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

Deputy Prime Minister, on 4 March didn't you say, 'We must be a nation of vision. One thing we can do is build Bradfield,' rightly claiming this banishes flood, fire and drought? Why then have you allowed self-appointed elitists to abolish Bradfield's Hells Gate, reducing it from six million megalitres to two million; from 120,000 hectares of western desert uplands irrigated into $4 billion of annual production, to a $300 million a year pygmy scheme not out west but adjacent to and polluting the Barrier Reef?

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