Thursday, 14 Feb, 2019
INSURANCE companies who fail to pay up to customers affected by North Queensland’s devastating floods face a monumental public backlash and will be run out of the region, says Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto. [pdf-embedder url="https://kap.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190214-Dametto-puts-insurers-on-notice-over-flood-recovery.pdf" title="20190214 Dametto puts insurers on notice over flood recovery"]
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A “glimmer of hope” for rural Queensland communities that have been bludgeoned by floods and years of drought could be delivered by the passing of the KAP’s Liquor (Rural Hotels Concession) Amendment Bill 2018, State KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. [pdf-embedder url="https://kap.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190214-RK-media-release-A-‘glimmer-of-hope’-as-gov-backs-bush-pubs.pdf" title="20190214 - RK media release - A ‘glimmer of […]
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KAP Leader and Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter has urged the Prime Minister in Parliament to commit to low-interest reconstructed debt through his Reconstruction Board Legislation to help farmers in North-West Qld who are facing the worst natural disaster to hit the cattle industry. [pdf-embedder url="https://kap.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190212-Katter-urges-Govt-form-a-Reconstruction-Board-as-cattle-farmers-face-worst-natural-disaster.pdf" title="20190212 Katter urges Govt form a Reconstruction Board […]
Read moreWednesday, 13 Feb, 2019
A DRACONIAN regulation which enforces the use of tracking systems on fishing vessels has been upheld by Labor despite efforts by Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto to have it quashed. [pdf-embedder url="https://kap.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190213-Commercial-operators-cut-adrift-by-Labor.pdf" title="20190213 Commercial operators cut adrift by Labor"]
Read moreMonday, 11 Feb, 2019
Last week Townsville saw a one in 100 year rain event which has caused catastrophic flooding leading rivers and creeks to burst their banks, inundating entire suburbs. Over 1000 people were evacuated from their homes with over 2000 homes completely inundated and thousands more damaged by floodwaters. The Australian Defence Force, State Emergency Service, Queensland […]
Read moreMonday, 11 Feb, 2019
HINCHINBROOK MP Nick Dametto has urged the State Government to throw its full weight behind North Queensland’s mammoth flood recovery effort by suspending this sitting week of parliament. [pdf-embedder url="https://kap.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/20190211-Flood-clean-up-needs-full-government-focus.pdf" title="20190211 Flood clean up needs full government focus"]
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