One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has labelled outgoing Member for Bundamba, Jo-Ann Miller, as Labor’s last honourable Member of the Queensland Parliament.
“Jo-Ann brought accountability to the Queensland parliament and restored integrity to Ipswich following her 14 year fight against corruption that ultimately led to charges against seven former council employees and councillors,” Senator Hanson said.
At the 2017 Queensland state election, Senator Hanson turned down the chance to contest the seat of Bundamba, sighting Mrs Miller’s willingness to work with One Nation on investigations into black lung disease and her fight to save greyhound racing in Ipswich.
“You don’t get rid of good people and Jo-Ann has been one of those good politicians. She’s Labor’s last honourable MP,” Senator Hanson said.
“I will never forget the touching gesture Jo-Ann offered during the 2017 Queensland election, when she gave me a set of booties for my newborn grandson.
“Jo-Ann is one of the few politicians who understands the importance of knowing and listening to her electorate. You don’t get to serve the people for 20 years without doing what they ask of you.”
“I’ve watched the countless years of torturous mind games Jo-Ann has had to put up with from her own party and I don’t blame her for choosing to step down following two decades of service to Bundamba and Ipswich.”
One Nation will be participating in the Bundamba by-election, anticipated to be held on March 28.
“While Jo-Ann will be dearly missed by many in her electorate, we have a local, like-minded candidate who I’m sure Mrs Miller would be proud to see take her place and keep up the fight against Labor’s mega dump plans for Ipswich.”
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Queenslanders
have always been willing to roll up their sleeves, grab a shovel and
wheelbarrow, and help with the cleaning after cyclones, floods and bushfires.
The
latest challenge this summer also requires us to step in to help where we can –
although it might not necessarily mean hard labour, quite the opposite
actually.
The
coronavirus – now renamed covid-19 – is not only a health challenge but has
also turned into a financial challenge for this state, and particularly for
tourism operators in the north.
The
travel bans from China, which are a sensible move to help stop the spread of
the disease, have also stopped the significant finances that usually come into
the regions in the pockets of tourists from Asia.
Places
like Cairns are recording big drops in visitor numbers, but it’s been
noticeable throughout the whole state. With that in mind, I’m asking
Queenslanders who are thinking of taking a holiday to consider holidaying in
your own backyard – particularly regional and North Queensland.
The north
has its obvious beautiful beaches, wonderful resorts and homestays, plenty of
activities, and right now prices on Queensland seafood are very reasonable.
Speak to your travel agent and secure a great deal and let’s keep Queensland’s
tourism industry alive.
For those
on a tighter budget, why not visit family or friends, and enjoy a traditional
“family stay over” in the spare bedroom or “airbed on the floor” holiday – they
often create the best memories anyway!
Our
northern businesses and residents have proved their resilience through cyclones
and floods over the years, but the rest of us have also stepped in to lend
support, and that need has emerged again.
As we
progress through another summer with another unique challenge, I ask readers to
seriously consider spending your holidays throughout Queensland, to help turn
tourism around.
Let’s
prove once again that Queensland can depend on Queenslanders.
Pauline Hanson One Nation leader Senator for Queensland
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When I speak here today I hope that I am going to get across the voice of many Australians. I’ve never been a pretender, and the people of Australia are relying on me to speak openly and honestly about this issue of closing the gap.
Closing the Gap is complete rubbish, and my thoughts are
echoed by many Aboriginals who take the time to meet with me. As far as I’m
concerned, it’s a joke. The call for recognition is just a feel-good
smokescreen that hides the true problems.
The biggest problem facing Aboriginal Australians today is
their own lack of commitment and responsibility to helping themselves.
Closing the Gap is the marketing term used by politicians
and bureaucrats so they can feel good about themselves and get in front of TV
cameras and pretend they’re doing something to lift remote First Nations people
out of their self-perpetuating hell holes.
Most Australians know that tens of billions of dollars are
spent each year to help alter the standard of living between those in remote
Aboriginal communities and even those living in our developed parts of
Australia.
When you spend billions of dollars a year on any group of
people you expect outcomes. Sadly, those billions have gone to the
non-productive, unrepentant Aboriginal industry, not to where it should go, the
grassroots Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is an industry that
has achieved no notable benefits in pulling our First Nations people out of
squalor, domestic violence and poverty.
When I speak here today I represent the quiet Australians,
those Australians who have had a gutful of the billion dollar handouts with
very little to show for them.
