House debates Questions without Notice
Agriculture
Bob Katter Kennedy, Independent
2:19 pm
Agriculture minister: farm debt in 2003 was $31 billion and is now $64 billion. Thirty thousand families have exited farming. Will the minister restore an ag bank lending at two per cent from Treasury's three; pressure Queensland to provide every northern landholder with a 200 hectare freehold irrigation block; and provide four $50 million loans, creating an abattoir in four gulf mid-west watering works, each with 50 such blocks?
Ms MacTiernan interjecting—
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