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NQ deserves its fair share: Brisbane 2032 Olympics Petition
Friday, 1 Oct, 2021
MEMBER for Hinchinbrook, Nick Dametto is calling on the Queensland Government to provide a fair and reasonable response now the Brisbane 2032 Olympics petition now concluded. The petition, launched by Founder of Our Fair Share Colin Dwyer and sponsored by Nick Dametto MP, urges the Parliament to create a nation-building fund to offset negative impacts […]
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Australia’s Foreign Minister ‘asleep at the wheel’ as China secures another strategic PNG base
Friday, 1 Oct, 2021
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter says Australia’s Foreign Minister is asleep at the wheel, following a new belt and road deal signed between China and the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Government to create a special economic zone at Kikori in the Gulf of Papua, located between Daru Island and Port Moresby.[1] Political strategist Jeff Wall told […]
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KAP BACKS BOLD BID TO ERADICATE PRICKLY ACACIA
Thursday, 30 Sep, 2021
A game-changing technology that could rid Queensland of Prickly Acacia while producing a carbon-neutral biomass suitable for export to world markets has been launched in Townsville today. The torrefaction-based technology, created by Queensland’s Carbon Renewable Energy, is designed to harvest the State’s abundance of Prickly Acacia weed and turn it into a torrefied product that […]
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PETITIONS WARNS PREMIER TO PURSUE DST AT HER PERIL
Wednesday, 29 Sep, 2021
The battles lines have been drawn with the south-east corner once again firing up the age-old daylight savings debate that rouses fire in the belly of all North Queenslanders. The ongoing argument between southern “haves”, who’d like to have an extra daylight hour in the evenings to host picnics in the sunshine, and the “have […]
Read moreNQ’s Billy Slater seizes control of the Origin team
Monday, 27 Sep, 2021
BOB Katter, Federal Member for Kennedy, says the Queensland State of Origin Team is in good hands under the guidance of Innisfail-raised, Billy Slater. “The north is enormously proud of Billy and it is about time we have one of our North Queensland greats recognised. “In spite of having produced some of the greatest players […]
Read moreQld closed for Christmas? December is D-Day!
Monday, 27 Sep, 2021
COME Christmas, if the inhibitions of our freedoms have not been relinquished there will be hell to pay, KAP Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter, has warned. The emphatic words are in response to the Courier Mail’s front page today which confirms a very real possibility that Queensland [1] will remain shut off from the […]
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