Bob Katter (Kennedy, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

Question to Treasurer: 30 years of deregulation and privatisation has resulted in electricity, at $670 a year for 11 years, exploding to $2,400; housing skyrocketing from $5,600 to $15,000; food markets shrinking to just Woolworths and Coles, resulting in margins between farm gate and housewife soaring from 80 per cent to 300 per cent; outpatients being abolished; the impossibility of getting elective surgery; and retirees and families having to now pay $4,000 a year in medical insurance. Treasurer, is policy going to continue to be based on ideology or judged upon real, tangible outcomes? (Time expired)

Mr Fitzgibbon interjecting—

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