The Australian public should not be paying for gas industry pipelines, infrastructure or buying gas directly from new fracking gasfields.

The Queensland Hunter Gas Pipeline, the NT Beetaloo Fracking Pipeline and Bowen Basin pipeline would put farmers and traditional owners directly at risk.

Gas is a bad investment. Our money shouldn't prop up the gas industry. It puts farmers and regional communities in the firing line for new gasfields and fracking.

We can create more jobs and opportunities if we support manufacturing and agribusiness to electrify and use plentiful renewable energy. We can switch away from gas.

The government could help homes and small businesses install renewables, get energy efficient, and invest in storage. We don't need more gas and fracking gasfields.

I think the member for Farrer and Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley should be protesting about this expenditure and demanding it be allocated to renewable energy projects and incentives to the communities to become more energy efficient.

IN OTHER NEWS:

Yes, this COVID virus is serious but when will the federal government explain to the public the real truth about this virus to help reduce to hysteria in the public.

In a federal health document, it explains that less than 10 per cent of the people who died could be deaths attributed only to the virus, while the others had a pre-existing health condition.

The long-term health effect on our younger population is a major serious problem now and into the future. Humans are social animals and being locked up like a caged animal for committing no crime is deplorable.

The economic recovery will be a long road and the planned infrastructure spending needs to be targeted for national long-term development, not for projects in major capital cities.

Tourism recovery will take many years due to the increased number of unemployed, international tourists have been frightened away due to bad press and the self-funded retirees have a reduced income.

The federal government should return all military personnel immediately to their job of protecting the Australian border.

It's time we as a nation revisited our Constitution and abolished all state parliaments.

If this requires a referendum, then so be it. Imagine the billions of dollars this this would save and we would only have one government to make laws for all of us and not the hotch-potch of dictatorial state governments doing their own thing.

What did Dan Andrews learn from his various trips to China apart from his dubious belts and roads scheme. Maybe he was educated on how to run a China-backed dictatorship here.

The state premiers are only concerned with their own self interests and over-inflated self-importance. We need a strong federal government to rectify the mess we are now in.