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

Prime Minister, our computers advised that, after Newcastle and Gladstone, Mount Isa is Australia's biggest industrial centre. Most of Mount Isa is to vanish. Can the Prime Minister activate government to detour this pending disaster and reassure us that the essential service, the copper smelter, is to be owned by an entity partly, inter alia, answerable to the Australian people—further, that a gas reserve resource policy be urgently initiated to forestall the closure of this and the thousand-million-dollar-a-year Mount Isa fertiliser plant?

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