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

I second the motion. I greatly appreciate the honourable member for moving this legislation.

The case of Chalumbin, which featured in a national magazine, the Spectator, was most notorious. The biggest wind farm in Australia was proposed to be put within a few hundred metres of some of the last remnant jungle on earth. There is very little jungle left on earth, and they were going to put this giant wind farm a few hundred metres from Chalumbin. We praised then Minister Plibersek from stopping that proposal from going ahead. The university professor who was leading the battle against Chalumbin had said, 'You've got to stand back and say, "What is happening here?"' What was happening was that a beautiful nature wonderland was being turned into an industrial wasteland.

Proof positive of what he was saying there was the dismantling of the wind farm, which is no longer producing any electricity. It's worn out. They took the blades down and dumped them on Kidner's property without any permission. The company that did it vanished, so the Kidners couldn't sue anyone. It made national television. This is a beautiful area, a nature wonderland bordering on remnant jungles, very little of which are left on earth. These huge blades, which could stretch right across this room, were dumped there. (Time expired)

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