When the Liberal-Labor uniparty is not ripping us off – they’re ripping us apart. That’s what it feels like listening to the back-and-forth between Labor and the Coalition as they fight over favourable headlines.

$9 billion for Medicare. $80 million for the reef. $750 million for low-carbon technology. $1.5 billion for Ukraine.

We are seeing a plethora of bribes bandied around in the lead-up to the federal election.

Some of these wads of cash prey on people’s economic desperation while others risk entrenching very serious problems created by pandemic lockdowns and the ‘Big Australia’ project.

What Australians really want is peace, prosperity, liberty, and fiscal responsibility.

Who can blame Australians for being nostalgic for better times?

With so much wealth buried in the ground and huge individual tax rates, many are asking why these times aren’t better…

It is a very good question whose answer boils down to ‘negligence’.

When everyone is being careful with their money, the government needs to show the same respect to taxpayers.

Instead of throwing money at a broken system, One Nation believes in making that system more efficient. Medicare, for example, is being rorted up to $3 billion a year –resources that are better off directed towards lifting bulk-billing rates. We can save money. As Senator Pauline Hanson said:

‘Fixing Medicare and cracking down on fraud is part of our plan to slash government waste by $90 billion – putting $40 billion more in Australians’ pockets, paying down government debt, and investing in Australia’s future.’

Instead of Labor and the Coalition having a ‘Mediscare’ war about who can spend the most to make things worse, we believe that every dollar saved is a dollar taxpayers get to keep.

While wasting public money is one thing, what I find particularly saddening is the struggle of young couples who cannot have the number of children they want – the large families which were once the norm – because there are no homes available and no money for the extra groceries.

What are their choices?

To live in shoe-box-sized apartments? To move ever further away from their jobs? I’ve seen so many who sleep on trains and buses, doing everything they can as the economy is eroded beneath them. Their time is running out, and what has Albanese done? He admitted 2.43 million new visa holders…

I would argue that this situation is more serious than political negligence – it is a betrayal.

The Prime Minister talks about ‘Australia made’ yet we cannot even make our own children.

It is no wonder young people feel as though they haven’t been given a ‘fair go’. They have been robbed of the benefits we enjoyed 30 years ago. In desperation, they are searching the fringes of politics for answers while a growing number have given up on democracy altogether.

There surely is no greater insult to these families than watching $1.5 billion sail offshore to be used in war – or $600 million blown on an NRL team for PNG.

Given this, it may seem strange to watch the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition develop an obsession with foreign policy, although I know why they have…

Promising money while shaking hands with world leaders allows them to momentarily abdicate their domestic responsibility. It is a feel-good distraction – another headline for the press to fawn over. Instead of talking about mass migration, they are part of a ‘Coalition of the Willing’.

One Nation opposes the Albanese plan to put Australian boots on the ground in Europe. We believe in Australia First and that includes prioritising the defence of Australia. Most importantly, we believe in re-focusing government spending on domestic issues to make this nation stronger.

To this point, the first line of defence involves giving Australians a home to defend.

One Nation will ban foreign purchases of homes – permanently. We will extend the ban to farmland to ensure that food production remains in the hands of Australians. We will tell foreign owners to sell their properties to Australians and re-open the market. Houses for Aussies. First, and always.

This is how you give the next generation a connection to ‘Country’ and a piece of the nation to cherish.

A home is a future.

We have to do something about the ‘$576,000 or 49 per cent’ figure that people are forking out for taxes, charges, and regulatory costs before they are in a position to build a home. It may have hit the headlines last week, yet I exposed this three years ago. In addition, we need to suspend GST on building materials and wind back the building code to save approximately $50,000 per home.

We don’t only need new houses, we need infrastructure. We want to see the money Anthony Albanese has earmarked for foreign causes used to build regional links that governments have cancelled because they see no ‘election value’ in outback communities. Our regions matter. The heart of Australia deserves attention after suffering decades of cold shoulders – particularly from the Coalition who sold farmers out to the renewable energy lobby.

Instead of handouts – One Nation wants to build infrastructure that allows Australians to enrich themselves. To build their own businesses. To work across vast distances. To achieve independence from the government, and security from the financial crisis.

I recently travelled to Alice Springs to discuss supporting Australians in remote communities – all Australians, irrespective of race.

The 3,000km Northern Rail Link is just one proposal that would improve the lives of remote Australians with transport, internet, electricity, and water. This restores equality of opportunity for all Australians.

And finally, we need to put an end to the weaponisation of division. Albanese has used ‘social justice’ and ‘diversity’ to divide Australia into voting blocs, pitting citizen against citizen, to divide, buy-off and conquer.

This must end.

One Nation will abolish racially divisive Indigenous departments, saving $15 billion every year. We will redirect the remaining spending directly to local communities, rural and remote programs must be about need, not colour. These communities have lost so much under a socialist ideology that treats remote communities as ‘race collectives’ rather than individuals with their own unique dreams, aspirations, and needs.

We believe in one flag, one community and One Nation.