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

I'm 78 years young, Mr Speaker! Minister for Indigenous Australians, are you aware that life expectancy for homelanded First Australians is just 56. Under the ALP government in Queensland, 36,000 cattle have gone, Torres Strait Island backyard fruit and vegetables have gone, the right to water, dinghy fishing and freehold title have gone. Didn't Dick Smith, according to Macca on Sunday, alert Australia to mass malnutrition following the market garden shutdowns? Eight First Australian MPs, Torres Strait's Vonda Malone and the gulf's Clarence Walden were all ignored. Isn't Sarah Maddison right: the only voice government listens to is its own? (Time expired)

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