WHY WE HAVE TO STAY TOUGH ON BORDERS

By One Nation Leader Senator Pauline Hanson

There is no doubt that if you’ve been born in Australia, you’ve won life’s lottery.

But the right to Australian citizenship by birth only applies if at least one parent is an Australian Citizen or a permanent resident at the time of your birth.

In the case of two Sri Lankan Tamils who arrived in Australia on board illegal people smuggler boats in 2012 and 2014, and coined ‘The Biloela Family’ - Government authorities, along with Federal and High Court Judges have found on multiple occasions that the couple are not genuine refugees.

Therefore, the law clearly states that their children are not entitled to Australian citizenship and the family should be returned to their home country of Sri Lanka.

The United States and New Zealand have also rejected the family’s prospects of resettlement abroad due to the court's findings.

The false hope given to the Murugappan family has been encouraged by activist lawyers who have used them as political pawns for almost a decade.

If the family had simply accepted the Federal and High Court decisions and returned to their homeland - they could have applied for a Skilled Work Visa and been on a path to permanent residency a whole lot sooner.

Activists who continue to use the family’s young children, who were born following their parents’ illegal arrival in Australia, only give rise to the notion of segregation of men and women placed in detention.

No one enjoys keeping children in detention, but we should not allow the judgment of authorities to be clouded by children born following the unlawful actions of their parents.

The same rule of law applies to those deported under the Government’s rigid stance on non-Australian citizens who commit serious crimes. If criminals have young children in the country, they too must leave. No questions asked.

Australian’s demand an orderly managed system of who comes to this country, and any weakness in upholding our stringent immigration laws undermines the value of Australian citizenship and permanent residency.

I make no apologies for my stance on protecting Australian borders. And while the people of Queensland, particularly regional Queensland continue to support me, my campaign to sustain strong border control will never end.

GOVERNMENT MINISTERS CROSS THE FLOOR BLOCK ONE NATION MOTION TO PROTECT CHILDREN FROM IRREVERSIBLE TRANSGENDER SURGERY

In a move that shocked many Australians, 6 Government Senators, including former education minister and current leader of the Senate Simon Birmingham, crossed the floor to side with Labor, Senator Jacqui Lambie and the Greens to vote down a One Nation motion to protect Australian children from irreversible transgender treatments.

The Government granted their Senators a conscience vote on the motion brought by One Nation Senator Roberts and it is the first conscience vote on a motion since 1987.

 “The Liberals call themselves conservatives and today we have seen five liberal senators, including ministers, cross the floor to support Australian children accessing irreversible treatments and surgery,” Senator Roberts said.

“My motion was about protecting children from these irreversible treatments at a time when a therapeutic pathway should take precedence over a medical pathway.

“It’s a travesty when we let children under 16 years have double mastectomies in Australia.”

Sweden’s leading gender clinic has recently ended routine treatment of children with puberty blockers and hormonal drugs citing concerns around cancer and infertility. In Australia children as young as 10 years of age have been prescribed puberty blockers.

“It’s a sad day for all Liberal voters when their leader in the Senate, Simon Birmingham, crosses the floor and aligns himself with Labor and the Greens against the true conservatives in his party,” Senator Roberts said

 “Adolescence is a confusing time, and this is not the time for our children to make irreversible life changing decisions.”

“It is no wonder that the Australian curriculum is loaded with anti-humanist, ideological rubbish when the former Minister for Education voted against my motion to protect children.

“Shame on him,”
 

You can view Alan Jones' interview with Senator Roberts below!

DEBT THE BIG WINNER IN THIS YEAR’S QLD BUDGET – AGAIN!

By One Nation Member For Mirani Stephen Andrew

Well, centuries of “expert opinion” on sound economic management, were tossed overboard this week, as Queensland’s Treasurer, Cameron Dick announced that - contrary to previously accepted wisdom on the subject - Debt is no longer a dirty word.

Which is lucky really, because Queensland is absolutely drowning in the stuff! 

Budget figures show Qld’s total debt will jump from an estimated $95.8 bn this year to $106.3bn in 2021-22, before hitting $127.3bn in 2024-25.

The interest bill on all this debt will reach $3.4 billion a year by 2024 – provided RBA doesn’t lift its interest rate a smidgeon from its current low of 0.1%.

A risky assumption you might have thought, but there it is.

Of course, you really have to hunt around in the budget documents to find these figures, but they are all there – buried away at the back.

Nowadays, the Treasurer prefers to talk in terms of NET debt and then, only for the General Government Sector. 

$25 billion, sounds so much more manageable – affordable even – as long as you don’t look too closely.

All this debt is being matched by a ‘perfect storm' of rapidly sinking Government revenues, from GST takings to State Royalties, especially from the steep decline in the State’s coal exports.

Oil revenues also fell and there was a sharp drop in LNG royalties as well. 

Overall, QLD exports fell 28.4% between April 2020 and April 2021, with the largest falls seen being for ‘mineral fuels’ and ‘coal’ - both of which fell a whopping 38.1% from April 2020.

Pretty much the only thing that seems to be driving “growth” in Queensland right now, are massive injections of public debt and a flood of migration from other states – that’s it!

None of it has anything to do with real growth or productivity happening in the real economy.

Which brings me to the big losers in this year’s Budget - Mining, Agriculture, Small Business and Tourism.

You know, the industries that Queensland relies on – the ones that hold the key to lifting the State out of its debt quagmire and putting it back on the real road to recovery.

It seems so obvious, but I will say it again, the Government should have used all that debt to support and safeguard these industries - the backbone of our economy, and the ones who have always stood up for Queensland in its hour of need and would again, given half a chance.