Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Sixty per cent—I am corrected by the member for Page, who is very knowledgeable in this area. They have 22 million megalitres of water that is producing 60 per cent of Australia’s agricultural produce. In the Gulf Country, we have 126 million megalitres of water. We would be flat out producing two per cent, and our right to access that water has been taken away from us with no compensation.

If you are going to steal our property rights from us, you should at least not tax us on the small modicum of compensation for the outrageous theft of the property rights that we once owned. That single distinguishing feature that enabled the Anglos to leap ahead of the rest of the world has seen our poor First Australians reduced to the state that they are in. This distinguishing feature, private property, will be taken from us today unless we address the problem. A small part of the redress is contained in this motion of the member for New England. (Time expired)

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