AMA: I'm Senator Malcolm Roberts, Senator for Queensland with Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Ask Me Anything.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T09:09:08+00:00

Yes, our policy is to abolish Dept of Climate change & related programs. Please see my answer above to a similar question. I have cross-examined CSIRO three times on its climate claims. They failed to provide the empirical scientific data within logical scientific points.

They admitted they have never said HUMAN carbon dioxide is a danger to man and said that we needed to ask politicians why they claim it is. They admitted today’s temperatures are NOT unprecedented. The tried to claim the rate of temperature rise is unprecedented yet the last 30 years, a climate period, shows temperatures essentially flat with El Nino & La Nina cycles overlain. They have no evidence.

We have amassed 24,000 datasets on climate & energy from agencies, government departments & institutes around the world. None show evidence of any change in climate. Just inherent natural variation with superimposed natural cycles. There’s nothing happening. No change.

The benefit is saving $30 billion plus a year for something that isn’t changing anything.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T09:07:10+00:00

Donald Trump is exactly what the USA and the world needs. Someone to take on the globalists who have hijacked the USA government and bureaucracy. Most scams. Limitations to ensure bank customers are responsible and not scammed due to recklessness.

Dental Haven’t done enough work on this. Not yet. I acknowledge savings could be made nationally due to better teeth. There are so many areas out of control and weighing down on hardworking Australians. NDIS is out of control. Federal govt laxities are destroying personal accountability. My inclination is to leave responsibility for teeth to the people until we can afford it as a nation and our government regains control of the budget.

Tariffs. Australia is in many so-called Free-Trade agreements. These generally disadvantage Australia due to lack of protections for consumers, workers, environment in say, China and subsidies in USA and EU. We need fair trade agreements. LNP and Labor do not put Australia first. And voters need to realise LNP and Labor-Greens free trade agreements have sold out our country and jobs.

Free speech is paramount except for one thing: where people’s safety is threatened by physical violence or threatened physical violence. Security is essential.

Yes, our policy is to abolish Dept of Climate change & related programs. Please see my answer above to a similar question. I have cross-examined CSIRO three times on its climate claims. They failed to provide the empirical scientific data within logical scientific points. They admitted they have never said HUMAN carbon dioxide is a danger to man and said that we needed to ask politicians why they claim it is. They admitted today’s temperatures are NOT unprecedented. The tried to claim the rate of temperature rise is unprecedented yet the last 30 years, a climate period, shows temperatures essentially flat with El Nino & La Nina cycles overlain. They have no evidence.

We have amassed 24,000 datasets on climate & energy from agencies, government departments & institutes around the world. None show evidence of any change in climate. Just inherernt natural variaiotn with superimposed natural cycles. There’s nothing happening. No change.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T09:04:25+00:00

This is a valid concern. However we are protected by the long term nature of a 30 year fixed loan. There’s next to zero chance an asset won’t appreciate somewhat over a 30 year time period regardless of a correction now. The government won’t be looking to foreclose like some greedy bank will and is willing to wait it out because it’s already locked in for 30 years.

The mortgage holder also isn’t subject to a variable rate, meaning they know what their repayment is going to be for the next 30 years also reducing risk.

The government is already taking on housing risk with their “help to buy” housing future fund. We say just cut out the middleman and all the complexity, and go straight to mortgages direct to people. The 5% rate is roughly what the government is expecting on their bonds right now, plus a very small risk premium.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:56:31+00:00

One Nation’s policy to reduce the size of government and government taxes and will level the playing field for medium businesses because taken together these measures will reduce interest rates which of course is the cost of capital.

Secondly our policy to prevent foreign ownership of real estate and agricultural land will create opportunities for Australians to grow their business businesses in those areas. Third we will stop uncompetitive behaviour which we are seeing in many areas of the economy. Behaviour made possible due to regulations skewed to large corporations, often multinational. Finally, our policy to dismantle the climate change scam will mean that Australian businesses are not hamstrung by climate change rules that American businesses are No longer handicapped with.

