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Christmas Message from Nick Dametto MP
Thursday, 19 Dec, 2024
Hinchinbrook, with Christmas just around the corner I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the good things that we all have in our lives. I believe Christmas is a time to come together and celebrate the blessings of family, friendship and neighbours. It’s the season for us all to share in the joy, […]
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Lazy miner, global commodity trader, holding Queensland to ransom
Friday, 13 Dec, 2024
There is no greater issue facing Mount Isa and the North West than the planned closure of Glencore’s Mount Isa copper mine, Katter’s Australian Part (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter said. The planned closure will have a monumental impact on Mount Isa, facing the loss of 1,200 jobs. “1,200 jobs lost is […]
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Knuth Calls On New Environment Minister to Act and End “Shoot to Kill” Cattle Operations in Cape York
Thursday, 12 Dec, 2024
Shane Knuth, Member for Hill, has called on the new Minister for the Environment to immediately end all "shoot to kill" cattle operations for good in Cape York, following what he believes is a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court of Queensland. The court's decision, handed down on 29 November 2024, sided with Olive Vale […]
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New government dismisses chance to reverse Labor’s industry decimation
Wednesday, 11 Dec, 2024
Queensland’s commercial fishing industry had a chance to be saved from ideologically driven decimation on Tuesday, with the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) disallowance motion to reverse Labor’s gillnet bans in the Gulf of Carpentaria being debated in Parliament. “The Crisafulli government had a chance to put its talk into action,” KAP Leader and Member for […]
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Dametto Critical of Government Decision to Cut Key Rural Health Worker Incentives
Wednesday, 11 Dec, 2024
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has questioned the LNP Government's decision to axe the Workforce Attraction Incentive Scheme (WAIS), calling it a shortsighted and untimely move that could exacerbate the healthcare crisis in rural and regional Queensland. The scheme, implemented by the former Labor government, offered up to $70,000 […]
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LNP herald death of democracy, becomes thought police: Katter
Tuesday, 10 Dec, 2024
The Left are no longer the sole owner of totalitarian leftism! The KAP Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said, in response to the unprecedented moves by the LNP government to gag debate by blocking introduction of bills into parliament. Speaker, Pat Wier has been tasked with ruling out of order any Bill, […]
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