QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr KATTER (Kennedy) (14:59): Treasurer, we praised the Prime Minister for completion of the Great Inland Way. Now, disaster—the closure of copper by Glencore and phosphate by Dyno Nobel. Simultaneously, the government put bananas on the scaffold, accepting an import application from the Philippines—rife with disease and exploited wage earners.

The expiration of the $6 a unit gas agreement precipitated doomsday for copper and phosphate. Our competitors pay $6; Australia pays $16.60. Treasurer, without a reserve resource policy, won't your government preside over the obliteration of Australia's fourth-biggest industrial centre, Mount Isa, and a goodbye to bananas?