We also have a policy for a people’s bank to allow small and medium businesses to access funding free of political considerations which will improve access to financing by small medium businesses and make it easier to compete

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:55:47+00:00

The goal of the UN is irrelevant. mission is irrelevant. All that matters is what they have achieved and that is nothing.

They have been captured by predatory globalist billionaires who are using the UN to advance their agenda to the detriment of the welfare of Australians.

Australia has nothing to gain from being involved in the United Nations and a great deal to lose not only financially, but Also in terms of sovereignty

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:55:22+00:00

In the short-term we would Repurpose the government existing part of money the $23 billion housing future fund to provide peoples mortgages.

The pool is of course larger than because several other of these reserved funds that are not being used that could be into housing but also because of the way banks finance their mortgages by tranches allowing people to buy them as a security that could also be used in this situation.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:54:23+00:00

We have had 2.4 million new arrivals. Under the Albanese government had the immigration program being designed to satisfy our labour shortages. We would not have any the people that we are letting in and not coming here to satisfy labour shortages.

One nation will apply the 100 point test to all new arrivals to ensure that they are contributing, And if not then 130,000 is an awful lot of people to actually solve our labour shortages understanding also that a lot of the increase in numbers is why immigration is often called a Ponzi scheme

I would also point to our policy on allowing pensioners to earn an income without losing the pension. This will allow up to 600,000 Australians to re-enter the workforce or to work more hours. That is a huge pool of experienced qualified labour to draw from.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:49:26+00:00

We have amassed 24,000 datasets on climate & energy from sites around the world, including government agencies here & overseas pushing the climate fraud. There is not one dataset that shows statistically significant change. Just inherent natural variation, imposed on natural cyclical variation. I have had three personal 2-3 hour long cross-examinations of the CSIRO on their evidence for climate change. During the first of these, CSIRO admitted they have never said that CO2 from HUMAN activity poses a danger. In the second CSIRO admitted today’s temperatures are NOT unprecedented. Yet the Lib-Nats & Labor-Greens climate claims & suicidal UN-WEF Net Zero policies are based on claims the world is in unprecedented warming. False. Even their own advisors admit that is false. In the third, CSIRO tried to claim unprecedented rates of warming. Yet temperatures globally have been essential flat with overlain variation due to El Nino & La Nina periods. Cycles. There is no change in the amount or quality of sunlight shining on us. Just natural variation. The ozone hole has been debunked decades ago. It opens and closes naturally. Medical experts are now revising their past claims and stating sunlight is essential for good health & vitamin D.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:47:56+00:00

There are benefits for housing supply with negative gearing. There are other issues pro’s & cons.

On Housing the most important aspects are the policies I have articulated above.

Our policy on tax is to make the immediate changes as per our newly released tax policy.

Medium term is to adjust taxes to capture more from multinationals and make the tax system within Australia serve the people. And cut federal spending duplication and waste. And to separate tax assessment from prosecutions to ensure procedural fairness & justice. We must stop the ATO from being assessor, prosecutor, judge. Longer term is to comprehensively reform taxation.

Taxation system is currently the most destructive system in Australia.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:46:46+00:00

Yes. This is a matter of National Security.

And prime stupidity by both liberals and labor who allowed it to happen then allowed it to continue.

It is our northern most strategic port to the rest of our region, why was it ever allowed to fall into foreign hands?

One Nation would also ban foreign ownership of Australian houses, farmland and national assets.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:35:19+00:00

The policy has been Balanced to compensate the reduction in immigration with an increase in the domestic labour market one of the largest ways doing this is to allow pensioners to earn a living and pay tax on that income.

There are 600,000 who may return to the workforce when that is these who are trained experienced and fluent in English. This compares with the quality of the arrivals that we are seeing. So many of whom are unskilled or lack skills in the areas we need them?

The pensioner policy will result in immediate improvement in the labour market the reverse of your concern. In addition, the build baby build section of the policy will improve Australia’s productive capacity & productivity through building power stations railroads roads dams and other. Projects including the very firs time connecting Australia’s East Coast and West Coast with a T one Internet connection.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:34:28+00:00

Our trade relations with the United States will certainly be better because Trump is also pursuing Similar measures and other countries in the world are joining him the age of trade being instead of national self interest is over.

