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Wise words. How could you argue with him?

@PaulineHansonOz Ukmmm, you need a better staffer. Love you. X

Now we import every single car and still impose a luxury car tax on buyers—a tax scheme that was designed to help save the Australian car industry. A big help that was! No wonder the government and Labor continue to reject my private senator's bill which amends the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act and calls on policymakers to ensure that the exploitation of these natural resources is for the benefit of the Australian community. When I investigated how other countries dealt with multinational oil companies around the world, I discovered that Norway had struck the right chord for its citizens, earning $1.5 trillion from its commodities. Australia, on the other hand, last year took a measly $300 million in direct payments for $50 billion worth of gas off the North West Shelf. Meanwhile, Qatar traded slightly less gas than Australia and collected $26 billion in royalties. Can we honestly suggest that successive governments have negotiated the best deals on behalf of Australians when it comes to the resources of our nation? The answer is no. This bill should be the new definition of insanity. While I strongly support fuel security in this nation, One Nation cannot and will not support the waste of $2.3 billion worth of taxpayers' money as a bandaid for the very real problem of fuel security in Australia. Australians will support me on this, because we've lost so much of our asset-making infrastructure over the period of successive governments. I talk of governments that have sold off to foreign multinationals the Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, power plants and lines, and airports, all of which were profitable for the government on behalf of the taxpayers. They have been sold off now and at a cost to the taxpayer. We are going to do exactly the same with this refinery. I said to the government: Buy it. Put in half your money that you're going to hand over to them. We will get absolutely nothing. We will have no skin in the game. We are not going to get anything back from them for a security of six years or, maybe, if we're lucky, nine years. We hear Labor in here criticising the government. We have gone from eight refineries down to two and now they are criticising them because we won't have fuel security. That's exactly right. Yet what are they doing about it? What's the suggestion from Labor? It's only that they are going to support the bill. Where is their succession plan? If they were in government, what would they do about the refineries when this comes to an end? Are we going to still keep propping them up? The idea is that we have security by owning our own refinery. The government did tell me, 'We can't get public servants to run it.' Bloody oath, you wouldn't. You wouldn't want public servants running it, because they can't. They're useless. You'd get people who can run it properly at a profit for the Australian people to give us national security. You don't keep selling it and relying on Asia, because, the way China is positioning themselves in the South China Sea, who knows what's going to happen? We won't be able to provide the fuel that we need ourselves. Get the military to run it, if that be the case. We need oil refineries in our own name and providing our own fuel security. It's not just about jobs. That's exactly why Labor are propping this up at the moment. They don't have any solutions. They don't have any ideas. They are just going along with this and they talk about the jobs. Senator Sheldon stands there talking about poor Tim, asking, 'What am I going to do; where's my job?' Your job can be in having our own oil refinery where we don't expect a company just six or nine years down the track is going to say: 'That's it. We're closed.' They usually hold the government to ransom, saying, 'You've got to pour more money into this.' We did that with the car industry for 20 years. It was half a billion dollars a year for 20 years. And what did that do? Nothing.

5 years ago, do you think I was right? The Senate on 22 June 2021. Senator HANSON (Queensland—Leader of Pauline Hanson's One Nation) (13:07): I rise to speak on the Fuel Security Bill 2021. When I came into the Senate in 2016 I raised the importance of fuel security for all Australians. This and previous governments have continually failed to meet the internationally mandated 90 days stockpile of fuel for the people of this nation. That means this government has put at risk the fuel security of our daily transport needs: our defence, our aviation industry, our mining and our commuter needs. Without this internationally mandated 90-day stockpile of fuel, Australia risks coming to a grinding halt. My concerns were echoed by Senator Jim Molan when he entered the parliament in December 2017. What has happened over the last five years? Nothing. If we go back to the year 2000, Australia had eight refineries that literally met the entire needs of our domestic refined fuel requirements. That is the same year Australia was manufacturing more than 320,000 new cars and over 23,000 commercial vehicles. Fast forward two decades, and Australia's self-sufficiency in the fuel space is going the same way as manufacturing. It's almost dead. Shamefully, in the space of four months, Australian oil refineries in Altona, owned by ExxonMobil, and Kwinana, owned by BP, announced they were closing half of this nation's remaining oil refineries. They suggested the facilities were no longer economically viable. How is that possible? When I looked at the consolidated income statements of each of these oil companies operating in Australia, I saw that each of them is pulling in tens of billions of dollars of revenue each year from Australians. They drill the oil and gas. They send the bulk of it overseas to Asian markets that have cheap labour. Then we're forced to buy it back from foreign markets, where the oil companies have extracted the bulk of the jobs and profits that should belong to Australians. Successive governments have squandered the opportunity to negotiate better deals for Australians off the back of these highly sought-after resources. And here we are today expected to pass legislation that will pay these same multinational oil companies $2.3 billion of taxpayers' money to continue refining activities until 2027 and, if we're lucky, until 2030. Well, I've got some bad news for this government: I'm not going to help pass a bill that takes us down the same path as the car industry, which received billions and billions of taxpayers' money only to close. I make no apologies for looking out for the best interests of Australian taxpayers. If we're going to pay $2.3 billion to secure Australia's fuel supply, the government should buy the Brisbane refinery in Lytton and let it become an asset owned by the Commonwealth. It would be a hell of a lot cheaper, and this government could then claim it has secured our refining capabilities well beyond 2030. John F Kennedy was famous for saying: 'Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.' The truth is this government fears proper negotiations, because multinational companies have walked all over Scott Morrison, just as they did with Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott, Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd. I'll say it again: these overseas corporations come here, they drill and mine our resources, and then they pay little to no taxes. Paying oil refineries $2.3 billion to keep operating in this country is hardly in Australia's best interests. We don't get a single share in these facilities. Instead we hand over the cash and simply kiss it goodbye. Again I remind Labor and the Liberal and National parties what happened to Australia's car industry after they had been given tens of billions of dollars in subsidies. They took the cash and buggered off when it suited them. (1/3)

@AngusTaylorMP @SenSHenderson @PaulineHansonOz how tiresome this must be for you. Remind these idiots again!?