Far too many
Aboriginal kids in remote communities at this very moment are starving. They’re
that hungry they’re breaking in to homes not to steal DVD players but to steal
food. Far too many Aboriginal kids are fearful of their alcoholic parents and
family members, who prey on their vulnerability.
Those Aboriginal children in my home state of Queensland, in
towns like Doomadgee, Woorabinda, Aurukun and Yarrabah, remain vulnerable to
sexual assault and a life of petrol and paint sniffing under the current weak
plans by our federal and state governments.
On the other hand, I need to commend the hard work of the
NPA Regional Council, led by Mayor Eddie Newman and by Councillor Michael Bond
from New Mapoon, who took the time to meet with me last year to genuinely speak
about bridging the gap.
Together with their council colleagues in Umagico, Seisia,
Bamaga and Injinoo, they have demonstrated that we can close the gap with work
programs and opportunities for our Queensland Indigenous people—and so too with
the mayor of the Torres Strait Islander Council, Fred Gela, and the Torres
Shire Council mayor, Vonda Malone. What people need to understand about me and
One Nation is that we will always give credit to those Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander groups who are actively striving to better outcomes for their
people, but I’ll also call out those dysfunctional communities.
I spoke about this issue 24 years ago when I was first
elected to the House of Representatives. It wasn’t called Closing the Gap back
then, but again we threw countless billions at the very same problems we’re
talking about today.
What’s changed since I first raised those issues? Nothing.
We still have Aboriginal kids not going to school. The wonderful
air-conditioned school in Doomadgee has around 400 students enrolled, but
they’re barely able to roll-call 50 per cent of students on any given day.
They’ve got just one child in the whole school with a 100 per cent attendance
record.
Whose fault is that?
Lazy parents.
You can’t blame the whites when it’s your own negligence. We
can throw all the money in the world at building these schools, with three
meals a day for $2 to make sure Aboriginal kids are given a wholesome meal
while they’re at school, but, if they don’t turn up, how do they get ahead in
life?
We’re also bribing parents with payments to send their kids
to school, but even that’s not working. Never before have Aboriginal people
been given greater opportunity to get a job. I see it frequently advertised:
‘Only Aboriginals need apply.’
I had a letter sent
to my office last year that confessed to applying for one of these jobs, even
though the writer knew he wasn’t Aboriginal and in fact he wasn’t even
Australian; he was a Pacific islander.
When he was quizzed about his heritage, he made up a story,
saying he was a part of the stolen generation and had no proper knowledge of
his background. What type of mockery does this create?
Many Australians feel we have widened the gap as a result of
Federal Court and High Court decisions. Only yesterday, we undermined our
border security and immigration laws with the decision by our High Court.
We widen the gap by dropping Australia’s national anthem at
football games but are expected to stand and conduct a welcome to country. You
will never close the gap while this parliament continues to hand native title
land claims back to land councils.
The tensions this creates among tribes or mobs is feeding
the division in many of these remote communities. I hear frequently from
Aboriginals who have serious concerns with the behaviour of Noel Pearson and
Jason Yanner, alias Little Boy Murrandoo Yanner.
These people aren’t helping close the gap; they’re simply
riding the gravy train. Incarceration rates of Aboriginals remain alarmingly
high, even with the reluctance from the courts to jail them. The simple truth
is: if you do the crime, you do the time. We expect it of every other
Australian or person who comes to this country.
If you want to close the gap, start taking some
responsibility for your own people. As the old saying goes, you can lead a
horse to water but you can’t make it drink. We’ve provided the schools, it’s
now up to you to send your own kids to school.
We’ve provided the jobs, but it’s up to you to turn up when
you’re rostered on, not when it suits. It’s up to the Aboriginals to stay off
the grog and the drugs.
I will leave you with my final thoughts. Closing the gap
should be about treating all Australians equally and on an individual needs
basis, not one based on race.
These government policies that are based on race are
themselves discriminatory and racist.
Stop feeding the
resentment in this country and you’ll naturally close the gap. And stop playing
the victim if we are to move forward as a united country.
Resentment, hatred and blaming have to stop. We owe this to all future generations, regardless of race or colour.
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The government is well aware children are being indoctrinated through the
curriculum and by teachers, yet they choose to do nothing. This leaves One
Nation to draw attention to the problem and to offer up a solution. It’s the
reason I introduced the Australian Education Legislation Amendment
(Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children) Bill 2020, earlier this week.
