Questions raised over slimy Spanish mackerel data
The decision made by Queensland Fisheries to drastically reduce Spanish mackerel quotas across Eastern Queensland, will come into effect on […]
Gulf station workers left washed up in flood funding
To add insult to injury after delivering “stuff all” to the flood-ravaged Gulf, Queensland Government red tape is making it
Why superfunds should invest in resources
NORTH Queensland is the key to achieving the nation’s goals of developing critical mineral industries for batteries, EVs and technology,
Keep cash alive rally instils ‘confidence’ in 3000 petitioners
CASSOWARY Coast residents fighting to keep cash alive are quietly confident their local government will reverse a decision to go
Katter calls on tourists to “GET UP TO THE GULF”
North Queensland’s tourism season is well underway, but small local businesses are reporting one of the slowest starts in years with visitors merely trickling through the doors.
“Patients left languishing as SEQ Olympics scores”
Katter’s Australian Party MPs have slammed the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s “callous” decision to pour regional coal royalties into funding their Brisbane Olympics dream instead of adequately addressing the deficits of the Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme (PTSS).
Charters Towers pens petition for new hospital
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter is elevating community demand for a new hospital in Charters Towers by sponsoring a petition launched by Charters Towers Regional Council.
$30m announced for renewable fuel – NQ sugar primed to deliver
KATTER’S Australian Party (KAP) MP Bob Katter has 30 million “sweet” reasons to celebrate today as his party’s staple emissions reduction and fuel sovereignty policy received a major boost.
The Voice: Beware the Shiny Bauble
The idea that there is a silver bullet to solving the deep-seated challenges and the lack of opportunities facing First Australian communities, especially in regional and rural Australia, while well-intentioned is naïve and ill-informed.
“Katter calls for inquiry into kids’ care at QCGS”
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called for an independent inquiry to be held in the operation of the Queensland Children’s Gender Service.
Media Release: Atherton Hospital extra staffing
Member for Hill Shane Knuth said after many years of lobbying, the $86.4 million upgrade to the Atherton Hospital is almost complete with the opening, just around the corner.
‘It’s ridiculous’: Bodycams have no place in battle
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter has slammed the “ridiculous idea” of soldiers wearing body cams when in combat.
The Voice – Another ‘government department’
WITH the passing of the Voice Referendum today, Katter’s Australian Party MP Bob Katter has questioned the huge cost in time and money on what is, essentially, “the establishment of another government department.”
“Leave our kids alone: warning on trans push”
The passage of Labor’s radical Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Bill 2023 – which enables kids as young as 12 to alter their birth certificate and change their sex – will cause untold harm to vulnerable kids further erode the integrity of Queensland’s child psychiatry sector, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has warned.
Good Australians: Paronella Park owners still ‘on a journey’ after 30 years
THIRTY years ago, the owners of one of Queensland’s most prolific attractions set on a journey around Australia, yet after three decades in business in Far North Queensland, they claim that “journey hasn’t come to a rest.”
2023-24 State Budget lacks middle ground
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has labelled the 2023-24 Queensland Budget as “hit and miss” when it comes to cost-of-living relief and investment in the regions.
Hinchinbrook Island’s Thorsborne Trail scores $1.5m in 2023-2024 State Budget
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto is thrilled to announce Hinchinbrook Island’s Thorsborne Trail has been allocated $1.5 million to upgrade and build new nature-based experiences and facilities in the 2023-2024 State Budget.
What State Budget Means for Traeger: Katter
The recent state budget announcement was filled with cash splashes across the state, but according to Katter’s Australian Party leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter, there are still key areas crying out for help.
Golden opportunity lost as labor squanders Regional Riches
North and regional Queenslanders have been left feeling neglected as the State Government opts to have its cake and eat it too, allocating rich coal royalties to what is more a “climate change Budget” than one designed to improve the lives and futures of all Queenslanders.
Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme increases leave Queenslanders high and dry
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto states the 2023-2024 State Budget leaves patients high and dry following funding increases to the Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme (PTSS) rates.
State budget fails to deliver CT scanner for Ingham Hospital
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto is extremely disappointed that funding for a computed tomography (CT) scanner for Ingham Hospital was neglected in the 2023-2024 State Budget.
Cheaper drugs’ hard to swallow for family chemists
“We’ve seen this nightmare before,” Father of the House and Kennedy MP Bob Katter says on the proposed changes to pharmacy dispensing, comparing the move to the fateful deregulation of Australia’s major industries.
Radical rethink needed as Qld squanders royalties
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called for a radical rethink of Queensland’s future budgets and the introduction of a Western Australia-styled “Royalties for Regions” program.
Burdekin wall increase will benefit China’s solar panels, not farmers: Katter
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter fears the biggest winner from raising the Burdekin Dam wall will be the solar panel industry in China, and not North Queensland’s agriculture sector as he questions the real motive of the investment.
More Out-Of-Control burns heat up pressure on Gov
Not even one month after an uncontrolled fire on Government land triggered Traeger MP Robbie Katter to request an inquiry into the State Government’s aggressive take-up of land without properly resourcing it, several more blazes have broken out.
Dametto welcomes the 2023 sugar cane crushing season
Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto is thrilled to welcome the 2023 sugar cane crushing season.
National park destroyed in suspected back burn ‘gone wrong’
A FAR North national park has been left in ruins, with the once vibrant jungle now portraying scenes of a post-apocalyptic film sparking calls for greater resources to national park management or a return of the land to private grazing hands.
