Australia will need to rapidly expand parking space to accommodate the hundreds of fuel-guzzling luxury private jets that would descend on the country should Labor be ‘successful’ in its bid to host the virtue-signalling talkfest called COP31.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had failed to consider the logistical problems associated with his latest vanity project – the bid to host a United Nations climate conference in Adelaide at a cost of up to $2 billion.

“We checked the numbers,” Senator Hanson said. “Delegates attending COP28 in the United Arab Emirates in 2023 flew in on a combined total of 644 private jets.

“The problem for Adelaide is that its airport barely has enough hard stand accommodation for 10 private jets – even fewer if the RFDS is in town. In fact, the entire country doesn’t have sufficient hard stand accommodation for more than 600 private jets.

“Where will all these virtuous billionaire activists – lecturing the rest of us on our climate footprints – park their fuel-guzzling luxury private jets, those wonderful symbols of their solemn commitments to reduce their personal emissions and lead a simpler life by example?”

Senator Hanson said with the UN demanding emissions cuts that would completely cripple Australia’s economy and their officials interfering in Australian courts, a government that put Australian interests first would drop the COP31 bid and start the process of withdrawing from the UN.

“Australia can’t afford the estimated $2 billion it will cost taxpayers to fund the Prime Minister’s latest vanity exercise,” she said. “There is no need to host this conference, and no benefit to Australia – just more cost to accommodate climate change hypocrites.

“One Nation’s policy is to withdraw Australia from the Paris Agreement and ultimately from the United Nations itself. This body deliberately means harm to our country and it’s no longer in our interests to remain a member.”