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

In the cattle industry, the numbers are down 20 per cent. Our dairy industry is down nearly 15 per cent. Our sugar industry is down 10 per cent. I do not know anything about wheat so I will have to leave that out.

He was a wonderful success story, wasn’t he! Half of Australian agriculture has vanished without trace under the leadership and the policies of the likes of the member for Goldstein. The Special Minister of State shakes his head. Come back here and give me the figures and show me where I am wrong. Do not come here and shake your head and disagree when your ignorance is so towering that you do not know what the figures are. Go and have a fight with Alan Jones.

Mining prices have not doubled. I quoted in this place that they had doubled. And I was very surprised to find out, from a very senior person, that they had more than doubled but the money has not come back to Australians. (Time expired)

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