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Shane Knuth appalled with State Government cutting teachers pay checks
Wednesday, 24 Aug, 2022
Member for Hill Shane Knuth said the Founding Fathers of the Labor movement would be turning in their graves over how far the party had fallen from its traditional values. This was in response to the revelations of a letter, leaked to media, of correspondence from the Education Department to severely penalise and docks […]
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Premier must step in over pay docking disgrace
Tuesday, 23 Aug, 2022
Katter’s Australian Party MPs have called for the Premier and Queensland Education Minister to immediately intervene in the “demoralizing and farcical” disciplinary action being taken by its education department that would see the pay of teachers who chose not to be vaccinated against COVID-19 docked over 18 weeks. The hundreds of State-employed teachers, who were […]
Read moreDametto calls for matched funding to resolve Herbert River erosion impacts
Tuesday, 23 Aug, 2022
State Member for Hinchinbrook and Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader, Nick Dametto is calling for $1.2 million matched funding to assist Hinchinbrook’s landowners to address the erosion impacts along the Herbert River. Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon has announced the State Labor Government will fund $1.2 million for a range of on-ground remediation work and […]
Read moreDoomadgee community garden hero a muse for feds on market gardens
Tuesday, 23 Aug, 2022
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, has applauded the assiduous green thumb of Doomadgee resident, John McCracken, for establishing his own i community garden, and is calling on the Federal Government to look to Mr McCracken for guidance on how to get the market gardens restored across the remaining communities. Mr Katter said that it was extraordinary […]
Read morePet welfare undermined by mooted collar ban
Monday, 22 Aug, 2022
The pronged dog collar ban that is the “jewel in the crown” of the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s animal welfare reforms is likely the most useless legislation to come before the Queensland Parliament this term, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter, speaking in response to Minister for Agriculture and […]
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SORGHUM BLOOMS IN CATTLE COUNTRY AMID FMD RISK
Monday, 22 Aug, 2022
Seventy-five years after the Queensland Government declared it would grow sorghum on a remote Burketown property, a Gulf leader took it upon his own shoulders and has harvested the first crop, creating jobs and critical diversification amid grim biosecurity threats to Australia’s beef industry. Member for Traeger and Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter […]
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