Mr NUGENT (9:43 AM) —I want to talk briefly this morning about some of the choices that will be available to electors in my electorate of Aston at the upcoming election.

Mr Slipper —I hope they are going to vote for you.

Mr NUGENT —I certainly hope they will vote for me as well. Of course, there will be the traditional contest between Liberal and Labor. We will talk about the fact that unemployment in my electorate went from 1.4 per cent when Labor came to power to about nine per cent when they left and how it has come down under our government. We will talk about interest rates and how they went through the roof under Labor and have come down under our government. We will talk about government debt, which went through the roof under Labor and has come down under our government. We will talk about the fact that we have inflation under control, the fact that we are up-front on taxes and that we actually reduce taxes. But I also understand that we may well find that we have a One Nation candidate in my electorate, and I just want to say a couple of words about the subject of the One Nation Party.

I can understand that, whilst some people in this country might be attracted by the superficial appeal that comes from One Nation, it is a complex world we live in. It is a changing world. There are attractions perhaps to having some simple cut-through solution that people think is going to fix everything. Unfortunately, the real world is not like that. I would suggest to people who may be considering looking at One Nation that they need to look very closely at the policies of One Nation. They ought to ask for the detail. They ought to ask how these grandiose statements are actually going to be achieved.

We saw a good example yesterday in question time when the member for Oxley (Ms Hanson) stood up and asked the Prime Minister (Mr Howard) why he had not imposed a tariff on pork imports from Canada. The Prime Minister quite rightly made the point that it is not as simple as that, because, if we do that, the Canadians will then impose a cut-off on imports we send to Canada. As we send eight times as much to Canada as we bring from Canada, we would have a net job loss. It seems to me that that is not a very smart move. It seems to me that that is typical of the sorts of policies we get from One Nation. They are simplistic, they are there to appeal to the average person in the street who perhaps does not understand some of those complexities but would in fact do damage to this country.

What One Nation is all about is saying that it wants to do this, that or the other, and, when you look through it, it is going to do damage to the country. It is going to do damage to the country in a whole range of areas. I would appeal to the electors of Aston and in fact the electors across the country that they ask One Nation candidates not for the cheap rhetoric, not for the grand phrase but to spell out how they are going to do things. I would suggest that, when it comes to how things are going to be done and you compare the record of my party and my government with what One Nation is saying, this government has been delivering. This government has been delivering in tough times. We acknowledge that there is more to be done and we will continue to do it, but people out there should not be fooled or be taken in by the fool's gold of One Nation. (Time expired)