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

I move:

That so much of the standing of sessional orders be suspended as would prevent notice No. 3, private members' business, standing in my name, being called on and proceeded with immediately.

There is a matter of immediacy here. I have been down through the Murray-Darling. Read my history book, I advise you all—it is only $35 at all good book stands! In that book, there are five parts. The main part is 'Walking with Giants'. One of the chapters in it is about the Thiess brothers, who built the Snowy Mountains project, and another is about the Snowy Mountains project. This place attempted to sell the greatest achievement of the Australian people—to quote from my book—numbered among the 27 most iconic engineering projects in world history. And we in this place attempted to sell it! But, thanks to the member for New England and the late member for Calare, we were able to use our tiny numbers in this place to have that decision reversed. But, having finished with that, the Liberal-National Party introduced the Water Act, which took away 20 per cent of the basin's water. Heaven only knows the South Australians had a great argument, because all the water was being taken. The South Australians were quite right in fighting for protection of their water rights. But that did not validate the taking of one fifth of the entire water of the basin.

When I went to Mildura, they informed me that there are 85 empty shops in Mildura.

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