Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I have a question without notice to the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. Is the minister aware that environmental legislation, in the light of the explosion of flying fox numbers, has placed in jeopardy much of the fruit and vegetable industry and is forcing people to abandon their homes? Is the minister aware that, in the cases Booth v Bosworth and Booth v Yardley, it was established that this legislation authorises the pimping on and prosecution of ordinary Australians? Finally, is the minister aware that the 2005 report by Queensland Health states that flying foxes carry SARS, hendra disease, salmonella, leptospirosis—

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