Senator HANSON (Queensland) (14:56): No. I seek leave to move a motion to extend debate until five o'clock. Leave not granted. Senator HANSON: Pursuant to contingent notice, I move: That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent further consideration of the bill until 5 pm. Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! If people would just be quiet and let the motion be read they would then have the chance to raise their points of order. Senator Abetz. Senator Abetz: That is exactly my point of order. Given that this is a verbal motion being given to the Senate, it is vitally important that we all get to hear it. The PRESIDENT: Senator Hanson? Senator HANSON: I'm seeking leave to move a motion to extend debate until 5 pm. The PRESIDENT: Leave was not granted, so you're now moving— Senator HANSON: I'm moving contingent notice that so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent further consideration of the bill until 5 pm. I would like to make my comments here because this debate is being shut down in the chamber by people who— Senator Wong: Mr President, a point of order— The PRESIDENT: I've taken advice from the Clerk, Senator Wong. On the point of order, I'm happy to provide the advice I was just given by the Clerk. Do you wish to continue, Senator Hanson? Briefly, please, not a speech. Have you finished your notification to the Senate about what you're asking the Senate to vote on? Senator HANSON: That I've asked for a contingent notice, yes. The PRESIDENT: Right. The point of order that was inevitably raised is: is this in order, given the Senate's previous vote? Firstly, this is not a contingent notice. This is a simple motion to suspend standing orders, according to my advice from the Clerk. The second matter, with respect to it being in order to move this motion given the previous vote of the Senate, is that this is, firstly, a different motion—it applies to the extension of time, not the deferral of a vote beyond the end of this parliamentary session. Secondly, when we dealt with the income tax bills following the budget and exactly the same thing happened, there were two opportunities for the Senate to consider alteration of the time-management motion that had previously been put in place. I give notice that this is the last time I will entertain a motion to change the time limitation, consistent with my rulings at that time. But this motion is now in order. Senator Hanson is free to speak for five minutes to the motion she has just moved. Senator HANSON: Thank you very much, Mr President. I feel cheated, and so do the people of Australia, that they have not been able to have their voice heard in this place with regard to this. They're shutting down debate on this, which is such a very important issue. People stand up and talk about national security, but they're not prepared to actually debate it and talk about the issues that are happening. There are 483 unauthorised maritime arrivals on Nauru and a further 607 males on Manus Island. You are more concerned about the people over there then you are about the people here in Australia. I hear the debate in this place about the children. You're worried about children. I'm worried about children first, but would you please go and have an understanding of what's happening to the children in the Northern Territory with the sexual abuse that is happening to them— The PRESIDENT: Senator Bernardi, a point of order? Senator Bernardi: My point of order is that I'm finding it very difficult to hear Senator Hanson—I'm very close—because Senator Pratt is interjecting most loudly and rudely, and saying things that are almost unparliamentary, I would say. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Bernardi. Interjections are disorderly. For those concerned about time, I urge you to be quiet and there will be no more points of order about noise. Senator HANSON: Thank you very much, Mr President. I'm glad you are really interested in what I have to say because every Australian should be. It annoys the heck out of me and a lot of Australian people that the Greens have more interest in what's happening around the world and in other countries than they do in the people here in Australia. As I have said, in the Northern Territory, you've got the sexual abuse of children, babies, and what is done about it? Is everyone screaming about that in this chamber? There's nothing. You're all quiet. You're worried about these children over there. There are nine left there and you're worried about them. Do you know what they're doing? They're shopping for doctors. They get on Skype, they find a doctor that appeals to them and then they go to the judge at one o'clock in the morning. I say, 'What is happening to these people?' We don't even have that in Australia for the Australian people. They've got 61 doctors over there. There is one doctor to every eight refugees. I can't even get doctors out to rural and regional areas in Australia. We're providing that number of doctors at a cost of $450 million a year to the taxpayers? These are not people who came here; these are people who have been denied coming here to Australia. Not only that but our obligation to them is on a welfare and medical basis. We have provided those. We have spent the taxpayers' dollars building a hospital wing on Nauru for these people. They had been taken to Taiwan. Some went while others refused to go there saying, 'We are coming to Australia because they are so soft over there.' Once they get to this country, they want to stay here. You know what the Australian people tell me they get annoyed about? The Australian people are fed up with seeing refugees being given preference over Australians for hospitals, for housing, for welfare, for everything. The Australian people are fed up with it. They want to be looked after themselves. We are taxpaying Australians here and these people, who are economic refugees, have cost Australian taxpayers. They paid their way to get into this country. This is about border protection. This is about looking after our borders. What did Kevin Rudd say? He confirmed that, if they are found to be genuine refugees, they will be resettled in Papua New Guinea. You're going to open up the floodgates. If you allow this to happen, you will open up the floodgates for more people to come here. There are 14,000 waiting in Indonesia to come here to Australia. I reiterate what I said: the Greens are absolutely disgusting and their attitude towards the Australian people is that they are more concerned about other people around the world. If that's your attitude then get out of this place because you don't deserve to be a representative of the Australian people. I believe that, if there are truly children in need of help, that help has been given to them by the 61 doctors there—more help than we give to Australian citizens. I say to the people here: you are representatives of the people of Australia first and foremost. Don't try and be the representatives for the world. Look after your own people here. That's all they're crying out for. Understand their needs and concerns, get them medical assistance and get doctors to rural and regional Australia because that is where we need the help and assistance and stop worrying about everyone around the world. Clean up our own backyard first. That's what the Australian people want: to clean up our own backyard first.