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

Finally, the minister would be aware that the top one-third of Australia has 300 million megalitres of water but negligible farming, whilst the bottom two-thirds, with only 80 million megalitres, has almost all of Australia’s food production. Since most of Australia’s food comes from the crippled Murray-Darling, would the minister not agree that unless dams and weirs are built in Northern Australia the country will not be the do-nothing, free-trading Mr Tim Fischer’s food bowl of Asia but its basket case? Would the minister not agree that the task force verdict on Northern Australia—no water—has led to Australia’s verdict on the task force: no brains?

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