Bob Katter's Indonesia: a Christian nation missing 17,954 of its islands Bob Katter is a member of Parliament who said the following things about Indonesia on the ABC, unchallenged: PARTY: ... it may have been heroic and it may have been a morally excellent thing for us to do, to go into East Timor, but there are 240 million people jammed onto six tiny little islands and we took half of one of those islands off them. That is the way Jakarta television played out what happened. Then there was this: BOB KATTER: We were at war with Indonesia over them cutting off, effectively, the oil supply of Shell. We cut off their food supply. Now, in this case they have continuously returned. They have been the Christian nation here. Love your neighbour: they have exemplified that. Curiously, the ABC transcript substitutes "question" for "Christian," as if the ABC transcribers simply couldn't believe Katter would really praise a Muslim nation of 245 million people on 18,000 islands as "Christian." But Katter than does it again in a rant that sounds more like substance-inspired free-form poetry than political analysis: BOB KATTER: By the end of this year myself and the cattle crisis committee through our endeavours and the great Christianity - even though he's not a Christian - of the Indonesian ambassador, we got the market restored. So the price is going up now. I mean, we've restored seven per cent of the demand for beef, for Australian beef. Seven per cent is back. Well, I mean, through the intransigence of the Prime Minister and the most extraordinary behaviour of the Leader of the Opposition in following him with all I can say is truculent stupidity, but remember that Mr Shorten now has agreed with him. His party hasn't... you quite rightly pointed out no one else in his party agrees with, and I don't think there are too many in the Liberal Party that agree with the Prime Minister's position. Thanks to reader Anthony.