@AngusTaylorMP @SenSHenderson LOL. You need two idiots next to you. Hanson made action.

We've asked Anthony Albanese to immediately halve the fuel tax for 3 months. We've also put forward sensible options to fund this measure. This would provide immediate relief to Australians who are struggling right now.

@Russellhicks27 @Ausbobsmit Panic I hear is only from farmers, can you assist with idiots purchasing diesel where most of us are farmers?

@DisinfoLedger @Ausbobsmit Panic buying doesn't affect companies with the $$ to store their own. It's assholes filling up megalitre containers and dozens of jerry cans that fucked up rural areas.

I'm out of diesel. All the farmers are out of diesel. This is it. We're done for. Albanese and Bowen are directly to blame. This is serious. I promise you. All other countries have diesel, and it averages $1.80 per litre in most countries in the Asia Pacific. But not Australia. Albanese is up to no good. This is crippling.

Direct quote from ACS spokesperson (speaking about the same company who were awarded BOM contract). “The decision to award Accenture the contract came after a comprehensive and competitive procurement process with strong due diligence, including assessing delivery track record… It was determined Accenture would provide the best value for money to the Commonwealth.” So, expect the $16M contract to land somewhere around $35–50 million. Because it won’t be different to what they did the BOM website (that absolutely SUCKS).

The wins come thick and fast in Australia…

@Ausbobsmit I’ve got a 1/4 tank diesel left. Crippling is an understatement.

lmao, I’ve never seen the full video before! 😂

No words.

Here's a real good news story for a Friday.❤️❤️❤️ Dozens of Melburnians will today attend a Funeral in Springvale for a man they've never met.

"Australia is the most diesel-dependent economy in the world... if the shipping channels are cut to our North, we will be on our knees within days." John spoke to @Channel7 last night about Australia's fuel crisis. See link in comments below.

@AlanWil63289568 @Ausbobsmit You made fun of me before. I’m homeless next week remember? I’ve had a business for 15 years: bet you never had one. Bet you take the tax I still pay for providing the nonsense you spread.

@Ausbobsmit Isn't that exactly what you are, an unemployed, full-time protester?

Unemployed professional protesting should be deemed terrorism. Joshua Lees is planning a massive protest this Monday, in Sydney, to celebrate the slaughter of Jews.

@AlanWil63289568 @MRobertsQLD I’ll give you a little more information to you. I sell my house. Settlements now are at 40+ days. So you do have to leave your property for the next. Sleep in your car, until the money comes through. Idiot.

@AlanWil63289568 @MRobertsQLD Are you seriously calling me a girl? I owned my house. The market has crashed so much I will sell my house, and then yes, sleep in my car. No rental will take you without a job, you absolute idiot. I’ve never lived in public housing and won’t. You’re so out of touch it is sad.

What a result! We knew the support was there, and South Australia just proved it. To our dedicated candidates and tireless volunteers, your hard work has paid off. To everyone who put their trust in One Nation at the ballot box: THANK YOU. You now have strong, unapologetic voices in Parliament working for you. We are closely watching the tally for final results. Next? Two By-elections: • Nepean, VIC: Saturday, 2 May • Farrer, NSW: Saturday, 9 May

You obviously don’t go to church or have children, you childless spanner. The Easter Bunny is literally how parents make the biblical resurrection of Jesus Christ fun and memorable for kids. It’s called engaging the next generation, not sneering from your echo chamber. Touch recent news, or a Bible. My child does every morning and is already a better person than you.

@DisinfoLedger @JonathanPieNews Ah yes, the biblical tradition of the Easter Bunny will definitely help children understand the true meaning of Easter.

Here are some Easter eggs from the 1980's with no mention of Easter on the packaging. My personal favourite was the Lion Bar one. Can we all move on from this now please?

The aboriginal translator

@triggerpod You do realise Tucker, Megan, and Candace bots are going to give you so many views rn. I didn’t realise you needed more money. Why didn’t you ask Ted for more Jew money per post!?

Watch the full episode here👇 youtube.com/watch?v=ug07xa…

“Tucker hates President Trump. He opposes everything about his foreign policy, and he’s attacking him daily—but he’s too chicken to actually say that. So instead, he just has every clown who hates Trump on his show to attack his policies.”

@triggerpod Stupid thing to post. I thought you better.

@skinnywinger @JonathanPieNews Yep.

@DisinfoLedger @JonathanPieNews Just in your head then….

@StephenKing I think I’m so messed up from Fairy Tale I can’t remember if a baby was in there. All I can think about it is Radar. Fucker.

Are you for real?