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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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Small change needed to upgrade urban STPs
Wednesday, 2 Feb, 2022
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter MP has called on all levels of government to quit playing platitudinal politics with the Great Barrier Reef and instead put their money where the real problem lies – the leeching of urban and human waste into waterways. Mr Katter said there were 96 sewerage treatment […]
Read more“Culture of fear” destroying governance: KAP
Tuesday, 1 Feb, 2022
All Queenslanders would benefit from having the shroud of secrecy that has enveloped the Queensland Government for far too long lifted through a wide-ranging integrity inquiry, Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter, who has been the Member for Mount Isa/Traeger since 2012, said a “culture of fear” and compliance was permeating […]
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Vets on the brink as Government ignores pleas
Monday, 31 Jan, 2022
Queensland’s veterinary services sector is teetering on the brink of collapse as the Queensland Government refuses to heed industry-led calls for a COVID-19 restrictions reprieve, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Two weeks ago the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) issued a nation-wide appeal to all State Governments, warning that the […]
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Govt flexes Covid power and calls ‘last drinks’ on Mission Beach pub
Monday, 31 Jan, 2022
A MISSION Beach pub has been forced to close its doors at the request of police on the weekend for “failing to comply” with health orders which prohibit serving unvaccinated patrons; a no-no in the Queensland Government’s Covid-19 rulebook. Bob Katter, Federal Member for Kennedy, said the local pub was an essential service and should […]
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Feds throw money at the reef without fixing obvious problems
Friday, 28 Jan, 2022
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, said the Federal Government needed to address immediate and real problems facing the Great Barrier Reef such as feral pigs causing erosion in river systems or raw sewage seeping out at Cardwell (a town south of Cairns), rather than simply making billion-dollar announcements to win votes months out from a federal […]
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