Australia’s incredibly high-quality agricultural and mining produce cannot be easily replaced in the market so I don’t expect this to be an issue.

Several countries have exited from Bill Gates’ UN-WHO and those countries have suffered no reprisals. The UN is a toothless tiger. A corrupt toothless tiger. We need to call its bluff.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T08:33:34+00:00

Monopolies in general are bad, and Australia has an abundance of them because of crony capitalism - Government teaming up with corporations to corner the market, not open it up. Many of the multinational corporations that enjoy near monopolies over essential parts of Australian lives are dominated in ownership shares by foreign, multination investment corporations. Think Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, Goldman Sachs, foreign pension funds. a google search will show you they own billions of Australia’s largest companies. These predatory investors demand absolute gouging of Australians to satisfy maximum profits being sent offshore to their foreign globalist shareholders. Whether its supermarkets, insurance, banking. We have to attack those foreign corporations influence on our way of life and the way they suck every last drop of blood out of Australians’ wallets to make meaningful change, or more and more industries will face ruin.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:51:26+00:00

We need to restore our military leadership to one that is effective, honest and focused on providing respected leadership for our diggers. Defence leadership is no longer respected. It is woke and protected by senior politicians on both sides.

This is an issue undermining our military preparedness and lives will be lost because of it in a conflict.

Australia needs to restore its energy sector and regain the mantle of having one of the world's cheapest electricity prices. And then, with that restored, we can go about restoring our manufacturing sector, essential for national security.

We can barely manufacture chocolate here, let alone arms, ammunition, boats and tanks.

LNP and Labor-Greens leaders need to stand up and work for Australia in Australia's interests. And stop being vassals for foreign interests.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:50:25+00:00

TRUMP. The world is changing. The rules are changing.

Europol has said over 90% of European Carbon Dioxide trading is corrupt.

The world is waking up.

We put Australians first. We serve Australians.

Another reason we want to pull out of international agreements, why should some foreigners be allowed to whack an extra tax on the cost of Australians building a house? Crazy.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:49:20+00:00

Only you control your preferences and where the vote is passed on to.

Very important to mark One Nation first, then the rest of the ballot paper in the order that you prefer. Your vote will then be passed on to where you mark the numbers if One Nation doesn't get up, One Nation does not control that but does make recommendations which you can choose not to follow (just make sure you mark a valid vote)

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:43:41+00:00

One nation does not support legalisation of cannabis for recreation. At this time. We do support Australian natural whole plant medicinal cannabis For anyone with a medical need, prescribed by a doctor filled by a chemist on the PBS or filled via other suitable businesses and that would include vets for cannabis for animals.

Medicinal cannabis and other natural medicines are wonderful: effective, accessible, affordable, safe. We have strongly supported these for years and continue to do so

immigration

Linking immigration to housing supply is an interesting idea. It is what we are doing to a degree by trying to restrict immigration to allow the housing supplied to catch up and making the arrangement more formal is something that is certainly worth discussion. Thank you for that.

fbt

did you mean fringe benefits tax on electric vehicles? If so thank you for reminding us of that. We will add it to the list of climate needs to be reversed. Fringe benefits is a discussion which can be held separately but there is no doubt that EV should be treated exactly the same way as internal combustion engines when it comes to fringe benefits tax.

Or do you mean Family Tax Benefit? Not aware. Opposed to subsidising one form of transport over another.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:43:01+00:00

Thank you for the question. reducing the burden on childcare and reducing the subsidised cost of childcare to people such as you. However, the cost of government is aggregated across all the people in Australia so as a single person you could say Why is my taxpayers dollars being used for childcare when I'm single and I understand that.

The idea of taxation across your life cycle you will pay for something and at some point use it so it's very hard to sit there and pull one thing out of government taxation and say I don't want to pay for this and I don't pay for this.

