represents the strongest growing country of origin, leading both in overall arrivals and international student/worker visas.China: Continues to be a primary source for both skilled migrants and temporary visa holders.The Philippines: Heavily represented in healthcare, construction, and trade sectors.United Kingdom & South Africa: Remain the top traditional, English-speaking source countries for skilled migration".

Is that a reciprocal arrangement ?

Does minister not differentiate between repatriation and immigration?

The answer to that question is New Zealand citizens is not easy although New Zealand has alot more saying or treaty with alot of Polynesian neighbours, Samoa Fiji Tonga etc. When you apply for pr in NZ its not easy from PR to Citizenship it can take up to 6years. Then most move to Australia for better life and again we have to stay here for 4 years before we are qualified to apply for citizenship. It's not an easy process.

Fyi both NZ and Fiji have always been stepping stones into Australia.

Wow! If ever there was a GOTCHA MOMENT, then this has to be it. What are these people in these positions, these people are hopeless. We are paying them. Now we see what the Govt is up to. Thanks Senator Malcolm Roberts. You have just proved how badly Australia is being run.

As long as nz born kiwis aren't punished, then fair enough. But as a nz born kiwi who has called australia home for 19 years, I deserve to have citizenship in both countries! Ive worked hard since 13 years old in australia & as a mid 30s adult I have children & a family here in australia.

I was an immigrant to NZ and now living in Australia. Malcolm is correct, it’s a well known back door. It was easier to arrive to NZ in 2015 than Australia

New zealand has been a stepping stone into Australia for many years.

I know several people who went via NZ with a sole purpose of getting entry into and citizenship in Australia. All were doctors so were welcome, but all said it was cheaper and easier than direct application to Australia.

I worked with someone the whole family came from south Africa to New Zealand and then used it to come to Australia

That is such an easy question to answer, if they were doing their job properly, they should know that answer , at a drop of a hat.

If you have ever tried to get citizenship or even a temporary work permit in an Asian country (for example) you have to enter a lengthy process to gain approval including for some countries a police check and it matters not what your country nationality may be. Countries need to protect their citizens and ensure that new migrants meet certain criteria to enable an easy assimilation process with sincere intentions. Entry through a back door denigrates those who came in via the regulated channel. Follow due process, meet the rquirements, and join us in the free country!

Temporary visa to stay permanently makes it a permanent visa in my book. So they are not obliged to apply for citizenship and that right there makes it unfair to others. NZ is not the eighth state of Australia.

Uhhhh the Trans Tasman Travel Agreement has been in place since....checks notes...1973. Did Albo travel back in time to sign it?

All Labor are back-door receivers.

Have to say, when I returned home to Bris from a flight from Shanghai recently; the two people either side of me were Asian (and unknown to each other). I noticed when filling out the immigration card details they each had a New Zealand passport…it’s possible they were tourists but I think they were coming back “home” after being in China.

It's good to see that Winston Peters has started highlighting this back door into Australia. Well done a true New Zealander trying to protect New Zealand's boarders and assisting Australia

How many r on the ndis ??

Workers have been going through NZ since I was an apprentice in the 90s. I got around the, back then standards required in Australia for recognition of over seas skill levels

Family members are exempted from points test and so are nominees being sponsored by their employer.

The only politician that answers the question asked

So no answers… just “oh we’ll investigate and look into this and that”

Lots of “we will” Zero “how” How about Pauline starts with “I will turn up to as many senate estimates hearings as I can” so she can actually get an idea of what really happens with OUR money

We don't need DOGE-style cuts here mate. But it's great that you admit up front that you are coming after health and education as we all suspected.

Leeroy Kazamias but Pauline Hansons Ideas are just Ideas, they can't show to anyone how their ideas will become a policies.

So: - fix the NDIS but not explain how this will happen - call support for closing the gap on indigenous inequity/inequality an industry then shut it down without showing how you will provide culturally-appropriate support - no words for the propaganda in this one. Climate Change department destroying the environment? - the comparative cost of federal education and state education costs is negligible. This is a furphy. Federal level departments ensure consistency and a national strategy. All hot air and no actual explanation on how or what the proposed implications will be.

