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Letter to the Editor from Nick Dametto MP
Monday, 7 Mar, 2022
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.25" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.25" custom_padding="|||" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_post_title author="off" categories="off" comments="off" featured_image="off" _builder_version="3.0.105" title_text_align="center" title_text_color="#273775" title_font_size="35px" text_orientation="center" hover_enabled="0" title_text_shadow_style="preset2" sticky_enabled="0"][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.6.5" text_font="Arial||||||||" hover_enabled="0" sticky_enabled="0"]The first sitting week of the State Parliament for 2022 has set off alarm bells for Queensland’s farmers. Katter’s Australian Party’s bill to reverse the draconian and misguided reef […]
Read moreAustralia’s fuel reserves dwindle to historic lows under LNP: KAP
Monday, 7 Mar, 2022
Australia’s emergency fuel reserves are at an all-time low compared to other countries, leaving the nation’s transport and logistics network vulnerable to grinding to a halt, says Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) candidate for Herbert, Clynton Hawks. As of November 2021, Australia’s emergency fuel reserves were the lowest in the developed world, at just 68 days, […]
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People’s bank’ answer to branch closures: KAP
Monday, 7 Mar, 2022
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, said a government-owned People’s Bank was needed to address the declining availability of financial services in regional areas across the nation. Figures from the banking watch dog, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, show a 22 per cent decline in the number of banking institutions […]
Read more‘Don’t hang up on the regions’, Katter’s plea for more telecommunications funding in the Federal Budget
Friday, 4 Mar, 2022
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, has written to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg requesting that the Federal Budget contain a significantly increased allocation for rural and regional telecommunications services and infrastructure. The Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MP said it was probably the biggest issue facing regional and remote Australia and must be funded seriously by the Federal Government. […]
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APA Group fights to protect fossil-fuelled monopoly
Thursday, 3 Mar, 2022
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said the main – and perhaps only – genuine critic of the nation-building CopperString 2.0 project was the corporation that currently has an fossil-fuelled energy monopoly in North West Queensland. Mr Katter, whose state electorate of Traeger would encompass the entire project, said APA Group currently […]
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Bob Katter, Letter to the Editor – CopperString
Thursday, 3 Mar, 2022
Dear Editor, I refer to The Australian article on March 2,[1] concerning what amounted to innuendo, saying that my unique position in Canberra enabled my relatives the O’Brien family to benefit. The extraordinary inaccuracies with which your journalist wrote needs to be exposed. Firstly, Mount Isa is a giant, $4b per annum, industrial complex which […]
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