In some areas our children
are being taught to accept ideas that are either unproven such as gender
fluidity or are debatable such as catastrophic man-made climate change.
Australian 15-year-olds are falling behind their
counterparts in global tests of literacy and numeracy. The curriculum is
over-crowded. I want our schools to focus on the basics, so our children don’t
leave school with skill levels three years behind their global counterparts.
The authority responsible
for developing the curriculum needs a shake-up and under my proposal they are obliged
to be balanced in their presentation of political, historical and scientific
teaching material.
Under my proposal parents
will have legal rights to challenge inaccurate and biased teachings in the
courts and to have their views taken into account at school. The education
system is in desperate need of accountability.
Every day Australian children are indoctrinated to
believe catastrophic human made climate alarmism.
They are taught near surface temperatures have
increased in recent decades, but there is no examination of colonial state
records between 1855 and 1910, which show it was hotter back then than it is
today.
How many in this chamber know the IPCC’s own Charter
requires it to limit its scientific assessment to human-induced climate change?
Research related to natural climate change is automatically eliminated from
their reports. In short they only collect information to support on side of
climate change.
How many in this chamber know the HadCRUT4 is the
primary global temperature dataset used by the IPCC or that HadCRUT4 created in
1994 was independently audited for the first time in 2017 and found to be
unreliable.
The IPCC only presents one side of the climate
debate, but Australian students need to know the two sides, which is why I want
Australia to adopt a policy similar to the United Kingdom under the UK
Education Act 1996.
The UK Education Act 1996 allowed a parent
named Stuart Dimmock to challenge the use of Al Gore’s climate alarmism
propaganda film in his child’s school curriculum. The Judge found a large
number of claims made in the film could not be substantiated by science, including
the claim made by Al Gore that increasing carbon dioxide levels were causing
increasing temperature.
Secondary schools in England could have shown Great
Global Warming Swindle, a film that suggests scientific opinion on climate
change is influenced by funding and political factors, but they did not because
they only wanted to put one side, their side to students.
Three years after the Judgement in the Inconvenient
Truth Case was published, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) admitted to a shocking scientific fraud concerning the melting of
the Himalayan glaciers.
Just imagine what the Judge would have thought of a
media release from an activist group being passed off as science in the 4th
IPCC Assessment Report.
Sadly, Australian teachers and schools are still
teaching climate science in a way which prevents students meaningfully testing
the veracity of material and forming an independent understanding as to how
reliable it is.
I now want to turn to gender theory indoctrination in
schools. It involves some teachers and schools pushing the idea that a child’s
biological sex does not determine whether you are male or female.
How many transgender children are there in schools
in Australia? According to the 2016 Census, just 57 students under the age of
15 identified as transgender.
How many transgender students do you think there are
in any single school? I will let you do the maths but is something like 57
transgender students divided by 9400 schools.
Despite the small numbers every other student in
Australia is subjected to transgender policies, which are being taken to
extremes.
We all see that in the decision of education
bureaucrats to provide unisex toilets at the Fortitude Valley State Secondary
College.
I understand the school, which opened in 2020, has
now changed its unisex toilet policy and returned to segregated toilets following
parent and student protests.
This time the education system backed down, but I
have no doubt they will wait and try
again later. Legislation needs to be in place to give parents a voice, because
as it stands teachers and schools are not accountable to their students or
their parents.
The decision to force children to use unisex toilets
is just part of larger plan to get children preoccupied with gender issues.
Other policies which aid gender preoccupation
include gender neutral uniforms, library policies to buy gender theory
affirming books, and teachers putting gender theory stories on reading lists.
The preoccupation with gender identity by some
teachers and schools is correlated with an increase in children identifying as
transgender, which is why I say teachers are ‘transgendering’ our children.
In Queensland some teachers are reading stories like
the Gender Fairy to 4 and 5-year-old children. The Gender Fairy shows young
children that they can choose their gender, because their body parts don’t make
them a boy, or a girl.
In Western Australia some 8-year-olds are spending
learning time dressing up as the opposite sex, using a government-supplied box
of dress up clothes. By the time these students are in year 9 they will have a
new vocabulary based on gender diversity theory, and they will have been taught
the art of sex-texting and advanced sexual techniques.
In Queensland, the government has decided that
parents cannot be allowed to know whether the ‘Safe Schools’ program is being
taught in a school their child attends. The Safe Schools Coalition has labelled
Queensland parents ‘homophobic and transphobic’ and says the government’s
decision to keep the program secret from parents is justified. I don’t agree.
