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

Prime Minister, your completion of the Great Inland Way cuts 1,800 kilometres off the round trip to Melbourne, but there are only intermittent connections to Cairns's paradise coast tourism and its 13 per cent of Australia's farm produce. A tunnel would have rescued 400,000 people trapped last month, resulting in four deaths. Brisbane's population is 1.2 million. Its Olympics gets $62 billion. Brisbane tunnel is $36 billion. North Queensland gets nothing. Prime Minister, please give North Queensland diversion of the upper Herbert, the Seymour-Gairloch bridge, the one-kilometre Bridle tunnel and Queensland governments past and present a kick in the head.

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