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

I commend the minister at the table, the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. Mr Deputy Speaker Causley, you would be well aware that one of the great failings of this parliament, when compared with the state houses—and why the state houses are much closer to the people—is that ministers do not sit in this House and listen to the speeches. This is one of the first times that I have seen a minister come into the House and listen to the opposition’s arguments and his own party’s arguments—and listen seriously.

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