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

As an intellectually aware and intelligent person I asked a pharmacist, 'What happens now?' He said: 'Well, my income has halved and I don't know whether I can survive. I suppose I will just have to sell out, and the only buyer out there will be Chemist Warehouse or Terry White. So that is what's going to happen.'

Just when do you people stop? When does the parliament of Australia stop destroying the owner-operator class and start to deliver the country to the people who sell food in this country? Everything else is bought from overseas and now you're destroying the pharmacies? When do you stop? Madam Deputy Speaker, when I say, 'When do you stop?', I don't mean the ALP; I mean both sides of this parliament, and that's probably the reason why, when I came to this place, there was one person on the crossbench and now there's 17. You keep going and we'll be the majority—the crossbench. You keep going. Have a look at the figures in Queensland. If you want to know what they think of how you're governing Australia, have a look at the polling in Queensland; it's very depressing for us, because we were hoping to get the balance of power. You will be annihilated. If the Liberal Party was in there—

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