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

Prime Minister, are you aware 93 per cent of Australia's land mass contains 74 per cent of our water but only one million people? Are you aware that North Queensland's north-western gulf has three of Australia's biggest rivers and has 11 irrigation occupation cultivation production ballot projects? Prime Minister, you are aware of Carl von Clausewitz—a people without land will look for a land without people. If Queensland's auction system is allowed, big corporations—foreign—will get everything, all of the water, and locals nothing. Prime Minister, will these 11 projects, based on the Griffith-Emerald-Mareeba experience, take 300,000 people from big city slum land into a prosperous golden future? (Time expired)

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