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STATEMENT FROM ROBBIE KATTER MP
Thursday, 7 Oct, 2021
I am dismayed by Glencore’s decision this week to move to a week-on, week-off roster at Mount Isa Mines. This is in addition to this roster being implemented at Glencore Zinc operations some years ago. There is no doubt that mine employees, who have since Mount Isa’s inception, been integral to the growth and stability […]
Read moreGrants could solve North Qld’s pig of a problem
Thursday, 7 Oct, 2021
BOB Katter, Member for Kennedy, has joined KAP State Member for Hill, Shane Knuth, and cane growers from Innisfail in a call for grants to be made available to farmers who are desperate to control millions of feral pigs that continue to destroy their crops. Silkwood cane grower, Levis Campagnolo said the pigs were having […]
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Dolly Hankin
Wednesday, 6 Oct, 2021
I was born and raised on Thursday Island. I think I must have been only a young baby on the outer island of Mabuiag in the Torres Strait. I remember doing prep school on that island. And then after that from year 1 to year 9 was on Thursday Island. It was fun. I used […]
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STATEMENT FROM NICK DAMETTO MP
Wednesday, 6 Oct, 2021
North Queensland is approaching the status of a failed state, and Townsville is front and centre of this crisis. Our city is excelling in so many aspects but youth crime continues to erode at our way of life while the Palaszczuk Labor Government writes these kids a hall pass. With up to six cars stolen […]
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TRADING LAWS STATUS QUO MUST BE RETAINED: KATTER
Wednesday, 6 Oct, 2021
The nation-wide shortage in butcher trainees should serve as a massive red light to any plans by the Palaszczuk Labor Government to further de-regulate the state’s trading hours laws, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter said the viability of independently-owned butcher shops, like many small retailers in Queensland, […]
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GRADER GRASS IS HURTING OUR FARMERS: KATTER
Wednesday, 6 Oct, 2021
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, is calling on the Queensland Government to crackdown on the spread of Grader Grass by Defence and Queensland Rail. Robbie Katter, said, “Grader Grass is a real concern, it chokes out all of the valuable grass and can render a property useless” Grader grass is […]
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