Thursday, 15 Sep, 2022
Bruce Highway commuters are becoming increasingly frustrated as travel time from Townsville to Ingham blows out to two hours due to roadwork delays and road conditions, Deputy Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto has said.
Three days of troubling testimony into the issues of chronic unemployment, criminal recidivism and unbearable socio-economic disadvantage being experienced within Indigenous communities were not enough to rouse the interest of Labor’s Cairns and Townsville MPs last week.
Wednesday, 14 Sep, 2022
AN INFAMOUS road with a dangerous reputation, multiple switchbacks and an average 44 closures per year cannot be made safe without “knocking down half the bloody jungle,” Kennedy MP Bob Katter says.
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has slammed the Palaszczuk Labor Government for refusing to take any responsibility over the industry-destroying intervention it has taken in relation to the State’s mismanaged Spanish mackerel fishery.
With the Queensland Premier announcing she will chair a ‘landmark’ summit to address the state’s housing crisis, Deputy Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto has set his sights on the Palaszczuk Government’s adoption of the National Construction Code, saying the Government must suspend changes due to come into play in October next year if they wanted to address long term housing affordability.
Tuesday, 13 Sep, 2022
THE NORTHERN sugar season is turning sour as trucks lay in idle at the Mossman Sugar mill, reeling from a mass driver shortage, Kennedy MP, Bob Katter says.