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Mandate puts regional shows at risk
Friday, 18 Mar, 2022
Regional shows are in jeopardy of ending permanently if the Queensland vaccination mandates aren’t ended immediately. Innisfail Show manager Mad DeBrincat said she it will be difficult to deliver regional shows if they couldn’t get volunteers and if they were forced to "police" entrances. “Last year we had to abide by Check in rules and […]
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Fed funding adds insult to Ag Show injury
Friday, 18 Mar, 2022
Queensland country shows struggling to survive have been dealt another blow as the Federal Government hands millions to Brisbane’s Ekka and offers only a pittance to ag shows across Australia. The Royal Queensland Show (Ekka) will receive $6.5 million to help meet costs from last year’s cancelled show, under Round 2 of the Federal Supporting […]
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EV investment to trigger wave of wealth for North West
Friday, 18 Mar, 2022
While Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter continues to advocate for the State’s under-developed biofuels sector in the face of the recent major electric vehicle (EV) investment, he says the on-trend EV movement could deliver untold prosperity to the North West. The Queensland Government has claimed its new $45 million subsidy […]
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Time for mandatory masks to fly away, says Katter
Thursday, 17 Mar, 2022
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter says it’s time to wind back the remaining, draconian Covid-19 measures including the mandatory wearing of masks at airports and on planes. Mr Katter said State Governments had rolled back the requirement to wear masks in nearly all settings and it was time the Prime Minister rolled back mask wearing at […]
Read morePopulation growth the way to reverse services decline in western Qld
Wednesday, 16 Mar, 2022
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, says the only way to reverse the decline of services in western Qld (including banks, insurance, doctors, and telecommunications) is to increase population through irrigation projects and ensuring miners live in the towns where they work. Mr Katter said he has been in discussions with major mining operators in the North […]
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KAP, PHON and Callide MP stand in support of farmers
Wednesday, 16 Mar, 2022
Queensland’s major party MPs have shown their loyalties no longer lie with farmers, with Labor and the LNP now favouring a green ideology and foreign powers that seek to exploit the narrative surrounding our Great Barrier Reef. Debate resumed last night on Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto’s Environmental and Other […]
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