Catherine Hawksby

It's a really good firefighting agent.

If a plane crashes at an Air Force base, this is the stuff you squirt around.

But it's a forever chemical, they're calling it.

It's polluted waterways, polluted soils.

The runoff from hard stands at Air Force bases has completely trashed surrounding countryside.

The government claims that 3M, in fact, engaged in the cover-up.

It knew this stuff was dreadful, was deadly, was hideous, and engaged in the cover-up about the effects of these PFAS chemicals.

The government says thousands and thousands of homes are contaminated as well.

For its part, 3M says, well, hang on a second.

We haven't sold it in your country for many, many years, for decades, in fact, and we actually stopped sales of the product, and we've never made the product in Australia.

So it's a very interesting case, but make no mistake, this PFAS stuff is deadly.

Well, I don't know if there's been any.

I mean, I've got no idea about that.

But certainly this stuff has been used around the world.

It hasn't just been sold in Australia.

So I got the quote right.

One nation, if an election was held tomorrow, this weekend, one nation would win 53 seats.

Labor would be down to 76 from 94.

You're sitting down, the coalition, Liberal and Nationals, would have 12.

Let me just repeat that.