One Nation agrees with the sentiment behind the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Make Price Gouging Illegal) Bill 2024. Coles and Woolworths have morphed from trusted Australian grocery stores into greedy, shareholder-driven machines that have rightfully become the most disliked brands in the country.
While we support the goal of reining them in, we cannot support this specific bill for several reasons:
✔️ Free enterprise is doing what it does best — punishing greed. We see Amazon partnering with Harris Farm to deliver fresh food and independent retailers like IGA and Supabarn are treating customers like they matter.
✔️ We don’t need more poorly worded regulations. What we need is the ACCC and the Labor government to grow a spine and enforce the laws we already have. The supermarkets are already using deceptive "specials" to manipulate prices and the fines they receive are a pittance.
✔️ If we’re going to talk about price gouging, let’s talk about the government. Between $70 cigarette packets, fuel excise, and skyrocketing energy bills, the government is the biggest price gouger of all.
This bill won't help the Aussie family at the checkout.
Instead, it will simply create a goldmine for lawyers. And with their deep pockets, Coles and Woolworths will be the ones who will walk away winning while the customers lose.
One Nation supports the “principle” of stopping corporate greed, however we completely oppose this flawed implementation.
STOP making new, ineffective laws and start enforcing the ones that actually hold these giant corporations to account.
During this Queston Time, I asked Minister Watt why Christian refugees are being excluded.
Instead of addressing my question, Minister Watt resorted to the usual Labor tactics: personal attacks.
Our immigration program should be based on protecting our security and supporting those truly in need, rather than outsourcing our sovereignty to the UN or prioritising groups that do not share our values.
The Minister’s refusal to provide a straight answer only proves that this government is more interested in virtue signalling than the safety of the Australian people.
Angus Taylor has vowed to ban it. Officials revealed exactly how many migrants have claimed access to the scheme during a late-night Senate estimates hearing. 🔗 READ MORE: https://t.co/TBciczc2Ep
We are going backwards.
Both GDP per capita and Productivity fell last quarter.
Now is the very worst time to be increasing taxes on capital investments.
We are governed by bumbling incompetent fools that don’t have a clue how the real economy works.
Keep voting Labor for "More of the Same"
I see now why Clare O'Neil loves pumping out the social media clips where she animatedly parrots the government talking points. Put her up against real people asking real questions about her claims and she absolutely crumbles 😬
A very important point raised here by One Nation’s Senator Whitten. Approximately 75 per cent of all suicides are by men. Yet, in the National Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement, men are not one of the 15 “priority populations”.
It’s long past time that men’s mental health was taken seriously and received the attention it deserves.
David Farley asked his first question in the House of Representatives today. In keeping with the campaign he ran and the interests of Farrer, he asked about water security. It was very deliberate that this was raised with the Defence Minister. The time has long come for us to start viewing water security as a national security issue, not an environmental issue. Well done, David. He promised to be a strong voice for Farrer, and he’s already proving that.
Well said Senator Sean Bell. According to our Labor Defence Minister, one of the main threats to our national security is raising concerns about the out-of-control mass migration happening under this Labor Government. He seems to be suggesting that the only way we can maintain strong alliances in Asia is to accept mass migration. What a ludicrous comment to make.
He claims that raising concerns about mass migration is xenophobic and is harming social cohesion. He’s got it completely the wrong way around. It’s the mass migration happening under his government that is harming social cohesion and fragmenting our communities. The reality is that one of the biggest threats to our national security is this hopeless Labor Government.
Barnaby Joyce,
She should be sanctioned like Francesca Albanese. We don't need her spreading more hate. Boycott ABC
Giving Grace Tame a job because she shit in her own nest and hit the skids is typical of the ABC. A welfare mentality sees many ABC shows, and SBS for that matter, allow fruitcakes to waste our tax dollar.
"This is a disgrace’: Barnaby Joyce flames ‘bat poo crazy’ ABC for hiring Grace Tame"
"One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has flamed the “bat poo crazy” ABC for hiring Australian of the Year recipient Grace Tame, labelling it a “disgrace”."
"The controversial activist will host a four-part podcast series for the broadcaster."
"“Let’s just pull the shutters down on any premise that you are balanced, on any premise that you have both the right and left wing views.""
"“If that’s where the ABC has now arrived to, being sort of pro-climate policy, pro every sort of rat bag idea, and now they’re wheeling out Grace Tame, then spare us the dollars and go subscription.""
"“The fact that on the back of a whole heap of Australian’s being murdered at Bondi, we have got someone who is saying globalise the Intifada.""
"“You probably should be locked up for saying it, rather than paid to say it.”"
Barnaby is echoing the sentiments of all of us, a bunny boiler sat on a pedestal.
As a lifelong tree-hugger (nothing to do with politics), I find it fascinating that the party considered most 'far-right' in Australia, is the only one calling out the egregious environmental destruction of the absurd 'Net Zero' wealth transferring scam already debunked across much of the West.
Not the Greens, not Peter Garret, not the traditional leftist environmental activists who used to chain themselves to trees to prevent the death of one koala, let alone the destruction of forests for industrial wastelands of unrenewable 'renewables'.
Australia should not need permanent subsidies for energy-intensive industry when we are one of the most resource-rich nations on Earth!
Australia has some of the largest coal and gas reserves on Earth, vast uranium resources, enormous land availability and a tiny population relative to our resource base. We should be producing some of the cheapest and most reliable electricity in the developed world. Instead, governments created an increasingly expensive and unstable energy system, then proposed subsidies and partial nationalisation to compensate industries for the very costs government policy helped create in the first place. That is not energy sovereignty. That is policy failure layered on top of policy failure.