Hon Katter MP in conversation with Ben Waters at Farm Writers' NSW.
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00:00How are you going, Bob?
00:08Fire away.
00:09Fire away.
00:10I'm different than other people, I'm very scared of popularity, you know, I watched
00:18Pejoki Peterson, 1200 people get up and give a standing ovation for 15 minutes, and the
00:23next year when he was going to jail, there were 23 of us there, you know, and there was
00:29a bloke 2000 years ago who had a bit of an experience like that, so yeah, I'm very mistrustful
00:34of popularity.
00:35If you asked me this question 18 months ago, I'd say no, they're as useful as mammary glands
00:42on a bull.
00:47And anyway, the Liberals were all yelling out, bloody country party, they wouldn't know
00:50what culture means, and Turner leaned around his bloke and kept yelling out, bloody country
00:56party, wouldn't know what culture means, and he grabbed him by the throat, pulled him
01:00out of his chair and he said, we do so know what culture means, it means agri-culture.
01:04I mean, honestly, you hear people so stupid that you believe in a politician's promise
01:17before an election, I mean, you know, they've been there for 16 of the last 22 years or
01:23whatever it is, why haven't they done it?
01:26If they're so keen on doing it, why didn't they do it?
01:32Ladies can, please excuse me if you're using bad language, but those bastards, when they'd
01:37found out that Mount Isa had applied for the Winter Olympics, they put in for Batuta, you
01:44know, I mean, fair go fellas, you know, I mean, that's just not playing square, you
01:48know, they're a pack of mongrels, I'm telling you, you know.
01:54I found out, to my great happiness, that having the balance of power is a lot more powerful
02:04than being the government, you know, I mean, you can just, don't ask, you tell them what
02:11you want, and we are very close to getting balance of power in Queensland, and when we
02:16get it, it's back to the country party, and if we were ruthless and brutal, I don't think
02:21we've ever seen anything yet, because three of our blokes played very serious rugby league,
02:26and they're not nice people, you know.
02:30Methane reduction, what do you think is going to be the best sort of solutions there?
02:35Well, if you find a solution, could you apply it to my two dogs, who are sitting in the
02:40lounge room, and, no, look, it's hard to be serious, it is hard to be serious, isn't it?
02:52They're all greenies, and they said, yeah, well, that's good, we've got too many people,
02:57now.
02:58Oh, so we're going to starve people, starve them to death, are we, that's your solution?
03:03Well, no one laughed, I thought it was very funny, but they didn't laugh.
03:12And I have never seen a weaker front bench in 50 years in Parliament than that Liberal
03:19front bench, except for Dutton and Heistie, and I'll shut up on that note.