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

Mr Deputy Speaker—to 42c a litre. They had their income taken from 59c to 42c a litre.

The new LNP government in Queensland has announced that they will be flying in miners from overseas. Well, we will see about that, because this is going to be one of the great battles in Queensland's history. This person is a little bit carried away with himself I suspect. Maybe he is entitled to be; he has had a very great victory. But a very great victory in a battle does not give you the war. And if he thinks he is going to fly 40,000 miners into the Galilee Basin to mine those mines, taking Australian jobs away and undermining our pay, he can think again.

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