Wednesday, 7 Jul, 2021
The hospitality sector in regional Queensland is being forced to cut back on trading hours and in some cases cease trading by a dire shortage of chefs and hospitality workers. Member for Hinchinbrook, Nick Dametto has written to the Federal Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs and the Queensland Treasurer raising his concerns and suggesting an incentive scheme and a safe expedited pathway for overseas workers. […]
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KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, has thrown his support behind Hunter MP, Joel Fitzgibbon, who is calling on the Federal Government to intervene in the domestic gas market with prices surging as high as $27 a gigajoule, which is as much as $10 a gigajoule above export prices. “The price of gas is critical for Australia […]
Read moreTuesday, 6 Jul, 2021
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter, says that the cancelling of Julia Creek’s Dirt n Dust festival is the most recent example of both the Federal and State Government’s “dereliction of duty and responsibility” to support small towns across Australia. “Across the region show numbers have been down, in some cases numbers have been down as low […]
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The Palaszczuk Labor Government and its bureaucracy’s obsession with punishing law-abiding firearm owners like sports shooters and farmers is allowing gang-related gun crime to fester in south-east Queensland, Katter’s Australian Party Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has warned. Citing recently-published Queensland Police Service data that shows gang-related activity associated with concealable firearms has risen significantly alongside […]
Read moreMonday, 5 Jul, 2021
A New Zealand-style national insurer, loans to operators to develop their own mutual funds and an immediate halving of Queensland’s minimum insurance amounts have been floated by Katter’s Australian Party as solutions to the nation’s public liability insurance crisis. KAP Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter said the public liability insurance sector in Australia […]
Read moreFriday, 2 Jul, 2021
I'm writing to express my concern over the urgent issue of electricity supply in the North-West Minerals Province (NWMP). As you know all too well, we have some of the highest electricity prices in the world and its extremely complicated to get electricity for new projects. In my opinion this is the direct result of […]
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