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New government dismisses chance to reverse Labor’s industry decimation
Wednesday, 11 Dec, 2024
Queensland’s commercial fishing industry had a chance to be saved from ideologically driven decimation on Tuesday, with the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) disallowance motion to reverse Labor’s gillnet bans in the Gulf of Carpentaria being debated in Parliament. “The Crisafulli government had a chance to put its talk into action,” KAP Leader and Member for […]
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Dametto Critical of Government Decision to Cut Key Rural Health Worker Incentives
Wednesday, 11 Dec, 2024
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has questioned the LNP Government's decision to axe the Workforce Attraction Incentive Scheme (WAIS), calling it a shortsighted and untimely move that could exacerbate the healthcare crisis in rural and regional Queensland. The scheme, implemented by the former Labor government, offered up to $70,000 […]
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LNP herald death of democracy, becomes thought police: Katter
Tuesday, 10 Dec, 2024
The Left are no longer the sole owner of totalitarian leftism! The KAP Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said, in response to the unprecedented moves by the LNP government to gag debate by blocking introduction of bills into parliament. Speaker, Pat Wier has been tasked with ruling out of order any Bill, […]
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The Gulf left fighting for survival, Brisbane gets billions
Friday, 6 Dec, 2024
The Crisafulli government is at risk of failing gulf communities if sustainable funding for a haemodialysis (renal care) service in Normanton is not urgently forthcoming, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said. The long-awaited Normanton Hospital is set to open in 2025, but without ongoing funding for renal services, […]
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Katter calls for urgent shake-up to salvage CopperString from Powerlink bungle
Friday, 29 Nov, 2024
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, has issued an urgent call for changes to ensure the success of the CopperString 2.0 project. Mr Katter has laid the blame for the multi-billion-dollar cost blowouts of the project squarely on Powerlink, criticising its management of lacking the expertise and determination to deliver […]
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Katter demands urgent road upgrades in FNQ amidst ongoing fatalities
Friday, 29 Nov, 2024
KENNEDY MP Bob Katter has called for immediate government action following a series of tragic road deaths in Far North Queensland (FNQ), most recently being a tragic fatal crash in [i]Edmonton. “The whole of FNQ are beginning to rise up in rage,” Mr Katter warned. “We are seeing fatal accidents every three-to-four weeks now and the […]
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