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One Nation Turns Its Back on ‘Welcome to Country’

From 2GB: One Nation has staged a protest against Welcome to Country. Party members turned their backs during the ceremony.

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Transcript

Ben Fordham: There’s been some tense scenes on the first day of federal parliament. One Nation has staged a silent protest during a welcome/acknowledgement in the Senate involving Indigenous Australians. Pauline Hanson and three of her party colleagues turned their backs and the One Nation leader says – our whole team has made it clear, we’ve had enough of being told we don’t belong in our own country. Now it’s not the first time Pauline has done this but it is the first time her long time colleague Malcolm Roberts has decided to take part and he’s on the line right now. Malcolm Roberts, good morning to you.

Malcolm ROBERTS: Good morning Ben. How are things?

Ben Fordham: Pretty good. Thank you so much for joining us. So, why did you join in with the protest yesterday?

Malcolm ROBERTS: Well our constituents Ben, across Australia have had a gutful. They’ve had enough of being welcomed to their own country and secondly and very importantly, we care for Aboriginals and what’s happening with these token services, token ceremonies is that they’re ignoring the real plight of Aboriginals which is real and we care about that. And we just listen to our constituents and our constituents have said both those messages.

Ben Fordham: Any reactions from some of your parliamentary colleagues in there? From the other parties?

Malcolm ROBERTS: No. No, not at all. They probably didn’t even realise it had happened.

Ben Fordham: I reckon there is a time and a place for these things and if there was a time and if there was a place it would be on the opening day of parliament, but you’ve obviously got a stronger view than me. You don’t think there’s any time, any place to have an Indigenous acknowledgement?

Malcolm ROBERTS: Not an acknowledgement of country Ben. I went to Yarralumba, the Governor-General’s residence on Sunday for a family day and we got a lecture, the Governor-General handed it over to the Indigenous – the aboriginal person and we got a lecture for ten minutes and the fact is that our sovereignty, there was never any sovereignty that had to be ceded. And then on Tuesday, we got four times a welcome to country or acknowledgement of country. The Ecumenical Church Service in the church started with that acknowledgement of country and then we had a welcome to country event and then we had the Governor-General opening parliament giving a welcoming ceremony and then we had the start of the Senate and that’s when we said “that’s enough, that’s it, we’ve had enough” and the President was appointed and she started the Senate with a welcome to country or acknowledgement of country. And Ben it gets ridiculous. I was at a conference in Mackay in Central Queensland and we had a speaker on a video tele-conference – she gave an acknowledge to the people of Canberra and to the people of Mackay. I mean this is crazy!

Ben Fordham: We revealed just on Monday that a daycare centre in Sydney where toddlers are being told they have to do a acknowledgement or a welcome at the start of the day.

Malcolm ROBERTS: Yeah it’s just – it perpetuates division and diverts the real care away from needy and deserving aboriginals Ben. But it also fractures and indoctrinates people. There’s plenty to celebrate in every culture but we don’t have to be welcomed to our own country every day and especially in Kindy. Come on!

Ben Fordham: Is this something that you’re going to be doing again in the future?

Malcolm ROBERTS: Yes. Every day.

Ben Fordham: What, do they do it every day though? Is there a welcome or acknowledgement at the start of every day?

Malcolm ROBERTS: Yes, there is. In the Senate …

Ben Fordham: Every day?

Malcolm ROBERTS: Every day, mate. That’s what I’m talking about. Every day. It start with an acknowledgement to country and then we go onto the prayers. And then we get on with business. So, it’s not needed. We’ve got three flags in the Senate …

Ben Fordham: So there were calls about a year or so ago for people to boo during welcome to country ceremonies at the AFL and I came out at the time and said absolutely not. I mean you’ve got to think about the poor person whose been given the responsibility of getting up there and doing the welcome. It’s not their call that they’re doing it and it’s not fair to do that to people so this is a silent protest and Malcolm Roberts is saying that they do the acknowledgment at the start of every single sitting day and that’s what we’re talking about when we’re saying this is overdone, it’s an overload, which is why some people are saying “enough is enough”.

July 24, 2025/6 Comments/by Senator Malcolm Roberts

Australians Said No!

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What we suspected all along about The Voice to Parliament …

When Australians rejected the Voice to Parliament, they were not saying ‘No’ to a single referendum question – it was ‘No’ to a broad activist ideology seeking to entrench racial privilege into democracy.

Australians were deeply offended by the push to create treaties between Australians.

They were horrified by the suggestion that taxation would become a matter of skin colour.

And they remain furious about efforts to erase Australian history and have ancestral stories brutalised by so-called ‘Truth-Telling’ commissions.

The experiences of our pioneers, convicts, and free settlers – the ancestors of so many Australians – have been deliberately and maliciously twisted with the full authority of state governments who see the past as a tool to implement vile racial movements which, ultimately, desire land and money that belong to all Australians.

Remember when ‘Yes’ proponents of the Voice promised their demands would be ‘mild’?

Racism is never mild. It is corrosive.

Western Australia has authorised an $85,000 per person ‘reconciliation payment’ for Aboriginal people. A payment that takes money off people who were never perpetrators and hands it to another group who were never victims.

This is not equality.

How many national parks, beaches, mountains, rivers, and forests have a racial lock on the gate?

We are seeing this in Victoria where the Jacinta Allan Labor government has ignored the voice of Victorians and pushed ahead with a Voice-like entity known as the First People’s Assembly – a body set up to negotiate a Treaty.

This month, the Yoorrook Justice Commission handed down 100 recommendations to the government, each more appalling than the last.

Many of these demand public money, resources, and power.

They ask that racial priority be given for housing, health, government contracts, and jobs. Widespread compensation, reparations, and tax relief is being sought for Aboriginals.

The recommendations are divisive and discriminatory suggesting that Aboriginal people should be treated differently from other Australians.

The Report says that the Victorian government must establish income streams based on land, water, and other natural resources to benefit self-determination and other First Peoples-led initiatives and to seek access to a portion of government revenues.

Victoria will soon have streets of families treated differently by the state government and local council based purely on how they look.

Living side-by-side, born under the same sun, and yet deemed unequal.

This is what people voted against.

One Nation does not support a bottomless money pit approach to perpetuate a victim mentality for Aboriginals and a permanent guilt trip to be imposed on the rest of Australia.

One Nation supports equitable access to all the benefits available to all Australians which should not discriminate based on a person’s race or faith.

We are all of One Nation.

Revealed! by Senator Malcolm Roberts

What we suspected all along about The Voice to Parliament

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July 14, 2025/3 Comments/by Senator Malcolm Roberts