Topaz community working to establish the Topaz Rural Fire Brigade
The Topaz community has come together in an effort to get first responders to incidents in their community quicker by working towards establish the Topaz Rural Fire Brigade.
Bush kids deserve choice in education: Katter
The news that the Palaszczuk Labor Government will increase the Living Away From Home Allowances Scheme (LAFHAS), up $4,000 in 2024, has been welcomed by outback politician Robbie Katter.
Statistics won’t support phasing out cheques in rural, regional Australia
PHASING out cheques will be detrimental to rural and regional transactions and their respective local economies, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) is warning.
Ongoing frustration over Bruce Highway roadworks near El Arish
Road users have been left angry with the constant road works on the Bruce Highway.
POLL: Do you think the “woke brigade” is actively trying to tear down Australia’s proud military tradition?
The modern woke generation consider it a sport to pick on anyone who represents nationalism, a proud Australia. We should revere those who generate money, protect our country and produce wealth for us.
Australia is an ‘industrial backwater’ as Katter looks to Brazil
KATTER’S Australian Party MP and long-term ethanol advocate Bob Katter is calling on the government to part ways with its colonial mentality and stand up against the major corporations to build sovereign fuel capacity.
KAP warns against ‘Budget for Brisbane’
Billions of dollars will be poured in the State’s coffers by coal and mining royalties in the coming financial year, prompting Katter’s Australian Party KAP MPs to call on all rural and regional politicians to back their communities before Brisbane ahead of next week’s Queensland State Budget.
Labor Unites to Cripple Queensland’s Wild Caught Seafood Industry
A decision by the State and Federal Labor Governments to reduce commercial fishing activities in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has sent shockwaves throughout the industry with plans to ban all gillnet fishing by mid-2027.
Port Hinchinbrook – Right Project, Wrong Time
The normalisation of Port Hinchinbrook at Cardwell continues however, after a lengthy due diligence process the marina property and freehold land which is the property of Passage Holdings Limited will remain under the control of liquidators after Queensland development company, Consolidated Properties Group, made the commercial decision to not enter into a contract to purchase the Port Hinchinbrook assets.
State Government misses the mark on housing crisis
A recent survey conducted by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) showed that 80 per cent of landlords were considering selling their investment properties due to the threat of further rent reforms by the State Labor Government.
Cash petitioners treated like ‘rockstars’ in push against council
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter is backing a newly-created petition which is calling on Cassowary Coast Regional Council to reverse its decision of going cashless at its facilities.
Quiet Aus-UK Free Trade clause will ‘decimate’ regional economies
A SNEAKY clause included in the Australia-UK Free Trade agreement has regional Australia feeling anxious about its future workforce supply with Kennedy MP Bob Katter calling for either a “handbrake” on the deal or a government-funded campaign to address labour shortage concerns.
Katter labels Voice ‘Paternalistic, Tokenistic, Divisive’
Katter’s Australian Party MP Bob Katter said the Voice to Parliament, which passed the lower house on Wednesday “made him uncomfortable,” as he didn’t believe it would address the needs of the “fair dinkum First Australians” in the community areas he represents.
Knuth welcomes cattle shoot to kill reforms in national parks
Member for Hill Shane Knuth welcomed recent news of the new Northern Parks regional director Matt Brien giving a commitment to improving cattle management and working with graziers to avoid shooting cattle in National Parks.
Shock report echoes KAP sentiments for Relocation Sentencing
A report published today by the Justice Reform Initiative highlights the ineffectiveness of Queensland’s traditional correctional and detention systems and supports principles of alterative detention models with a focus on alcohol and drug treatment.
Permanent ‘price capping’: Stronger action needed to stop soaring electricity costs
“Price caps, but better” – Katter’s Australian Party MP Bob Katter is urging the Albanese government to make its resource price caps more effective by immediately introducing a Reserve Resource Policy (RRP) which provides a fixed price and supply for coal and gas.
Health Minister committed to Ingham CT scanner
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto, wasted no time in parliament this week meeting staff of the newly appointed Health Minister and also directing a Question Without Notice to the Minister during Question Time on Thursday.
Katter calls on compensation from APA for powerless North West
Another widespread power outage at Diamantina Power Station, affecting the entire North West power system from Mount Isa to Cloncurry, has highlighted the issue with APA’s unregulated monopoly, says Katter’s Australian Party leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter.
Palaszczuk Government writes another YJ hall pass
Legislation was passed in the Queensland Parliament this week making various changes to corrective services legislation within Queensland. One such change was to criminalise the act of adult prisoners gaining access to restricted areas of correctional centres, namely rooftops.
Fight for Mid-West’s Future Hangs on H20: Katter
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter says the “marathon” bureaucracy battle being fought to build the mid-west’s Hughenden Irrigation Project (HIPCo) has been recently buoyed by the Albanese Federal Government’s re-commitment to its $170 million funding pledge.
KAP seeks Security of Nation Building Infrastructure in Exchange for Olympics
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) have joined forces with other members of the Queensland crossbench to fight for better nation building infrastructure in the regions.
Federal MP’s office broken into, slams revolving door of youth crime
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter is frustrated with the “revolving door” of youth crime policy, sympathising with Queensland’s juvenile offenders caught up in the system, following an alleged break into his Mount Isa electorate office late Sunday night.
Katter puts Plibersek’s water commitment to the test
JUST one day after the $5.5m announcement for North Queensland water planning, Kennedy MP Bob Katter put that commitment to the test by inviting the Federal Environment and Water Minister to tour Big Rocks Weir at Charters Towers.