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

I will explain it to you later on; it is a bit difficult for you. Is the minister further aware that the New South Wales and Queensland premiers are mandating renewable fuel ethanol targets starting with New South Wales in September, and that, as in the United States, New South Wales states its main motivation to be the necessity to reduce lung disease deaths from motor vehicle emissions, which this government’s chief air quality scientist, Dr Beer, the AMA and the lung council all state are causing more deaths than motor vehicle accidents? Finally, in light of the continued statements by previous government spokesmen that people should have choice, would the minister not agree that this is a staggering hypocrisy when smoking is ubiquitously banned as is lead in petrol, which extraordinarily has been replaced by the far more dangerous PAHs—the carcinogenic aromatics?

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