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

My question is to the Treasurer. Far North Queensland—paradise—is Australia's No. 2 destination for tourists, a quarter of whom are backpackers. It is a tourism industry only facilitated by working on bananas, mangoes, avocados and horticulture. Surely imposing a punitive backpacker tax combined with pointless superannuation pain threatens $1 billion a year in tourism and $1 billion a year in horticulture?

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