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

My question is to the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Is the minister aware of the pain being imposed on those who rallied at Parliament House this morning over the government's sterilisation of the Coral Sea and the gulf by creating the world's largest marine park in a country which already has the world's lowest fish harvest rate? Could the minister revisit these decisions in light of the knowledge that these people, stripped of their right to earn a living, will lose cars, homes, families and, very sadly, in some cases their lives? The Liberal-National marine park closures took 2,000 jobs from North Queenslanders. Is the minister trying to break their record? (Time expired)

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