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

My question is for the Minister for the Environment and Water. There are 24,000 kilometres of prickly melodica weed tree, the worst environmental disaster in our history. It is reducing what some have described as Australia's best natural grasslands into degraded, eroded wastelands bereft of native flora and fauna, dooming, inter alia, the western dunnart, to extinction. Minister, as North Queensland's mid-west population has fallen from 40,000 to 24,000, will the Hughenden irrigation scheme be a template for overcoming the degradation and creating the freedom of property and space, a nature wonderland of hope, prosperity and— (Time expired)

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