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

Minister for Health, data just revealed showed that in the Cape York, Torres Strait and Gulf of Carpentaria region there were 72 deaths in four years attributable to diabetes. Since advanced diabetes cases moved to the coast and since malnutrition causes diabetes and other terminal illnesses, you would agree that each year 60 people are dying who simply don't have to die. Will you reverse government decisions that closed the mission market gardens, banned the Islanders' backyard fruit and vegetables and de facto abolished dinghy fishing?

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