POLL: Are You Concerned About the Rising Cost of Living?
Is the rising cost of living affecting you? Take our poll and let us know.
Fears Police Link Flaws Hiding Crime Spree Iceberg: Katter
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called on Police Minister Mark Ryan to rule out on what he believes could be the “systemic, chronic and possibly deliberate” under-reporting of crime across Queensland.
QLD Health Minister Rejects Dametto’s Call to Increase Patient Travel Subsidy
Queensland’s Health Minister has maintained that the Patient Transport Subsidy Scheme (PTSS) reflects modern day standards and is in no hurry to review the outdated PTSS despite acknowledging the fact that Queenslanders in rural and remote locations incur significant additional costs when accessing specialist health services.
Jockey School is in to Save Dying Country Racing
As country racing has kicked off in western Queensland in recent weeks, momentum is building for a “jockey school” – or mentoring program – to recruit more jockeys and track staff to offset crippling shortages.
North West flooding leaves small businesses hanging onto life raft
The recent flooding throughout North West Queensland has wreaked havoc, destroying homes, properties and businesses, many of which do not fit within current funding guidelines and boundaries leaving them without any support.
Northern leaders unite for Hinchinbrook RegenAqua Project
A joint partnership between James Cook University and Australian company Pacific Biotechnologies Pty Ltd has resulted in world-leading technology that organically converts waste and sewerage water to clean, healthy re-usable water and Hinchinbrook could soon be home to one of these projects known as RegenAqua.
Katter’s uranium call: ‘Premier, get over the past’
Queensland is missing out on billions of dollars in mining activity due to the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s ideological opposition to opening up the State’s uranium industry.
Dametto Warns Queensland Parliament of Tiktok Dangers
Popular social media application TikTok, has caused nation-wide concern based on the app’s links to China. The app’s parent company, ByteDance is a Chinese owned company and globally, there is fear that data obtained by the app might be accessible to the Chinese government.
Troubled Bush Kids Punching goals in Brisbane
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter is backing a program sending young, troubled Indigenous boxers from Mount Isa to a City vs Bush tournament in Brisbane as a meaningful circuit-breaker against spiralling youth crime.
Nothing on the scoreboard’: Safeguard to destroy another industry, 200,000 jobs
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter delivered an electric speech in Federal Parliament on Monday lamenting the proposed collapse of a 200,000-job industry through the latest Safeguard Mechanism Bill amendments.
Lucrative NQ roads stuck in a rut while $7BN rail “Sinkhole” forges on
Critical Gulf roads that support hundreds of millions of dollars annually are now unusable most of the year as Government coffers fill Brisbane’s $7.1 billion Cross River Rail “sinkhole” ahead of its opening in 2025.
‘Innocent until proven guilty’: Katter on alleged war crimes
Katter’s Australian Party MP Bob Katter has condemned the treatment of a former SAS soldier recently accused of war crimes.
Letter to the Editor: Safeguard Mechanism Bill isn’t ‘saving’ anything
There are a number of flaws with the Federal Government’s Safeguard Mechanism Bill which supposedly promises to reduce emissions, with “no financial impact.”
KAP biofuel bill edges closer
Katter’s Australian Party’s Liquid Fuel Supply (Minimum Biobased Petrol Content) Amendment Bill 2022 has progressed to the final stages of committee review with KAP Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto attending the final public hearing for the bill in Brisbane recently.
Cynical Katter slams treaty “tick and flick”
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has slammed the Palaszczuk Queensland Government for playing shallow “tick and flick” politics with the plight of First Australians, lashing the lack of Indigenous community consultation on Labor’s “landmark” Path to Treaty Bill.
Australia won’t accept religious persecution as Katter calls for Sikh support
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter swapped his Akubra for a turban to stand alongside hundreds of Sikh protestors outside Federal Parliament on Wednesday who were rallying to highlight alleged genocide and human rights breaches by the Indian Government against Sikhs and Australians in the nation’s northern state of Punjab.
Army troops called to clean up flooded gulf
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has used a media conference in Cairns this morning to heighten calls to deploy Australian Defence Force (ADF) troops to the mammoth flood clean-up in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
“Scary”: Calls for $75m in basic upgrades to reduce flood impacts in Gulf
A FEAR of larger and more frequent flooding has motivated leaders from multiple inundated Gulf shires to travel to Federal Parliament and plead with the Government for critical support in preparing for “the next big one.”
Dametto gets the ball rolling on Ingham TAFE campus
KATTER’S Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and State Member for Hinchinbrook, Nick Dametto is optimistic that drastic improvements necessary to breathe new life into the Ingham TAFE campus is another step closer following recent meetings between TAFE, Departmental staff and the Minister for Employment, Small Business and Training, the Hon. Di Farmer.
Bob and Robbie Drag Ministers to See Gulf Floods
THE long process of rebuilding community infrastructure, businesses and livelihoods will soon be underway at Burketown in the Gulf – one of the hardest hit parts of the region during the recent flooding.
KAP makes moves to combat youth crime
The Palaszczuk Government failed Queenslanders and all victims of youth crime today when they declined to allow amendments to be introduced into Parliament that would have created meaningful change and curbed the youth crime epidemic.
KAP backs Petford Revival
THE KATTER’S Australian Party Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, has hailed a proposed plan by a charity to build on Geoff Guest’s Petford Youth Training Camp (YTC) concept as a perfect complement to the party’s Re-location Sentencing policy, and is urging the Queensland Government to consider it as a part of the solution to the growing youth crime problem in Queensland.
Weapons licence applications denied legal representation
Member for Hill Shane Knuth, in a question to the Minister for Police today, called on the Minister to instruct Weapons Licencing to drop its objections to QCAT, to allow applicants legal representation at hearings regarding Weapons Licence application refusals.
