Carbon has been pouring into our atmosphere for millions of years from volcanoes, forest fires, meteorite collisions and earthquakes, and still is, but we can still see the stars and clear skies, said One Nation’s Senate team leader, Robert Edmonds.

"You don’t need to be a scientist to work out that the carbon and other pollutants that go up from forest fires eventually come down on the land and sea, which is why we have clear skies.

"Carbon pollution created by generating electricity and driving cars needs to be overcome by developing clean sources of energy, which is already happening, but they don’t justify a tax."

Mr. Edmonds said the government seemed to think that a tax on carbon would force people to use less electricity and force trucks, buses and cars to use less fuel.

Both of these objectives were impossible as Australia’s population continued to grow and increased the demand for electricity and fuel.

"The New Zealand Government has recently introduced an emissions trading tax that will cost industries, businesses and households hundreds of millions of dollars every year without causing any reduction in carbon pollution," Mr. Edmonds said.

"The only way a tax can reduce carbon pollution, which is also caused by the active volcanoes around the world, is by putting people out of business."

If the Labor Government is returned to office it will be so dependent on the support of the Greens that all mining projects, all commercial fishing, including recreational fishing, and all food production will be compromised.

"This would be a disaster for Australia by creating enormous unemployment problems and increasing the importation of food, which would put more food producers out of business," said Robert Edmonds, One Nation’s Senate team leader.

"The Greens need to be seen as environmental fanatics who put leaving our total environment as untouched as possible above all other considerations that involve some form of development.

"The Labor Party would have to support the Greens in what they want in order to get their own legislation passed."

Mr. Edmonds said that if a Liberal government were elected it too was likely to need the support of small, conservative political parties, such as One Nation, to get its legislation passed.

This too could be a serious outcome for Australia but for different reasons.

"My advice to voters at this election is to think about what is happening in Australia, look at the record of the present Labor Government and then cast an intelligent vote that would help the nation and not be destructive," Mr. Edmonds said.

Speaking from first hand experience as a former worker in a nursing home, Barbara Pannach, a One Nation team member for the Legislative Council in the March 20 elections, said the management of some nursing homes was in urgent need of government intervention to enforce prescribed standards of care.

"My job was to serve morning tea and lunch to residents with food prepared to counter loss of weight and dehydration, described as ‘build-up foods and beverages," Ms Pannach said.

"Because of the pressure on staff to stick to their roster schedules, it was not unusual for me to find the food had not been served to some of the residents when I collected their dishes, which meant I had to throw it away"

Ms Pannach said most of the staff worked extra hours without pay, including herself, to try to keep up with their workloads and duties.

"I was ashamed and guilty at the way some of the residents were left hungry at meal times and after a few weeks I walked out.

"Many of the other staff could not do this because they were single income people and had to put up with the pressure on them to carry out their duties as far as they could."

Ms Pannach said most of the funding in some homes seemed to go to management instead of the operation of the business and the front line staff who actually did the work.

The Labor Government wanted to replace the Royal Adelaide Hospital at a cost of around $3 billion while the Liberal Opposition was offering to build sports facilities at a cost of several million dollars.

"Both major parties seem unaware that crime in its various forms has become a crisis and that strategies need to be devised and implemented to deal with the causes of crime to begin slowing it down.

"The crime rate is particularly bad for the whole of Adelaide and in Mawson we also have several local problems, which probably applies to other electorates.

"The sweeping promises that have been made by the two major parties that affect Mawson are not reassuring because the problems have been with us for some years."

Mr. Lee said health and hospital care for people living in Mawson was almost non-existent and the rural nature of the electorate now needed to be protected from developers.

The new government after March 20 needed to bring in emergency legislation to give the police and the courts the powers necessary to be effective in catching, prosecuting and jailing criminals, who now seemed able to break the law openly and get away with it.

"We have armed hold-ups nearly every day, drugs being sold almost openly on the streets and now a car bomb, which really is the last straw in destroying Adelaide as a safe city," Ms Pannach said.

"We also have regular home invasions and hundreds of families whose children, mainly young males, have committed suicide through not being able to get the help they needed for drug addiction and mental illness, a plague that often begins at school."

Ms Pannach said she lost her own son through inadequate treatment for drug addiction and that Adelaide’s Hindley Street on Friday and Saturday nights was a focal point for lawlessness and criminal behaviour for anyone to see.

"We all know that the current Labor Government concerns itself with the rights of the criminal, as required by the United Nations, but I think most people have had enough of being afraid to go out at night and the risk of being attacked in their own homes.

"The police almost certainly know the identity of many of the drug dealers and other criminals from their own intelligence system but they need additional powers to be able to act on this information and not be stopped by legal technicalities," Ms Pannach said.

"The government’s education system is producing semi-literates, barely able to read and write and incapable of mental arithmetic, the health system in Mawson is almost non-existent and crime, in all its forms, has become a fact of life," Mr. Lee said.

"The use and abuse of drugs has also become a fact of life, with hundreds of families losing their sons as a result of addiction and mental illness.

"In addition, we have every business, small and large, trying to survive and employ people while coping with endless laws and regulations that have the effect of stifling free enterprise."

Mr. Lee said the Labor Government clearly had no idea of how to run the state for the benefit of South Australians.

"We have armed robberies nearly every day, regular home invasions and now a car bomb, in addition to people already being afraid to go out at night and no longer feeling safe in their homes," Mr. Lee said.