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

Is the Prime Minister aware that Biosecurity Australia’s decision to allow the importation of Filipino bananas will cost 6,000 Australians their jobs and the economy $350 million a year? Does the Prime Minister agree with Biosecurity’s proposition that 22 million cartons of bananas will flow in but not one single insect egg or microspore of bacteria will? Further, is the Prime Minister aware that in the last seven years Biosecurity has said yes to every single application and that such neoliberalism has now cost Australia, with equine flu and similar AQIS initiatives, over $2,000 million? Finally, could the Prime Minister advise, if the agency’s policy is simply never to say no, could the Karumba Progress Association—or possibly a flock of galahs—tender for the Biosecurity contract?

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