Calls to appoint Governor-General to coordinate Gulf flood recovery
KATTER’S Australian Party is calling for an authority to be established in North West Queensland to coordinate the Gulf flood recovery as the region prepares to take disaster relief funding “into its own hands.”
Heartbreak for Katter as first ‘voice’ test fails
The first test of a “voice” to Parliament failed last night thanks to the major parties and the Greens, Katter’s
Bureaucratic stone-walling sending gun shops to the wall
Queensland’s licensed gun dealers, at the centre of the State’s firearm registration system, are threatening to walk away from the industry due to inexplicable approval processing delays that are driving their businesses into the ground, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs have warned.
Knuth welcomes increase in indigenous land and sea ranger numbers
An increase in funding from the State Government towards employment of more Indigenous Land and Sea Rangers, has been welcomed by Member for Hill Shane Knuth.
Katter calls out inadequate hardship payments for flood affected
The hardship payments of $180 for individuals and $900 for families currently being offered by the state government to those affected by the flooding in North West Queensland have been labelled as a nice gesture, but pointless.
Flooded remote, isolated communities’ desperate plea for assistance
MPs Bob and Robbie Katter visited Far North-West Queensland’s remote Gulf communities which have been isolated for months following record summer rainfall, and operating on limited basic goods and government support.
Volunteer Opportunity
You will work with other member volunteers and KAP staff providing administrative support to the KAP Head Office. Your role
Australia Post banking expansion in ‘national interest’: Katter
Australia Post’s future lie in the ability of the public-owned service to diversify and meet the needs of a modern-day nation that is being strangled by grotesque free-marketeers, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
Knuth calls for statewide telestroke service
Member for Hill Shane Knuth has called on the State government to immediately implement a state-wide Telestroke Service.
The National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) is a farcical “woke” $15bn bureaucratic junket: Katter
THE National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) has become a farcical “woke” and “leftist” run $15bn bureaucratic junket, more concerned with inclusivism and appeasing minority groups than genuinely delivering nation-building projects.
Knuth hits out at Reserve Bank of Australia and big businesses
Member for Hill Shane Knuth has today labelled the latest RBA interest rate rise as a kick in the guts for millions of Australians.
MAYOR’S SUPPORT FOR CHANGE A SIGN OF THE CRIME TIMES
Long-serving Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill has thrown her support behind Katter’s Australian Party’s (KAP’s) Relocation Sentencing Policy, publicly advocating for the alternative sentencing model alongside a raft of other changes in a bid to address youth crime.
CopperString will spark Nth Qld’s ‘industrial might’ to life
NORTH Queensland is set to realise its “industrial might” as its mineral and energy-rich towns eagerly await to be connected and contribute to the national energy grid.
KNUTH CALLS FOR MASS CULLS OF FERAL ANIMALS IN QUEENSLAND
State Member for Hill Shane Knuth has hit out at the Queensland Government for “falling asleep on the job” when it comes to eradicating feral animals, despite continual calls to action from the KAP, councils and property owners in North Queensland.
Funding needed to target uni students for bone marrow donations
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter is pushing for the allocation of funding towards the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (ABMDR) and to kickstart a national university college campaign which could potentially save the lives of thousands of Australians living with blood cancer.
Doomagee in everyday essentials crisis: Katter
The closure of Savannah Way due to long-term flooding has left the town of Doomadgee without everyday essentials and skyrocketing prices.
“GROUND ZERO” FAILED AS MPS FIFO ON YOUTH CRIME
The outback town labelled “ground zero” of Queensland’s spiralling youth crime crisis has been ignored and its residents treated like “second class citizens” according to a furious Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter.
Crime in the North
Member for Hill Shane Knuth welcomes the chance for a public hearing to be held in Cairns to discuss the Strengthening Community Safety Bill 2023.
NO ONE WINS WITH LOSS OF THALANGA MINE: KATTER
The closure of the Thalanga Mine outside of Charters Towers late last year has been labelled a “mining industry murder” by Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter, who last week in the Queensland Parliament highlighted the impact the closure will have on the local economy.
Northern suburbs gridlock needs fast-tracked solution
Have your say: Northern Beaches gridlock needs a fast-tracked solution
Stop gambling superannuation balances and build national infrastructure: Katter
SUPERANNUATION should be invested in government-guaranteed endeavours to ensure security of retirement funds for Australians, while also contributing towards nation-building projects, Kennedy MP Bob Katter says.
KATTER CALLS FOR SPORT CENTRE IN MOUNT ISA
The significant amount of money the Olympics is set to cost Queenslanders seems to be at the forefront of everyone’s minds, but none more so than Katter’s Australian Party leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter.
KAP: Have your say on new youth justice reforms before it’s too late
Katter’s Australian Party MPs have accused Labor of trying to “whitewash” the community consultation process relating to the Government’s proposed youth justice laws.
CROCODILE ISSUES CAN NO LONGER BE IGNORED
Member for Hill Shane Knuth has today hit out at the State Government for their lack of urgency towards the growing risk of crocodile attacks and sightings in the Far North, likening it to their apathy on youth crime.
GLIMMER OF HOPE AS D’ATH PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR CHEEK SWAB DONOR RECRUITMENT
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has used Question Time this morning to call on the Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath to take action on the issue of blood cancers and a shortfall in bone marrow transplants.
Australia’s ‘worthless’ free trade agreements killing agriculture
THE Federal Government’s free-trade deals aren’t “worth the paper their written on,” Kennedy MP Bob Katter says as large farming corporations struggle to turn profits and consider selling, amid export bans on their produce.