Senator ROBERTS (Queensland) (17:20): As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, it gives me great delight to share some really wonderful news for the people of Queensland and Australia and indeed for all low- and middle-income families. President Trump has declared that 'the war on coal' is over. This goes on to say: President Trump on Tuesday signed a far-reaching executive order that dismantles many of the pillars— The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Marshall ): Order! Senator Roberts, resume your seat. Senator Polley, on a point of order? Senator Polley: Yes. I would just ask you to draw the senator back to the issue that we are debating. We are not talking about US politics or about Donald Trump. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Roberts has only just started his contribution, and I think he has made a link at the moment. We will wait and see. Senator ROBERTS: Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy President. Your perceptiveness is admired and appreciated. You have it correct. President Trump said that he is: … ending the theft of American prosperity, and rebuilding our beloved country. We actually agree with the Labor Party that low- and middle-income Australians are continuing to lose out under the Turnbull government. The Turnbull government is pushing a 28 per cent renewable energy target, and that has helped destroy South Australia. The Labor Party is pushing a 50 per cent renewable energy target countrywide, and that will destroy Australia. But the Greens, the people who think that money comes out of the sky, want a 90 per cent renewable energy target, and that is going to cost every low- and middle-income earner amazing amounts of money. It will destroy this country and destroy jobs. What is more, energy prices are rising, and rising rapidly, and energy is now important in every family's life. Every family's cost of living is affected directly and indirectly as rising energy costs cascade through the economy. It is a highly regressive tax on low- and middle-income earners. Labor actually wants to apply a carbon dioxide tax, an emissions trading scheme, which is yet another highly regressive impost on low- and middle-income earners. What is more, it is an open-ended, upward-ratcheting tax that is designed to give money to the United Nations. We have a double taxation agreement that was signed by the Liberal Party in 1953. I calculate that we have had—three, 13, six—22 years of Labor government since then, and not one of those Labor governments has even mentioned the double taxation agreement that is ripping off Australians. Only our party have done that, and we are making moves to end that double taxation— (Time expired) The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Marshall ): Senator Dastyari, on a point of order? Senator Dastyari: I just want check for future reference: if the Senate were to choose to do so—I am not saying we would—by leave we can give Senator Roberts 20 more minutes whenever we want, can't we! The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: That is not a point of order.