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Floods don’t wait – Katter calls for faster flood warning system upgrades
Tuesday, 23 Sep, 2025
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, has criticised the slow rollout of the National Flood Warning Infrastructure Network (FWIN) program, warning that Charters Towers and other North West communities are being left exposed. Mr Katter said he welcomed the Federal Government’s $236 million investment to improve and integrate rain […]
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“Send ‘em out Bush” – KAP policy grows legs under LNP Government
Friday, 19 Sep, 2025
Hinchinbrook MP and Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader, Nick Dametto, has welcomed the announcement that ‘Bush Sentencing’ will be delivered as Circuit Breaker Sentencing by the Crisafulli Government. Aligning with KAP policy, the State Government is set to create a court-ordered alternative to youth detention and is now seeking interested organisations to deliver this […]
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Voters Neglected as LNP Pushes Boundaries for Political Gain
Thursday, 18 Sep, 2025
Hinchinbrook MP and Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader Nick Dametto has condemned the LNP’s submission to the Queensland Redistribution Commission, describing it as a politically motivated proposal that completely disregards the needs of North Queensland communities, specifically in the Townsville and Hinchinbrook regions. The LNP’s proposal is to alter the boundaries of the Hinchinbrook […]
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Successive governments deserve the cane after 20 years of ethanol ignorance
Wednesday, 17 Sep, 2025
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter has applauded the Albanese’s i$1 billion “Future Made in Australia” biofuels announcement but said that successive former Labor and LNP Governments deserve the “cane” for failing to see the ethanol potential and letting oil companies run rampant around the country. “Prior to 1992, 98 percent of our fuel […]
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16 Billion Reasons to Reform Smelter, Build CopperString: Katter
Tuesday, 16 Sep, 2025
The Mount Isa Copper Smelter remains hanging in the balance, with the Queensland government seeming to tacitly sit on the sidelines, the Member for Traeger and Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party, Robbie Katter has said. “It really worries me that all we are seeing and hearing is the Government in Queensland saying, ‘Glencore should […]
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Dametto Renews Calls for Pepper Spray Trial in Queensland
Friday, 12 Sep, 2025
On the 1st of September, the Northern Territory Government began a twelve-month trial allowing residents to legally purchase and carry oleoresin capsicum spray (commonly known as pepper spray) for self-defence. Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto, is continuing his calls for Queensland to follow suit, advocating to the LNP […]
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