Monday, 23 Aug, 2021
Outback Queensland communities including Mount Isa, Biloela and Longreach would be an ideal home for some of the thousands of Afghan refugees seeking to escape the Taliban’s return to power, Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter said rural Queensland had been for years experiencing the negative impacts of population decline, an […]
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[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.25" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.25" custom_padding="|||" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_post_title author="off" categories="off" comments="off" featured_image="off" _builder_version="3.0.105" title_text_align="center" title_text_color="#273775" title_font_size="35px" text_orientation="center" title_text_shadow_style="preset2"][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" _builder_version="4.6.5" text_font="Arial||||||||" hover_enabled="0" sticky_enabled="0"] KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter has told the Developing Northern Australia Conference that two new States need to be created in the northern half of Australia if the country is […]
Read moreSaturday, 21 Aug, 2021
KATTER’S AUSTRALIAN PARTY (KAP) MPs, Bob Katter and Shane Knuth are calling on the Queensland Transport Minister to fast-track the completion of a study into a new highway between Cairns and the Atherton Tablelands/Mareeba, so the Federal Government can be involved in the project. In May, Transport Minister Mark Bailey confirmed a $1.6 million Queensland […]
Read moreFriday, 20 Aug, 2021
MEMBER for Hinchinbrook Nick Dametto MP has praised the Herbert farming community on their efforts as harvesting crews’ power through the 2021 season. The sugarcane industry remains the number one industry in Hinchinbrook. For every $1 of economic activity in sugarcane growing, an additional $6.40 in economic activity is generated elsewhere in the economy.1 Since the start of the 2021 crush to the week ending […]
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MEMBER for Hinchinbrook, Nick Dametto MP is furious as the Townsville Bulletin has today confirmed that in the coming weeks, two new civilian prosecutors will commence in Brisbane to take on the ‘worst’ juvenile offenders.1 Nick Dametto MP said North Queensland, particularly across the three centres of Townsville, Cairns and Mount Isa had been battling relentless youth crime rates for […]
Read moreThursday, 19 Aug, 2021
Cleveland Youth Detention Centre may be full but the Queensland outback is open and ready to accept and sort out repeat offenders as part of Katter’s Australian Party’s (KAP) innovative Relocation Sentencing Policy. Spurred on by news today that North Queensland’s only dedicated youth detention facility is bursting at its seams[1], KAP Leader and Traeger […]
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