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

The current government has for seven years and two elections promised the development of water in northern Australia. There is not a shovel load of concrete across a gutter in all of North Queensland. The rest of Australia has no rivers available, thanks to the green elements in the Liberal Party and in the Labor Party and in the Greens party. The party, I might add, of desolation and poverty is the fate of the people of northern Australia. We have three quarters of Australia's water and we are using virtually none of it. Outside of North Queensland there is only one river available for use and that is the Ord, and it has been given, not sold, to the Chinese. So we have the Ord—a development of the Chinese by the Chinese for the Chinese. That is—

Ms Madeleine King interjecting—

There is a lady here from the ALP who is disagreeing with this. She is obviously a supporter of giving our water resources to the Chinese. What's your name? What's your electorate?

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