Senator ROBERTS (Queensland) (10:29): On behalf of the people of Queensland and Australia, because I am their servant, I want to take note of Senator Cormann's statement. I walk to talk about two issues, two words. The first is 'accountability' and the second is 'racism'. In regard to the first, accountability, Senator Cormann has not, in my opinion, addressed the core questions. He has failed to provide reassurances and explanations that meet the people's needs, and in that he has raised serious questions. I'm not going to continue that line of argument at the moment, though, because Senator Wong has done an outstanding job of that. I just want to point out the lack of accountability in Senator Cormann's statement. I haven't done the research, so I'm not going to continue that comment other than to point out that accountability is lacking. Having seen Martin Parkinson dodge my questions and those of the Chair of the Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee just adds to the lack of accountability in this house, and that undermines people's respect for the house. But the second question I am concerned about is that there have been no suggestions from the Labor Party—or from journalists, to my awareness—that Ms Liu is under pressure because of her race. That the Liberal Party and the National Party have claimed that is, in fact, saddening, disappointing and slightly annoying. There is no racism that I have seen in any comments on this from the Labor Party. But I have seen implied racism from the Liberal Party in its defence. Then we hear today that these questions are against 1.3 million Chinese in this country and that the Labor Party and others who are seeking questions answered are simply bashing the Chinese. That is false. That is clearly not part of the game. That is a tactic that the Greens often use and non-government organisation activists use when they don't have evidence—when they lack facts and lack an argument. Playing the race card as the Liberals have done and the National Party has done only undermines their own position. We have got to stop using the race card in this country. When people can't mount an argument, they resort to lies, misrepresentations and accusations like 'misogynist', 'racist' and all the rest of it. That undermines the argument in the Liberal Party's defence. One Nation opposes racism, opposes implicit racism and won't do that. We abhor the government for taking that stance in this case. Please come clean with the facts. That's all that people want. That's all that Australians want, because there are serious questions that the media have raised and that Andrew Bolt has raised. People in Australia just want answers.