Monday, 7 Feb, 2022
FOR more than two years the Fall Armyworm has been decimating maize crops on the Atherton Tablelands, and now farmers are considering moving into other crops. A shortage of maize production will have a major impact on the dairy, beef, chicken and pork industries as maize and corn silage is a feed-source for these animals. […]
Friday, 4 Feb, 2022
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, has issued an ultimatum to the Queensland Transport Minister; ‘request Federal Government support for a new road from Cairns to Mareeba, or resign as Minister’. In today’s Cairns Post (04/02/2022), Minister Bailey said, “If Bob Katter was truly serious about solutions, he should do his job in Canberra and actually secure […]
A campaign launched by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) agitating for the Australian government to put a tax on sugar has been met with heavy criticism by Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Member for Hinchinbrook Nick Dametto MP. The AMA’s social media campaign is the latest push by the doctor’s lobby group to sway […]
Thursday, 3 Feb, 2022
Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto MP has today requested that the Queensland Parliament’s Legal Affairs and Safety Committee conduct an investigation into explosive allegations of misconduct, bullying and violence at the Cleveland Youth Detention Centre (CYDC) in Townsville. An increasing number of ‘whistle blowers’, mostly current or previous employees at […]
Wednesday, 2 Feb, 2022
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, has warned the State Government to back a second highway to Mareeba and free the tens of thousands of people stranded in the greater Atherton Tablelands after yet another truck rollover on the Kuranda Range Road today caused another extended road closure. Mr Katter said that figures supplied to his office […]
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter MP has called on all levels of government to quit playing platitudinal politics with the Great Barrier Reef and instead put their money where the real problem lies – the leeching of urban and human waste into waterways. Mr Katter said there were 96 sewerage treatment […]