Mr PITT: We’ve heard it all before: no changes to superannuation, no changes to franking credits, no changes to unrealised gains, no changes to capital gains, no changes to negative gearing—no changes to tax.

Mr PITT: I rise to make a few brief comments about Australia’s resources sector. You should never forget—and I don’t just mean you, Madam Deputy Speaker Ananda-Rajah; I mean all those listening—just what happened during COVID, as the previous speaker, the member for Riverina, pointed out.

Mr PITT: It’s another Green-Labor stitch up. We’ve seen it again this week. Someone is misleading. Someone is providing misinformation.

Mr PITT: To those who might be listening to this debate at home or elsewhere: you might think that the cashless debit card trials were only in Aboriginal communities, but they were not. In fact, the biggest trial site in the country was in my electorate of Hinkler.

Mr PITT: I am, indeed. I have with me the inaugural NRL Pacific Showcase trophy, from the touch football game on Tuesday! It was played in very good spirits. It will go on to be an annual event. I want to give a shout-out to Jess Goddard from the NRL.

Mr PITT: For the information of the member who just spoke, it is the Labor Party in opposition that holds the record for the most number of times they have called divisions, quorums and made the bells ring and misplace since Federation, so I think it is a bit precious to make those types of comments. I was on the road last week doing what’s collectively known as ‘Pitt stops’ all over the Hinkler electorate—in Urangan, Pialba and Burrum, Buxton, Woodgate, Childers, lots of places in Bundaberg and all over the show.

Mr PITT: What a fantastic opportunity it is to attack those opposite for not delivering $275 reductions in electricity prices.

Mr PITT: I really have to answer a couple of those points very briefly. The Nationals held all 15 of their seats and gained a senator, and in Queensland the Labor Party did nothing but lose seats and go backwards. So for those opposite to pretend that this is some great mandate is absolutely false. The people who drive our economy in the regions, in Queensland in particular, did not agree with the proposition.

Mr PITT: Twenty-five years—what an anniversary. It’s not so great if you’re a horse. And, for others, it’s a long time if you’re married. Twenty-five years for LifeFlight Bundaberg is an incredible milestone.

Mr PITT: I rise to speak on what has now become the debacle of this nation: the cashless debit card. What we have seen since Labor has come to power has had an impact in the four trial sites, and it’s not a positive impact; it is a detrimental impact to the people that live there, to those poor kids who are being directly affected and to all of those individuals who struggle with alcohol abuse.