One Nation Senator Malcolm Robert’s 1st Speech Was As Nuts As You Imagined

This week is a stellar lineup of Senate maiden speeches. We had Derryn Hinch‘s paedophile-naming spree on Monday, One Nation‘s Malcolm Roberts last night, and Pauline Hanson this afternoon. What good deeds have we done to earn such quality representation?

We all know Pauline’s deal, and I’m sure her speech won’t have a whole lot going on that we haven’t seen before. But Malcolm Roberts last night was a barnstormer. We’ve already seen him at his best trying to school scientist Brian Cox with climate graphs on Q&A, but it’s worth mentioning that he’s definitely more a wildcard than Hanson, with far more connection to fringe conspiracy theories.

His speech was essentially about how Australia is being assaulted by malevolent, socialist external forces like the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund. He wants an ‘Aus-Exit’ from those institutions, which are apparently using climate mumbo jumbo to create a one world government that controls us all from Brussels. Or something.

It is basic. The sun warms the earth’s surface. The surface, by contact, warms the moving, circulating atmosphere. That means the atmosphere cools the surface. How then can the atmosphere warm it? It cannot. That is why their computer models are wrong.

The UN’s claim is absurd. Instead of science, activists invoke morality, imply natural weather events are unusual, appeal to authority and use name-calling, ridicule and emotion. They avoid discussing facts and rely on pictures of cute smiling dolphins. These are not evidence of human effect on climate.

Roberts has copped some scrutiny in the past over his associations, with many questioning why he has moved in the same circles as the ‘sovereign citizen’ movement – people who believe they are not citizens of any nation and therefore are not subject to their laws (Jason Wilson at The Guardian did a great writeup). Roberts denies these associations.