Bob Katter has sparked outrage with his comments (Picture: Michael Masters/Getty Images)

An Australian MP has sparked outrage after claiming gay people infected children with AIDS, while also blaming them for murders.

Bob Katter – who previously refused to use the word gay – added that ‘homosexual behaviour’ is responsible for suicides during a ridiculous tirade in Australia’s House of Representatives.

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His outrageous and homophobic rant on Wednesday night, which came just hours after politicans voted in favour of a same-sex marriage bill, also saw him claim that gay people have only existed ‘for maybe 60 years’.

The Member for Kennedy in Queensland, who was one of just four to vote against the bill, said: ‘The people advocating this proposition tonight, the LGBTIs, have maybe 60 years on their side.




‘I have 3.5 million years of genetic programming on my side, because we human beings, they tell us, have been around for 3.5 million years.

Katter voted against the bill (Picture: EPA/Lukas Coch)

‘One thing that is absolutely certain is that we’ve all developed from heterosexual couples.

‘That is one thing we know absolutely—up until the last 40 years, anyway. So, genetically, we are programmed that way.

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‘If you want to make a young lad between the age of nine or 10 and 15 go to school wearing a dress, you’ll seriously mess with his head.’

Katter’s extraordinary polemic continued as he told the story of a mother who was told her sons had to go to school in a dress.

‘Throughout history, in the range and breadth of human history, there is no precedent for this sort of rubbish taking place,’ he said.

‘Do you think seriously that the LGBT group are going to stop here?’

Katter claimed gay people have only existed for 60 years (Picture: EPA/Lukas Coch)

His speech, recorded in Hansard, drew a link between suicides and homosexuality: ‘If you analyse why this country continuously has the highest male juvenile suicide rates in the world there is something going wrong here.

‘We have an extraordinary incidence of homosexual behaviour in Australia compared with other nations, and I think the people who have been speaking for this bill would agree with me on that.’

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Katter also claimed AIDs only existed with intravenous drug users and homosexuals and added: ‘You talk about equality. They wanted equality in the giving of blood.

‘They said, “We as homosexuals have a right to give blood,” so they did, and I think 72 children were injected with AIDS from the blood that was given. It was hushed up.’

He mentioned two murder cases involving gay people, and said: ‘There’s no doubt there is a DNA thing there, and some people can handle it but a lot of people can’t. And there is a very, very ugly side to this, where the curtain comes down and we’re not allowed to talk about it.’

His speech drew ridicule from other MPs with member for Sturt Christopher Pyne saying: ‘Bobby, this is rubbish.’

Earlier that day the Australian Parliament finally passed same-sex marriage into law after a long fight which included 20 failed bills.

Australians celebrated the historic day, and the new law will likely take effect in about a month.