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

Prime Minister, you'd be aware that three appropriations bills before the House require a hundred billion dollars in funding. The appropriation 10 years ago required only $50 billion. Another $50 billion is required to house the 400,000 people coming from overseas each year, particularly the 92 per cent of them who go to Sydney and Melbourne. Wouldn't the urgent demand of 80 per cent of Australians to stop migration save $50 billion this year, plus wouldn't a reserve resource policy on gas provide another $32 billion a year? Greenlighting the Galilee coal project and its rail line would provide yet another $17 billion. Shouldn't the government be about carrying out the will of the people and creating economic development?

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