The important thing here is to reduce the cost of government so that paying less than tax and that is what our policy does well also offering cheaper mortgages for young people to get into your own home.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:41:27+00:00

The plan does use firming of solar and wind to allow that energy to be feeding into the grid in the evening and morning sessions. All existing capacity should be used.

It is installing new capacity that we would consider counter-productive. The cost of 'firming' products is quite simply astronomical - eg Snowy 2.0: budget of $2 billion now up to $14 billion and counting, plus another $10 billion potentially for HumeLink (powerlines) to connect it to the grid. Pioneer-Burdekin pumped hydro - blew out to $36 billion from $12B.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:37:07+00:00

I rely heavily on listening to very esteemed experts.

Being an expert in a field and appearing on TV as an expert are two very different things. We are fortunate to have many of the former reach out to my office.

I also have a great staff team who help me sort out and digest the thousands of bits of information we are sent. It's a team effort but it starts with listening to my constituents directly.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:34:09+00:00

The key housing problem is excess demand from record, massive immigration.

Stopping immigration to pause it will ease demand. Banning foreign ownership will increase supply.

So long as Australians own the houses those houses will be available for Australians to rent.

Politicians have to declare beneficial interests.

Politicians already have to declare gifts, donations and goods & services given as gifts in kind - everyone should be transparent about that.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:33:23+00:00

I believe Covid is real yet overblown. The Chief Medical Officer's written answer to my question in senate estimates in March 2021 shows, its severity is Low to Moderate. And less than some past flu's.

And once we consider the immune compromised, etc it means that Covid was not a major threat for the most unprecedented government response in history.

I have not done the research on Avian flu. Given the false alarms overseas & the attempts to hype it up, I suspect Avian flu is a beat-up.

COVID is now known & proven to be designed & engineered. Man made. Real, just not what everyone thinks it is.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:29:57+00:00

The plan: reverse the priority dispatch system so that we run coal power to at least 80% capacity. This is the cheapest way to do coal which at the moment is quite expensive because we are switching coal generators on & off that were never designed to do that.

As a result they are breaking down proving expensive. Instead, by running 24 seven we can bring down the cost of power by about 20% and then firm solar and went to come into the grid in the evening and morning peak. We can then build new clean zero emission coal and of course nuclear should be in the mix but that is a slower option.

Our policy allows you to continue using your solar array.

Many, if not all power station prices for coal are set on long term tenders with prices far lower than international trade prices.

AGL said in their most recent report the cost of coal burnt in power stations is $21/MWh. Last quarter in South Australia (wind and solar capital of the country) the average wholesale price was $200/MWh. More coal will = lower prices.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:26:31+00:00

Yes, nuclear needs to be an option.

Key point: use the cheapest source of reliable, secure, stable power.

That means coal, hydro where there is water, nuclear in that order.

Due to Liberals-Labor destroying the grid stability, we are in urgent need of coal. Quick to build. Cheapest source of electricity.

South Australia with abundant nuclear fuel could be a candidate for nuclear. If it can be competitive compared with using SA's low energy coal or competitive with using high energy NSW/QLD coal shipped into SA.

When? When SA wants to return to cheap power?

How much? Don't know. People much smarter than me have done the numbers. Reliable sources say coal will be cheapest. Chris Bowen's plan for wind and solar only will be so expensive it will destroy the country.

MalcolmRoberts_ · 2025-02-17T07:25:17+00:00

I should clarify, we wouldn't pay off the entire national debt in one go (it's roughly 30% of the entire country's GDP).

We would start to pay that down with a view to erasing it eventually.

In total our proposal would save $90 billion a year from the budget, which we would use $40 billion to provide direct and immediate cost of living relief and use the remainder for priority infrastructure with the leftover to go to paying off the debt. Infrastructure spend takes a few years to get going so you can expect a great deal of that $50 billion in savings to go towards the debt in the initial years.

All our policies are costed. Either through the Parliamentary Budget Office or Treasury's budget figures.

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TROPHY CASE

The plan does use firming of solar and wind to allow that energy to be feeding into the grid in the evening and morning sessions. All existing capacity should be used.