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

No, you will find it is very much the right bill. That was 400,000 people who came to this country looking for jobs, but there were only 180,000 new jobs in the country. We desperately need the Galilee Basin to be opened up. The previous speaker referred to Abbott Point. But you have to get the coal out, my friend. To get the coal out you have to have a port.

Mr Bandt interjecting—

Thanks to people like you, instead of dumping that fill where it should be dumped—on the littoral area—and instead of it being used to make new and beautiful land for the people of Australia to live on and enjoy the wonders of this country, it is being dumped out on the reef. It is not being dumped on the reef anyway; that is a bit of rubbish. It is being dumped in an area where there is 40 feet of dumped—

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