Advocates for the Safe Schools program say this
program and others like it promote equality of opportunity and combat bullying
at school. In practice nothing could be further from the truth, because girls
are being bullied into losing their rights.
Students who do not show the required level of
enthusiasm for the LGBTQI+ agenda, including materials like the Genderbread Person, are humiliated and
embarrassed by teachers, according to reports from parents.
School policies in every State and Territory are
based on the belief it would be discriminatory to separate biological males
from girls with whom they share the same gender identity.
Transgender policies in the education system mirror
policies underpinning the laws in Australia where biological sex has been redefined to include chosen gender identity.
These policies provide a small number of transgender people with rights at the
expense of the majority, particularly girls and women.
Policy makers say they want to protect minorities.
There is nothing wrong with that, but when educators protect the rights of a
minority by stripping young girls and boys of their rights, then something is
horribly wrong.
How did we get to the situation where schools are
preoccupied with gender theory issues?
It begins with a belief that our experience is
rooted in our membership of gender group, and membership of a gender group
makes it more likely we will suffer discrimination and oppression. These left
leaning elites see life as one long battle of identity groups for social
justice.
Identity politics causes division and undermines
democracy. We don’t want artificial divisions in society. We want social
cohesion, based on common interests. We need to be proud of our history.
Our children deserve an education that will allow
them to reach their potential and will provide society with a store of
knowledge to be passed from one generation to another.
We want our children educated for life and not
indoctrinated so they can be controlled by others, and we need laws to
guarantee parents’ rights to challenge indoctrination. Parents should give
their consent to the teaching of LGBTQI+ theory.
Parents should not be forced to move their child from a school or home school them to avoid indoctrination at school.
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The Liberals
and Nationals are tearing themselves apart with fragmented views on coal, but
One Nation remains unshakable in supporting the fossil fuel industry and new
coal-fired power stations.
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson has submitted a motion for vote in the Senate that recognises the value of new coal-fired power stations in the creation of jobs, increased competition, lower power prices, and reliable power.
The notice
also supports the proposed Collinsville power station project.
“One Nation
strongly supports coal-fired power and the reliable and affordable electricity
that it generates for Queenslanders, and I urge the Senate to take a stand and
recognise the importance of this industry,” Senator Hanson said.
The move
follows the Coalition’s disjointed and scattered range of views on coal, with
some of its members demanding laser focus on renewables and zero emissions,
while rivals pledge long-term support for coal and coal subsidies.
“The Liberals
and Nationals are all over the place on coal, they should clear the confusion
and get their act together and make a decision on which way they will go, so
that Australians can know who believes what and what their official position
is,” Senator Hanson said.
“One Nation pledges its strong support to the industry and urges the building of more clean coal-fired power stations; it’s a sensible way to generate reliable power that’s affordable and supports the state.”
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Skewed versions of history and science, and sexualised school programs that indoctrinate young children with controversies like gender fluidity, are among the targets of a groundbreaking private Bill to be tabled this week by One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson.
Senator Hanson will table the Private Senator’s Bill on Monday to force any contentious school curricula to be balanced.
“Children are easy targets of all sorts of false and left-leaning teachings and parents have had a gut full of seeing the people they entrust with teaching their children, pushing their own agendas,” Senator Hanson said.
“Children should be given balanced information, including views about political, historic and scientific matters, and they should be very strongly encouraged to think critically about what they are told and learn to make up their own informed views.
“When children graduate from school, they need skills in historic research and scientific thinking, which will support them throughout their lives.”
The Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children Bill would counteract a wide range of issues described as indoctrination of young children: including skewed versions of history taught as fact, controversial sexual programs that teach gender fluidity and realignment to infants, unsubstantiated human-induced climate change, as well as the teachings of so-called “safe” underage sex, sexting, and non-traditional sex.
“The Bill recognises parents across Australia who have concerns about biased teachings, they don’t like the teaching of non-traditional and controversial views that don’t give the full picture; they want to protect and strengthen their children, and this Bill does that,” Senator Hanson said.
“Parents want a sensible curriculum that sets their children up for meaningful, employable futures, without the distraction of false or imbalanced ideology.”
The Bill notes that a growing number of teachers may hold biased views that can be passed on to their students, and ensures that resources that promote a balanced presentation of opposing views on political, historical and scientific issues are provided to the teaching profession.
