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Statement from Robbie Katter MP
Wednesday, 23 Mar, 2022
Katter’s Australian Party is welcoming of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of $5.4 billion in funding for Hells Gates Dam. We appreciate the fact that, today, the Federal Government have committed money towards what can only be described as the kind of nation-building infrastructure the KAP – and we believe the Australian people – dream […]
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PM’s Hells Gates plan won’t facilitate the Bradfield Scheme dream
Wednesday, 23 Mar, 2022
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, is opposed to the proposal of a low-level dam at the Hells Gates site (less than 395m above sea level), with irrigation on unreliable basalt rock country beside the upper Burdekin River, for which the Prime Minister has announced $5.4B in funding.[1] Mr Katter said the proposal drawn up by Townsville […]
Read moreQLD Upper House abolition anniversary a chance for reform
Tuesday, 22 Mar, 2022
Tomorrow marks 100 years since the formal abolition of the Legislative Council, the former Upper House, which left Queensland with the only unicameral state parliamentary system in the country. Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said, while the last thing people wanted was more politicians, the occasion marked an opportune time to […]
Read moreBiofuels should play role in Australia’s fuel security solution
Tuesday, 22 Mar, 2022
KATTER’S AUSTRALIAN PARTY (KAP) MPs, Bob Katter and Shane Knuth, say the State and Federal Governments have had a golden opportunity over the years to establish a biofuels and bioenergy industry in Queensland through the sugar and grains industries, but haven’t allowed it to properly flourish. The pair recently stopped by at the Tableland Sugar […]
Read moreSend kid crims to the bush, not city streets: KAP
Tuesday, 22 Mar, 2022
The Palaszczuk Labor Government’s culpability for the youth crime crisis wreaking havoc across the State has been laid bare today following reports that ‘at-risk’ children from the bush are being grouped with and criminalised by juvenile offenders in care homes on the coast. The Townsville Bulletin has today reported that due to a chronic lack […]
Read moreRegions left behind as SEQ gorges on govt cash
Monday, 21 Mar, 2022
The South-East Queensland (SEQ) City Deal might improve “liveability” in Brisbane but will do nothing to advance the State’s future economic position or quality of life in oft-neglected regional and rural communities, Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter said in the name of equity the $1.8 billion fund, details of which […]
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