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

This country is drowning in a flood of 'foreign' migration—and I use the word 'foreign' in inverted commas. I come from a town where almost all of us are from some sort of minority grouping somewhere along the track, and a lot are First Australians. We're regarded as a minority group, too, I can tell you. I'm speaking as one of them.

I saw nearly a hundred people standing in front of the great symbol of Australia, the Sydney Opera House, screaming, 'Gas the Jews.' These Australians don't even remotely resemble Australians. Australians would spit on them. So, if you want to be champions for some overseas cause, then you go back overseas and you bloody well stay there. You don't come to this country and murder 15 people at Bondi—like you did. When I say these things and I say them with rage, they reflect the feelings of the Australian people.

You have done nothing else except promote Pauline Hanson magnificently well. Well, now you're really going to get chewed up. You created the monster, if it is a monster. I'd say it's probably not a monster. I'd say it's probably a lot of good things. But I'm just saying that you created it. You sowed the wind; now you'll reap the whirlwind.

If you think it's only going to hit the Liberal Party, it's not the way this works. Having watched and been involved in political fights for well over 50 years, I can tell you this is not the way the thing works out in the end. And I want to conclude by saying that, when you quote the immigration figures, that's just silly, because there are over 300,000—nearly 400,000—students coming in each year, and they don't leave. So you've got 400,000 there. You've got another 400,000 coming in legally. That's nearly a million a year. Within 15 years we'll be a minority in our own country.

I happen to love Australians, and I happen to love us being Australians. Well, we ain't going to be Australians. We'll be something else. It might be a very ugly something else. Having said that, I say 'integration'. Do they come from a country with democracy—North Africa, the Middle East? No. Do they come from a country with rule of law? No. Do they come from a country with industrial awards? No. Do they come from a country with Christianity? And I make no apologies for saying that any moderate student of history—and I'm not a moderate student of history; I'm published historian author. It's pretty hard to get a history book published, I can tell you. Christianity is integral, whether you like it or not. The year of our lord 2026 is 2026 years since the birth of Christ. Every aspect of our lives is put there to some degree from the great Christian movement. And all it says is: you've got a responsibility to look after your fellow man. That's all Christianity says. You've got a responsibility to look after your fellow man. But there are people that believe that their fellow man should be stamped out unless he agrees with them. And those people coming to this country, screaming out, 'Gas the Jews.' Well, why don't you go over and live in Nazi Germany where you bloody well belong? Excuse my language, Madam Speaker.

In conclusion, these are the figures that have been given to us. Of 340,000 student visas each year, only 40,000 are leaving the country. That's 300,000 people. Another 400,000 are coming in on immigration visas. And if you talk about criteria, there are five I mentioned before. I don't want to go over it. If you take those five principles—well, alright. The Filipinos—tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. The Indonesians—well, they might not be Christian, but as for the other four criteria, I'd argue maybe. Poland—tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. There's miles of country out there where people would die to come to this country. When you put it all together, we really have the highest standard of living in the world because we have houses with land around the houses, which is very, very civilised. Other countries don't have that. I would say that we are arguably the richest people on earth, so people want to come here. And God bless them for wanting to come here. But you're not coming here to make us the country that you came from. There's no doubt in my mind that there are a certain group of people that fit into that category.

I say in conclusion that, obviously, in the live cattle business, we have huge interface with people from Indonesia, and we just find them lovely people—very civilised, very lovely people. There are other exceptions to the rule. But I saw in my country 70 or 80 people standing in front of the Opera House screaming, 'Gas the Jews,' and, to the eternal shame of the New South Wales government, they did absolutely nothing about it. People were advocating murder, classifying themselves as Nazis, and nothing was done about it whatsoever. That's except for one person who had the temerity to stand up as an Australian and say, 'Hey, we don't do that in this country.' The police carted him away. They didn't cart away these fellows advocating murder. The police carted him away.

The immigration department allowed those two people into this country. They allowed them to go back to a terrorist training area and then let them back in the country. They had them on an ASIO watch list, and they allowed them to buy three high-powered rifles. In fairness to the Liberal government in New South Wales, they would not give them a permit to own a rifle, so they couldn't own a rifle legally—not that that stops you very much. (Time expired)

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