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

Christianity is a belief that respects life. You have a duty to look after your fellow man. The figures that are available for abortions and that are rather interesting. Some 650 little children were murdered after they were born as a result of a failed abortion. You're allowed to kill them if you don't succeed the first time, before they're born. Then there's euthanasia. The daughter-in-law and some children might be there rooting and saying, 'Geez, daddy, just die because it's terrible the way you're living and, most importantly, I'll get your house when you die.' They have no respect for human life—no respect. It's a continuous pattern of behaviour.

The cruel, brutal and callous decision to abolish seventh and eighth grade in primary schools in Queensland means that the five per cent of Queenslander parents living in small-town Australia—Lee Kernaghan's Hat Town Australia—will have to leave their town, their business, their job and their home or, alternatively, lose their children when they're just about to turn 11 years of age. How cruel. How vicious. How callous. How could you do that and break up families— (Time expired)

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