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

The free marketeers: now see what happens when you want to buy everything from overseas. We're buying 30 per cent of everything we consume, just about, from China. If we bring something in from China now, it can have coronavirus bacteria on it. Even if it's a steel cabinet, it may have coronavirus on it. It comes in in ships manned by Chinese people or put on the wharf by Chinese people in China. So suddenly you can't get all this cornucopia of largesse that you were going to get through your free market system.

Let me be very specific: 80 per cent of petrol comes from overseas—not necessarily from China—so you're going to have to walk everywhere because you're not going be able to get any petrol; 30 per cent of toilet rolls come from overseas, so too bad about that problem; don't play cricket in the backyard if you're in Melbourne during winter or in Townsville during summer, because 90 per cent of your glass comes from overseas, maybe more; and 70 per cent of your soap and toothpaste comes from overseas. Surely these commodities, that are so essential for the functioning of any proper 21st-century society, should be made— (Time expired)

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