Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

Prime Minister, won't your micro-irrigation schemes, templating at Hughenden, mitigate giant floods now killing two million kangaroos, miring birdlife in mud, pushing dunnarts towards extinction and eroding away billions of tonnes of the world's richest topsoils? With one-tenth of the cattle industry, it's job people and follow on are unable to survive any increased debt. Must not government buy the bank mortgages, surely now worth 25 per cent less? With debt 25 per cent less and interest reduced from seven per cent to government rates of 2.5 per cent, surely this restores the area's tax revenues of $300 million by, most essentially, facilitating restocking?

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