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    Kattertonia: The Wit and Wisdom of Bob Katter

    By Russell Marks

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    What's going on under that hat?

    In these pages we life the brim and uncover the words of a true-blue Aussie who shoots from the hip.

    Bob Katter doesn't hold back when it comes to himself: 'There is a rage in my soul, a hatred in my soul.'

    Far-north Queensland: 'It is a magic land and we could support a population of 80 million people in the Gulf Country alone.'

    Women: 'He said that I considered women second-class citizens. If they were staying at home and not working then I would not consider them second-class; I would consider them first-class citizens.'

    Environmental activists: 'not a race of people that I like in any way, shape or form.'

    The information age: 'I have long since given up reading journals and newspapers and watching the television, because the flow of information is so erroneous and misleading.'

    Gay rights: 'If homosexuality is a fashion statement, it is a very dangerous fashion statement. '

    The live cattle trade industry: 'They're people that love their animals, sort of.'

    And that's just a taste of Kattertonia . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Inc. Books
    Release dateFeb 1, 2013
    ISBN9781921870927
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    Kattertonia: The Wit and Wisdom of Bob Katter
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    Russell Marks

    Russell Marks is a practising lawyer, has a PhD in political history and is an adjunct research fellow at La Trobe University. He is the author of Crime and Punishment: Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System, and has been published in The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Overland, Inside Story and the Australian Book Review.

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    • 2/5
      Nothing exciting here. It's your normal "collection of odd things said by person x" book, and in this case said person is Bob Katter, "maverick" Australian independent federal politician representing a big chunk of north Queensland.Make no mistake, Katter is an odd chap; "mad as a cut snake" is the first term that comes to mind when thinking about him, and he does have some odd ideas and some even odder ways of explaining them. He is also no friend of the Gay and Lesbian community (and those from San Francisco in particular). To cite just one example, he said, on 13 October 1994, "New South Wales ... has its gay Mardi Gras and skites about all the people that came out from San Francisco, the city of a million people and 20000 AIDS cases, presumably to bring their pestilence and plague with them."It goes on but you do not have to. I'd recommend reading another book instead.