Bob Katter’s idea to tackle feral pigs after the NRL grand final
Bored rugby league players should be given rifles and unleashed on national parks to shoot feral pigs and toads in the off season, veteran MP Bob Katter has suggested.
Now that the NRL grand final is over, “a thousand North Queensland rugby league players are bored”, Katter said in his question to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday.
“An idle mind is a devil’s workshop … Please give the boys back their rifles and licensed, I emphasise licensed, access to national parks,” he said.
“Don’t worry about the pests in this place,” he added. “Please, would you worry about the pests in north Queensland?”
In response, Albanese said the government was taking the matter of pest control seriously because invasive species were having a “real impact” on wildlife.
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