Wednesday, 16 Jun, 2021
Smoke and mirrors have been used to hide the lack of critical services funding and visionary nation-building infrastructure in the 2021-22 Queensland Budget, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter said the Government had spent significantly on education ($18.3 billion), social housing ($1.9 billion) and cost of living concessions […]
Read moreTuesday, 15 Jun, 2021
The 2021-22 Queensland Budget is a piece of PR that with will keep the lights on and the public servants paid but will do nothing to advance the future of the state, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter said the Palaszczuk Labor Government had also failed to address […]
Read moreMonday, 14 Jun, 2021
Katter’s Australian Party MPs are calling on the Palaszczuk Labor Government to relax onerous rules around shark harvesting in a bid to save fledgling fisheries, including the prized Spanish Mackerel. KAP Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto urged Queenslanders to “save a Mackerel, eat a shark” as was the usual practice of years gone by when flake […]
Read moreMonday, 14 Jun, 2021
Mornington Island Mayor, Kyle Yanner, said he was given a great boost of confidence when he heard Acting Prime Minister, Michael McCormack, say ‘things must change ‘whilst on the Island during a visit yesterday with Indigenous Affairs Minister, Ken Wyatt. Mornington Island has extreme rates of diabetes and malnutrition, which results in residents having a […]
Read moreSunday, 13 Jun, 2021
Fish and chip shops across the North are grappling with the shock news that Queensland’s much-loved Spanish Mackerel fishery industry is on the brink of collapse. Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said one way or another, the Spanish Mackerel industry was in jeopardy due to systemic regulatory and management failures […]
Read moreFriday, 11 Jun, 2021
Member for Hill Shane Knuth has written to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, expressing deep concerns over the management of the Spanish Mackerel Fishery along the East Coast by Fisheries Queensland. Mr Knuth's office has been contacted by commercial and recreational fishers concerned at a possible closure of the Spanish Mackerel fishery in 2022. […]
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