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QLD FAMILIES DEVASTATED BY TAXI LICENCE LOSSES
Wednesday, 13 Oct, 2021
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs are calling on Transport Minister Mark Bailey to attend a court-ordered mediation and negotiate a fair compensation package for devastated Queensland taxi licence owners. KAP Leader Robbie Katter, speaking from Parliament House said, “Mum-and-Dad Queensland small-business owners have lost everything - there are so many stories of trails of destruction […]
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State Government holds the keys to rural housing crisis fix
Wednesday, 13 Oct, 2021
MEMBER for Hinchinbrook Nick Dametto will request a meeting with Treasurer Cameron Dick to call for an amendment to the First Home Owners’ Grant Policy that would make buying a home in regional Queensland more attractive. Last week community leaders stated Western Queensland is struggling to grow regional centres due to the lack of housing […]
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DR RIDD A BEACON OF HOPE FOR FREE SPEECH: KAP
Wednesday, 13 Oct, 2021
A dark cloud hangs over the future of academic freedom of speech in Australia following the High Court’s ruling today against Great Barrier Reef expert Dr Peter Ridd, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said. The KAP which – alongside a variety of other supporters from across the country - have stood in solidarity with Dr […]
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ATHERTON COMMUNITY CENTRE RECEIVES FUNDING GREEN LIGHT
Wednesday, 13 Oct, 2021
The Atherton Community Centre has, finally, been given the green light with funding for the construction of the new $4.1million building being announced. State Member for Hill Shane Knuth said it had been a long, hard-fought process to get the project up and running and welcomed the final injection of funds from the Federal Government. […]
Read morePOLLIES GET HALL PASS AS LABOR DENIES DEBATE
Tuesday, 12 Oct, 2021
The Palaszczuk Labor Government has denied the Queensland Parliament an opportunity to debate the double standards it is presiding over which give MPs freedom of choice around COVID-19 vaccines while allowing jab mandates to be enforced in other workplaces. To date, the State’s 15,000-strong police workforce and 90,000 Queensland Health employees have been subject to […]
Read moreKatter to join the picket line in protest of Ravenshoe wind farm
Tuesday, 12 Oct, 2021
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, is ready to join hundreds of passionate locals on the picket line to protest the Chalumbin wind farm near Ravenshoe, on the Atherton Tablelands, which will consist of 95 wind turbines forming a ‘bird killing wall’, nearly 30 kilometres wide.[1] Mr Katter says the Chalumbin wind farm will be catastrophic for […]
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