Monday, 21 Jun, 2021
LEGISLATION which would force the federal government to stop using foreign owned data centres to store sensitive military files has been introduced to Parliament by Kennedy MP, Bob Katter, and Clark MP , Andrew Wilkie. In February, the ABC revealed the Defence Department had quietly extended a contract to house electronic data in a Chinese […]
Read moreFriday, 18 Jun, 2021
Nick Dametto, Member for Hinchinbrook is disgusted that despite being Men’s Health Week, there was not one mention by the Government or the Opposition in the Parliament on the passing of Kerry Rooney, who was allegedly stabbed by an ex-partner in front of his son on Wednesday night; nor any significant funding in the budget to assist men’s health or social […]
Read moreThursday, 17 Jun, 2021
Townsville-based Resources Minister Scott Stewart must come clean on Government forecasts for minerals production out of the state’s most important resources region, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter, who challenged Mr Stewart on the subject in Parliament this week, said the Minister’s non-response to his question had […]
Read moreThursday, 17 Jun, 2021
Member for Hinchinbrook, Nick Dametto MP, has used Question time today to slam the Agricultural Minister over the ALP Government’s empowerment of RSPCA offices to extort and shut down competition for financial gain. Mr Dametto asked the Minister, “Will the Minister inform the House as to what oversight the department has over the RSPCA and […]
Read moreThursday, 17 Jun, 2021
The first of two public hearings have been held into Nick Dametto, Member for Hinchinbrook’s, Environmental and Other Legislation (Reversal of Great Barrier Reef Protection Measures) Amendment Bill 2021. The Bill sets out to repeal the ALP Government’s 2019 legislation which demonises farmers and regulates the agricultural industry into oblivion. “This is unfair legislation we are trying to reverse. The […]
Read moreWednesday, 16 Jun, 2021
Tricky accounting and capital spending centred on the south-east corner defines the 2021-22 Queensland Budget but there are still some sugar hits for the Hinchinbrook electorate, local MP Nick Dametto has said. Mr Dametto said the Queensland Treasurer had delivered a textbook Labor Budget that ticked all the social boxes, but lacked grunt and vision. […]
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