The Bill also links the payment of Commonwealth education funding to state and territories to the satisfactory teaching of a balanced curriculum and also requires schools to liaise with parents to let them know the extent to which students are provided with a balanced presentation of opposing views.
The Australian Education Legislation Amendment (Prohibiting the Indoctrination of Children) Bill 2020 is expected to be presented to the Senate in the second week of February, 2020.
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One Nation leader Pauline
Hanson is urging the Prime Minister to urgently implement measures to
counteract massive tourism downturns in North Queensland caused by
coronavirus-related flight cancellations from China.
Cairns alone has reported the
cancellation of more than 25,000 tourism experiences and accommodation bookings
due to the flight ban.
The massive drop in visitors
has impacted related businesses like the fishing industry, with trawlers in
Cairns, Innisfail, Townsville, Bowen, Mackay and Gladstone forced to reduce
their catch of fish, crab and crayfish due to fallen demand.
“International tourism is
the lifeblood of parts of Queensland and if there’s a void in overseas
visitors, it’s up to this Government and its state counterparts to help fill the
vacancy with domestic holiday makers,” Senator Hanson said.
“The repercussions are starting
to take effect and I’m concerned for those businesses who’ve been the
unintended victims of the coronavirus.”
Senator Hanson has written to
Mr Morrison, urging a “Stay and Buy Local” tourism campaign to encourage
Australians to holiday locally.
“We’ve seen what slow reactions
from government do to communities following the bush fires, years of drought
and floods,” Senator Hanson said.
“This is a critical moment for
Scott Morrison and his government to ensure he responds immediately to
providing help to promote these tourist towns who’ve been hit by the
coronavirus travel ban.
“Tourism is tough enough throughout the summer months in
North Queensland, let alone immediately after the school holidays.
“The fishing industry of Queensland is just one of those industries who will suffer unless we have a stay and buy local campaign, targeted at domestic tourists.”
Copy of Senator Hanson’s letter to the Prime Minister
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I’m looking forward to my meeting later this month with Australian Olympics Committee president John Coates.
He says the Olympics, should south-east Queensland be
successful in securing the event, will be cost neutral and may even produce a
surplus for Queensland. So, I am seriously waiting in anticipation to see the
facts and figures that will convince me that this is true.
From my readings of the financial facts surrounding past
Olympic Games, there have never been an Olympics that has run to budget. Most
hosts are still paying the debts off for many years afterwards.
In my view, these historic truths make it incredibly risky
and irresponsible to proceed with a bid that may well see the state lumbered
with a massive financial commitment that it realistically cannot cover.
Mr Coates criticised me for using apparently-outdated
research into Olympic Games costings of the past. Well, this research by the
University of Oxford is as recent as having assessed the costings of the most
recent London and Rio Olympics – and both of them failed big financially.
The study showed that hosting the
Summer Olympics costs on average $12.5b (in Australian dollars). History shows
that hosting the games has resulted in an average budget blowout for host
cities of 176%.
Mr Coates repeatedly said on
radio this week that the games would cost $4.5-million. That sounds
extraordinarily ambitious. Reports show that security costs alone, since 9/11,
are between $1-billion and $2-billion.
As I said previously, Queensland has a debt that is now
greater than $90-billion dollars and hosting the Olympics will risk digging
that massive black hole even deeper.
The higher our debt, the more we
will struggle to pay for essential infrastructure and service items. It begs
the questions: would taxpayers rather have their lives improved through new
schools, hospitals and better roads, or a two-week “sugar hit” from an
expensive Olympic Games.
I’m sure Mr Coates will get a lot
of satisfaction from being part of the Olympics, but the satisfaction of
Queensland taxpayers in having a well-run state is actually a much more
important priority. The Olympics will compromise that priority.
Premier Anna Palaszczuk is using
the Games “buzz” as a smoke screen and vote winner in the upcoming election,
but Queensland voters who are tired of poor financial leadership, are not that
stupid.
The Courier-Mail, which also
seems to be backing the Games bid strongly, also needs to think more
responsibly of the costs to Queenslanders.
Pauline Hanson Senator for Queensland Leader of One Nation
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has slammed Minister Ken Wyatt’s suggested formation of a new body to manage services for Aboriginals, fearing a repeat of the inefficiency and corruption that plagued the now-defunct ATSIC.
