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

I'm not coming at this from the classical religious point of view that an embryo is life. Probably the greatest man I've ever met in my life was Dr Harvey Sutton, who was an Anglican priest as well as a doctor and a man revered in his lifetime. He said that an embryo was not a life. He was very anti-abortion, but they are two separate issues. So I'm not going at this from a classical religious point of view.

I've been a cattleman all my life, and you line breed, but if you line breed very assiduously you will get some very serious problems. I think most people who read history books know the aristocracy in Europe had dreadful problems because they were inbred.

An honourable member interjecting —

Look, it's a serious matter, and I don't think it requires frivolity. I really don't.

An honourable member interjecting —

The member is laughing. I mean, he seriously thinks it is a funny matter.

My generation watched movies like 'Dr Moreau's island', and they were very, very scary.

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