Senator Malcolm Roberts

Malcolm’s passion for freedom, responsibility and service are his guiding principles for his work as a Senator for Queensland. He was first elected as a Senator with One Nation in 2016 and returned to the Senate again in 2019.

The early years of Malcolm’s life was spent in India before moving to Central Queensland with his family as his father worked in the coal mines, then later to the Hunter Valley and finally settling in Brisbane. Malcolm and his wife Christine have two adult children.

After graduation he worked for three years as an underground coalface miner.

Malcolm has extensive experience and success from within the corporate sector and as a business owner. His background in engineering and mining started before graduating with an engineering degree (honours) from University of Queensland. After graduation he worked for three years as an underground coalface miner. Malcolm rose through management ranks to lead and bring about significant profitability and production improvements at underground coal mines and coal processing plants.

He led the operational development of Australia’s largest and most complex underground coal project that successfully set many industry firsts.

A keen interest in business leadership and economics led Malcolm to a Master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. He led the operational development of Australia’s largest and most complex underground coal project that successfully set many industry firsts. He then established an executive consultancy specialising in leadership and management services for Australian and international clients.

Malcolm brings to the Senate a thorough, practical and analytical approach to examining issues and is deeply committed to listening and thoroughly researching the facts. He is enthusiastic to work with Queenslanders to understand people’s concerns, connect with people’s needs and work to bring about helpful solutions.

Australia’s capacity to embrace its riches and talent has been slowly eroded over time. Malcolm is committed to optimising our productive capacity by removing excessive government intervention and halting the slow march towards the centralist approach that undermines our ability to take responsibility and have freedom in our lives.

Unlike Liberal and Labor career politicians, Malcolm comes from the real world. This gives him an important perspective on issues coming before the Parliament that union and corporate lap-dogs miss.

Malcolm is passionate about serving you. Long term followers of Malcolm begin to notice many of his speeches in Parliament begin with:

“As a servant to the people…”

This is Malcolm’s reminder that he has been elected by the people, works for the people and is a servant to the people. Malcolm is no servant to corporations, unions or un-elected overseas bureaucracies, he fights for you.

Malcolm fights for what is right on many fronts. People trust that he will ask the hard questions, get the right facts, find the data and make the right decision. Among many of these issues, there are a number of areas that are common threads to a lot of problems in the country. These are just some of the things Malcolm sees as needing immediate fixing to help the country.