If anything, education should be federal not state as the differences between even nsw and qld are quite substantial. Even if its not federal run we can at least bring all the states together and have a schooling system that is p pretty much the same across Australia no matter if you're in the outback or inner city. If you tax big corp and our exports properly and it should all be free. Books. Subject levies. Everything. The only things a parent should have to buy is school clothes and food for lunch. They provide everything for kids in schools in remote areas including food already. Should be easy to bring that to the city once they bring in all the proper taxes from our resources

Good timing. Like spending party money on a holiday?? 🤣🤦🤦

Albanese and Lidia Thorpe just ordered copious amounts of pins to stick in their Pauline Hanson Voo Doo dolls 😎

Sensible policies and as a previous penman suggested we need to have a serious look into overseas aid. Much of that ends up as corruption and never reaches those in need.

bit like pawline has u mean lol

So this guy wants the keys to the treasury so he can spend the way he wants. Sonebody inform this guy that Australia follows the Westminster system of government and he needs to win government before he can hold the keys to the treasury.

She is only attacking services we have I agree some polices may need looking at however these services are needed but were are you new polices at changing things nothing

We’ll do it by printing $1, 000, 000 bank notes …

Founding members of the Fabian Society, particularly George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, expressed notable admiration for Islam in the early 20th century, viewing it as a dynamic and socially organized force George Bernard Shaw: Often praised Islam’s practicality and social cohesion. Stating “I believe the whole British Empire will adopt a reformed Mohammedanism before the end of the century.” Shaw and other Fabians viewed Islam as a "collectivist" religion compatible with socialist state control, making it a useful vehicle to undermine Christian individualism and national sovereignty in pursuit of a One World Government. The Fabian Society, controlling the Labour Party, engineered the 1948 British Nationality Act under Clement Attlee to flood Britain with Muslim immigrants.. The goal.. to create a demographic bloc who'd vote for socialist policies and support the dissolution of the nation-state into a UN-led world government.. Fabians patronized Idries Shah and Sufi groups in the 1960s to present a "moderate," non-threatening face of Islam to the British public, facilitating this demographic shift. The rise of prominent British Muslim politicians who are also Fabians or Labour members, such as Sadiq Khan (Mayor of London) and Nazir Ahmed (former Peer), is frequently as evidence of this long-term plan coming to fruition. The 1948 British Nationality Act: designed by Fabian Prime Minister Clement Attlee to grant unrestricted entry to Commonwealth citizens, specifically to import a demographic that would naturally align with socialist collectivism and undermine traditional British sovereignty "Trojan Horse" The Fabians like Roy Jenkins (Home Secretary in 1966) shifted policy from "assimilation" to "multiculturalism" to ensure communities retained distinct religious identities (Islam) rather than integrating,creating a permanent voting bloc opposed to Christian values This bloc was intended to support the 1964 Labour Manifesto's call for world government via the UN, viewing Islam's transnational Ummah as a compatible vehicle for dissolving nation-states. The Fabian Society was instrumental in founding the intellectual and structural framework for the UK’s social services. They orchestrated to import "rape gangs" to advance a world government agenda while seeking to eradicate those opposed to their World government agenda specifically Christians... Many children were raped while in care homes with a blind eye being turned by social workers, many children stolen from loving parents to feed the beast... Wolves don't look out for lambs, they devour them! The below is the curriculum in your public schools from the UN, the Fabian UN has infiltrated schools all over the world.. Not only have they orchestrated the rape but they also orchestrated the mass scale grooming to create vulnerable children at the mercy of those they imported.. The Fabian Society played a foundational role in shaping the UK's public school system, transitioning it from a fragmented, charity-based model to a state-administered education system.. The Fabian model extended globally not through a centralized decree, but through the "permeation" of ideas via education, the British Commonwealth, and the formation of the post-war international order The most effective export mechanism was the London School of Economics (LSE), founded by Fabians Sidney and Beatrice Webb in 1895 www.comprehensivesexualityeducation.org/

Doesn't know what the federal education department does. Not surprising given ON and education don't really go together. Proving once again they are nit a party of governance.

What about the 162 data centres, 15 million litres a day, water for 50-60000 people. AI Everything?

The above mentioned policies , sound fine and dandy to me , hopefully one nation party also...will look into oil 🛢, and on shore processing , I think we are desperately going to need it , based on current war issues abroad 🍊 🇦🇺 🍊

One Nation is the only party to make any sense and a promise of a new and better 💯 Australia 🇦🇺...

Just like Hanson for 30 years....and now Senator Malcolm Roberts

If it was a Labor MP , I'll take it on notice

NDIS set up by the LNP in a manner to fail because of expenses Should be a government department Not privatised

Sounds like a great start 🇦🇺🧡🇦🇺

🤣🤣🤣can’t even provide their financial records 🤡🤡