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Community Leaders Meet to Push for Gulf Academy
Monday, 7 Feb, 2022
Community leaders from across the Lower Gulf of Carpentaria are travelling to Brisbane to meet with Commonwealth and Queensland Government officials on Wednesday to progress their proposal to establish a Gulf Academy in the Region. Welcoming the initiative, the Member for Traeger, Mr Robbie Katter MP, said “For decades the communities of the Lower Gulf […]
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Fall Armyworm threatens future of North QLD ag industries
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. […]
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Katter issues ultimatum to Qld Transport Minister on Cairns to Mareeba highway
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 […]
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KAP warns Government on sugar (tax) addiction
Friday, 4 Feb, 2022
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 […]
Read more KAP calls for investigation into culture at Cleveland
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 […]
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Another day, another rollover on the Kuranda Range
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 […]
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