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

There are no public liability insurers left in Australia that will underwrite show rides. The insatiable greed of the university law schools, producing unconscionable numbers of undergraduates, is a locomotive driving this anti-freedom machine. Australians are going to have the iron ball shackled to our ankles. The unconscionable, untrammelled rapaciousness of the power elites has taken every aspect of our culture, our freedom and our fun. I represent the freedom and fun party. Our enemies are the boa constrictors of Australian life. They have taken off us the right to protect our homes and our country. They violate our person at airports, with pat-down action that in any other circumstance is banned by law. This is justified to achieve safety in the skies, when there hasn't been an incident in 30 years.

A bloke can't boil a billy over a camp fire. He can't have a drink at the pub anymore. A bloke can't have a smoke. He can't have admiration for women's beauty without charges of sexual harassment. He can't fish. He can't camp. He can't hunt. He can't shoot. We have the politically correct brigade strongly banning body contact in our great game of rugby league. They've taken all of this off us under the guise of 'what is good for us'. We have the PC class telling us what is good for us. Now they are taking our school fetes, circuses, rodeos, country shows, exhibitions and music festivals. These bureaucratic— (Time expired)

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