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

No, he said there is no decision. He does not understand what he is talking about, Madam Acting Speaker. An IRA is a decision—that is the decision. You do not seem to understand the process. I am quite happy to explain it to the honourable member afterwards. I have fought rearguard actions, as has the member for Mallee, on these issues continuously for a protracted period of time. Devastation has been wrought upon the Australian economy by the decisions which, in the main, were LNP decisions. Most of them took place under the LNP, not under the ALP. I am sure if Mr Keating had been there they would have taken place under him, but he was not there. They were there when all of these things happened. The net result is that this country is now a net importer of fruit and vegetables. This did not happen under the ALP. This happened under you. Each year it got progressively worse, and we have cried and screamed. The honourable member for Leichhardt says that we have got to be truthful and scientific. Well, I am very sorry but, being honest and truthful and scientific, these have endemic contaminating diseases. You should not allow anything that is an endemic contaminating disease to come into your country. Look at what they have permitted. They permitted beef to come in from Brazil!

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