House debates

Wednesday, 25 March 2026

Questions without Notice

Indigenous Health: Diabetes

3:03 pm

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

My question is to the Minister for Health and Ageing. Recent data shows 72 deaths in the cape straits and gulf in four years attributable to diabetes. Diabetes, inter alia, results from poor nutrition. Post Country Party, subsequent Labor and Liberal governments abolished the missionary market gardens, banned the islanders' ubiquitous backyard fruit and vegetable gardens and, in an initiative the Nazis would be proud of, took away the islanders' staple diet: seafood. Will you act immediately to stop what some people describe as tantamount to genocide?

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