Australian Federal Government - Member For Kennedy
Government in Cassowary Coast

Supermarket giants continue to torment dairy farmers. Upon acceptance as a Member of the Party, the Member automatically becomes a Member of the State or Territory Division incorporating the electorate in which the Member is enrolled to vote or otherwise resides. However, our foreign competitors can use chemicals not approved for use in Australia and processes with the greatest levels of health risks streptomycin on apples from New Zealand to combat fire blight a pesticide for citrus totally banned in Australia sewage from waste water going into prawns from fish farms in Vietnam. As far as the risk to human health goes, it is very authentic and very immediate. His reason for putting Australians' health at risk was to assist other countries to export product into Australia. But it’s a very diverse story with imported seafood, such as maximum of the prawns sold in Australian shops being grown overseas in waters contaminated with sewage, he said. They must know some of these people. By that time the market share of the two supermarket giants had risen to 65 per cent. Increase that to the 74 per cent they had in 2002 and you have 92 per cent, and we are still doing nothing in this place. We will remain to put pressure at both a state and federal level until we see that an arbitrated price for milk is returned to our dairy farmers. The cost of corporatising the electricity industry in Queensland is 1,700 per home per year. Probably the most important argument of all in a country like Australia is about when you say that the government is out of building development infrastructure. When the government's total income was around 3,00 million a year we borrowed 1,00 million and built the railway line. Nearly 30 per cent of this nation's complete income from overseas, for the final 50 years, has reach from coal. We both agree on one thing: this country was built by government building the ports, the railways and those prosperity that were necessary for the development of our country. But the main costs of living are none of those things actually they are housing, health, food and petrol. This budget, by putting up the price of petrol, will amplify the cost of food very significantly. I represent only seven per cent of the surface area of Australia, but I have got over 50 per cent of the water. What we say to you be: put the ethanol in and your country will be 23,00 million a year richer. Ethanol can yield 23 thousand million dollars a year in income for this country. If the Queensland state government would have got in and agreed to the ALP government's 320 million donate the ALP government in Queensland rejected it so it was bipartisan in its rejection we would have 10,00 million dollars a year future out of the North West Queensland Mineral Province. I admit that many of the issues he raised in his inquire are important, they are crucial to our nation and they will be important in tonight's budget. It will make a difference to all Australians, and I believe that the member for Kennedy will unite the members on this side of the House, when it comes to a vote or when it goes to a vote in the Senate, to make safe that the majority of the people in the House actually deliver those cheaper electricity promises that we will be committing to in tonight's budget. We have been supportive of the ethanol industry in the past, and the budget tonight will be impartial also to the ethanol industry.