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14 days’ notice to shut up shop: Fisheries closures sign of things to come?
Friday, 3 May, 2024
Fisheries minister Mark Furner’s capitulation to his Brisbane masters and their desperate scramble for green votes is an utter slap in the face to the Gulf Fishers who have had their livelihoods obliterated with 14 days’ notice, Katter’s Australian Party Leader, and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said. Without any scientific backing, the Fisheries […]
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Premier’s $1000 electricity handout ‘an insult to Qld people’: Katter
Friday, 3 May, 2024
FORMER Queensland Energy Minister Bob Katter has labelled the State Premier’s $1000 electricity “vote-buying” handout an “insult to the intelligence of the Queensland people.” Mr Katter said the $1000 per household initiative, set to cost $2.5bn, and being labelled as cost-of-living relief was not fooling anyone as a blatant vote-buying exercise which ignored the root […]
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Westpac Ingham and Tully branches saved until 2027
Thursday, 2 May, 2024
Hinchinbrook MP and Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader, Nick Dametto, praised Westpac's decision to extend its moratorium on branch closures until at least 2027. The announcement, made on Tuesday, 30 April, comes as a relief to many communities, including Ingham and Tully which were previously earmarked for branch closures. Last year, Westpac's plans to […]
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Katter’s long-term Mossman Mill fix backed by local growers
Thursday, 2 May, 2024
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter has laid out his proposal to save, and increase viability of the Mossman Sugar Mill, currently in administration. Mr Katter said it had been reported to him, following years of insecurity within the mill, the quality of cane being supplied to the crusher was dwindling, and additional supply to […]
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Multinationals must not sit on Queensland’s resources: Katter
Thursday, 2 May, 2024
The Queensland Government cannot be beholden to the whim of international corporations and their ‘profit-at-all-cost agenda’! Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said. “How is it that a multinational commodity trading company can have a unique, legislated agreement with the people of Queensland to mine at Mount Isa, then not […]
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Bridges, food, houses more important than treaty: Katter
Thursday, 2 May, 2024
I don’t care what the Brisbane do-gooders think – I’ll take bridges, access to fairly priced groceries, and up to scratch house any day of the week over any so-called ‘treaty’, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said. “A treaty is simply a word-smithed smokescreen for the Brisbane parties […]
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