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KAP wants government to come clean on insurance savings
Friday, 10 Dec, 2021
Katter’s Australian Party candidate, Clynton Hawks, says the draft legislation of the federal government’s $10B reinsurance scheme falls short in providing northern Queensland residents any clue as to how it will really work to reduce premiums for residents. KAP hopeful Hawks is gunning for the electorate of Herbert, which comprises most of Townsville, at the […]
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Katter’s Australian Party Gives Big 4 the Flick in Switch to QLD Country Bank
Friday, 10 Dec, 2021
[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" hover_enabled="0" sticky_enabled="0"][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" title_text_shadow_style="preset2"][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.6.5" text_font="Arial||||||||" hover_enabled="0" sticky_enabled="0"]Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) is no longer doing business with banking’s “Big Four,” following the move to bank with the membership-owned and locally-run Queensland Country Bank. KAP leader and […]
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Snappy launch for Charley’s Chocolate new packaging and ‘Crocodile Mountain’ chocolate
Wednesday, 8 Dec, 2021
Mission Beach success story, Charley’s Chocolate, has launched a new range of premium packaging featuring local artwork and a new chocolate line ‘Crocodile Mountain’. Chris Jahnke, Executive Director and founder of the multi-award winning chocolate business, was joined by special guests, a baby saltwater crocodile and Shane Knuth State Member for Hill, to celebrate the […]
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North Queensland prepped for wet season as BOM radar comes online
Wednesday, 8 Dec, 2021
THE new Greenvale weather radar is now live on the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) website and KAP Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter, said the radar will provide valuable weather advice to people in the Burdekin sub-basin as well as parts of the Flinders, Gilbert, Mitchell, and Herbert River catchments. The Greenvale radar is one […]
Read moreAussie industries crippled as Govt sells off advantage
Wednesday, 8 Dec, 2021
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said Australia’s economies and industries would continue to suffer if the nation remained beholden to the international market for key commodities like urea. He said was deeply alarmed that, despite global demand for urea skyrocketing, Queensland’s only manufacturer of the product had announced it would close […]
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Bank Branch closures a symptom of market failure
Tuesday, 7 Dec, 2021
Postcode discrimination, bank branch closures and an ever-reducing appetite to lend to the bush are symptoms of market failure in the regional banking sector, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Speaking following the news that Charleville and Longreach, in Queensland’s south and mid-west, would lose their local Suncorp Bank branches […]
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