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

In addressing this matter I want to say that I fully realise that the intentions of the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation are good and we very much admire work done by the minister in many areas. But in this area I have a lot of specialist trainers in my electorate, particularly in the field of the first Australians and in the field of rural activities, and we have a very big organisation called RITE that works out of Charters Towers and is probably the leading trainer of people going onto cattle stations in Australia. But, of course, what is most relevant to us is the 40,000 jobs and I can serve notice here that neither the ALP nor the LNP are going to be flying workers in from overseas. Those 40,000 jobs will belong to Australians. Addressing the actual amendment that has come before us—

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