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

Treasurer, the ABC reported in October that we're officially a vanishing race, with birthrates halving as families struggle to make ends meet and the cost of starting a family simply out of reach. Will you implement your own advocacy with a federal overriding of the states' regulatory impositions—impositions that strangle home building—break up the cold and worthless duopoly, delivering a 30 per cent reduction in food prices, and get real lairy, enforcing Morris Iemma's ethanol initiative and resilient petrol prices—$1.10 a litre? Treasurer, can you join Red Ted and Black Jack on the wall of fame by turning Australia off our current highway to extinction?

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