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Budget’s neglect of Cairns’ water security damning: KAP
Friday, 8 Apr, 2022
KATTER’S Australian Party (KAP) candidate for Leichhardt, Rod Jensen, says the omission of Cairns Regional Council’s proposal from the federal budget’s water security announcements last week was a rude awakening which residents of the fast-growing region ignore at their peril. “We didn’t even get an honourable mention. “Water security is a hot topic, but […]
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Federal Budget 2022-23 relief for first home buyers
Friday, 8 Apr, 2022
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto is calling on the Queensland Treasurer and Minister for Investment, the Honourable Cameron Dick to follow the Federal Government’s footsteps and include relief for first home buyers in the State Budget 2022-23. Under the expanded Home Guarantee Scheme, 35,000 places will go to first-home […]
Read moreQueensland Government Must Explain Management of Spanish Mackerel Fishery
Thursday, 7 Apr, 2022
Member for Hill Shane Knuth has questioned the Queensland Government and Department of Fisheries on their management of the Spanish Mackerel fishery. Mr Knuth said this issue had been boiling since the initial meeting of DAF and the Spanish Mackerel Working Group in May, last year. "The working group was provided a presentation on the […]
Read moreDoctors given Uni incentive must go bush immediately
Thursday, 7 Apr, 2022
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, says medical students in the bonded medical place scheme, where taxpayers foot $100,000 for their degrees if they pledge to work in the bush after they graduate, should be required to complete their rural service in the immediate three years after they graduate. Currently doctors in the scheme have 18 […]
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Govt has transport operators running on fumes
Wednesday, 6 Apr, 2022
BOB Katter, Kennedy MP, has penned a letter to the Treasurer on behalf of the transport industry in his electorate who say Government has made a terrible error in judgement by reducing the fuel excise, and cutting the fuel tax credit simultaneously. By removing the fuel tax credit for on-road users, and with the continuing […]
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KAP lashes government’s hypocrisy on cost of living
Wednesday, 6 Apr, 2022
Katter’s Australian Party candidate for Leichhardt, Rod Jensen, says the failure to act on drastically higher fuel prices in the Cape region illustrates the double-standard governments have toward addressing the cost of living in remote regions of the country. “When fuel prices across the country got over $2 a litre, the federal government moved to […]
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