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

I strongly back the member for Indi in this initiative and applaud her for seeing a very big hole in this legislation. We would like the minister to seriously consider what we're saying. Without the member for Indi's amendments, I think we'll be left out completely.

We have to accept that to buy a house in Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney or Melbourne the average price is over $130,000. Clearly that is the heart of the problem, but that doesn't mean that in the city of Atherton, where the Lions Club is building housing for the people there—there is a school teacher I mentioned earlier today, paying $300 a week for a place on a verandah with an umbrella in Atherton.

There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that democracy is not fair, it is not just; it is the will of the majority, and that may be anything but fair and just. In this case, you will watch the minority get everything and the majority get left out as usual. So I absolutely applaud the member for Indi for seeing a hole in this legislation, and I plead with the government to understand that they need this clause in the legislation.

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