Senator Hanson said the new body, proposed by the Minister for Indigenous Australians, would not help Aboriginals, would feed racism in Australia by encouraging favouritism of Aboriginals, and would probably degenerate into a “jobs for the boys” setup.
“Haven’t we learned anything from the past? We have too many organisations and Government-funded bodies that are supposed to be devoted to Aboriginal issues – they cost millions of dollars, they underperform, and any new similar body will fall into the same category as ATSIC,” Senator Hanson said.
“These organisations often amount to ‘jobs for the boys’, where they hire friends and relatives, they all get paid well, they have a great time courtesy of the taxpayer, and meantime the people don’t see any benefits.
“This idea of unbalanced and favoured treatment of one group over another group is rubbish; it’s actually encouraging racism in Australia, and it doesn’t help Aboriginals.
“All races in Australia should be treated equally; Government assistance should be allocated according to individual need, not skin colour or racial heritage – anyone who agrees with that logic is the racist one, not me.”
Figures show government spending on Aboriginals is, on average, more than double that spent on non-Aboriginal Australians.
The latest 2015-16 figures from the Productivity Commission show total direct Government spending on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders was estimated to be $33.4 billion – it amounts to $44,886 for each Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian, compared to $22,356 each for non-Indigenous Australians.
Senator Hanson continues to raise concerns about Government support of Aboriginals, ever since highlighting the inequality from when first elected to the Australia Parliament.
“I spoke in my maiden speech about the reverse racism that is promoted and favoured by those who benefit from ‘industries’ that revolve around servicing Aboriginals and other minority groups, and that unfairness still exists today, 24 years later,” Senator Hanson said.
“I called for equality back then and was criticised – mostly from bureaucrats and do-gooders who had most to lose from a fairer system – and it’s the same now, with an extra smattering of rabid lefties who also never miss an opportunity to jump in and feed off the issues that impact those most in need.
“Governments encourage inequality by continuing to shovel handout after handout to Aboriginals, along with land and housing, community infrastructure, which all has proved to be no help at all to get these people up on their own two feet.
“We can’t create another body that will sit at arm’s length from Government, that will struggle to make any positive difference, but burning up mountains of money along the way.
“ATSIC was a complete failure, it cost billions of dollars, including $1.3-billion in its final year, and did very little to improve the lives of Aboriginal people; we can’t have a repeat of that past failure.”
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I have been overwhelmed by the public’s support of my opposition to the planned bid to host the 2032 Olympics by Queensland Labor, the Australian Government and the Queensland LNP.
My sole reasons for this
opposition is that Queensland has a debt in excess of $90-billion dollars and
hosting a blue ribbon event like the Olympics will only risk pushing that debt
even higher.
The higher our debt, the more
we will struggle to pay for essential items like public health services,
education, better water infrastructure, better roads, job creation and the
like.
There’s no argument that the
Olympics is a wonderful spectacle. It is incredibly entertaining to watch the
world’s elite athletes in so many events competing to win a gold medal and for
the honour to be declared the best in the world.
But to host such an event
doesn’t come cheaply.
A study by the University of
Oxford showed that hosting the Summer Olympics costs on average $12.5b (in
Australian dollars). History shows that hosting the Summer Olympics has
resulted in an average budget blowout for host cities of 176%.
There are host cities that have
been paying off Games infrastructure for years after the event after that
infrastructure has gone to rack and ruin.
It is easy to get caught up in
the spectacle and excitement of hosting the Olympics. It would look great on
the resume of any political leader to say, ‘I hosted the Olympics”, but ego and
self-puffery must be put to the side for one moment while we analyse the cost,
both in upfront dollars and the ongoing debts into the future.
I think Annastacia Palaszczuk,
Scott Morrison and Deb Frecklington have proved they have lost touch with the
average Queenslander by blindly chasing what is an expensive, unnecessary and
risky financial gamble like the Olympics.
Every family needs to
prioritise its budget to make sure it has money for the essential household
bills, before considering any lavish luxury spending. The Queensland and
Australian governments need to take the same attitude with the Olympics to
avoid risking shortfalls in more-pressing areas of need.
I hope that Queensland voters
won’t be mesmerised by the pending excitement of the Olympics, while ignoring
the ongoing cost to taxpayers into the future.
My view is not about being a
spoil-sport, it’s about doing what is right for Queenslanders. A better future
for Queensland should be a higher priority than the risky two-week “sugar hit”
that may come from the Olympic Games.
Kind regards Pauline Hanson Senator for Queensland Leader of One Nation
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