QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr KATTER (Kennedy) (14:59): Treasurer, young mothers today must have a paying job and be a wife, cook, family bookkeeper, kid chauffeur, house cleaner, laundry lady and go to church on Sunday. Not surprisingly, when 20 Australians die, only 15 will be born. Advance Australia Fair is Hughenden's irrigation scheme.

Fifteen Hughendens would create 3,000 farms, 10,000 owner-operator businesses and 100,000 homes with backyards. Hughenden has had $170 million allocated now for eight years. Queensland dithers.

Will you create a water authority and call tenders? Treasurer, you won't get a portrait; you'll get a statue!