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    "id": 1120535,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1120535/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1046,
        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it takes in many countries up to 40 to 50 years of serious policy and fiscal interventions to rectify historical and systemic inequities. I will give two examples which will suffice. First, much of Northern and Western Australia which is above 45 per cent of that country is the famous Australian Desert. However, after about 50 years of serious infrastructural and fiscal interventions in that area, it is one of the most highly developed parts of Australia. It contributes significantly to the development of that country although it is a desert country. The areas that we consider waste or desert today could actually be the areas that would provide for this country sustainably as we deplete agricultural potential because of climate change and other factors including population growth. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the second example is the famous World West in America. Much of western parts of the USA just about 100 years ago was wasteland. However, the American Government decided to pump serious money to build infrastructure, connectivity and productivity in that area. As a result of that intervention, today, one of the states in that part of America, California is the sixth biggest economy in the world competing with nation states yet it is just a small state within the federal states of the USA. Los Angeles, Las Vegas, all these big and popular cities are located in what was otherwise a desert. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, therefore, this tendency to equate marginalised areas, dryland areas, pastoralist areas as wasteland actually is erroneous. We must start"
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