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Stop Surveying Victims and Start Fixing the Revolving Door: Katter
KAP Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has slammed the LNP’s new community crime survey, saying North Queenslanders already gave politicians their answer loud and clear years ago. “The Member for Hinchinbrook went to the recent by-election promising to fight for stronger bail laws and give North Queenslanders a seat at the table,” Mr Katter said. “Well having to raise a petition hardly sounds like having a seat at the table. “People in North Queensland have already spoken. They’ve spoken through election results, community outrage and the 113,000 signatures on KAP’s Castle Law petition. “They don’t want another survey.…
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Victims’ Commissioner or Criminals’ Commissioner – Which is it?
It seems the so-called Victims’ Commissioner needs to scrub up on the definition of victim, because in my book home invaders are not victims, Leader of the KAP and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. Despite the Victims’ Commissioner’s remit to be “advocating for victims’ rights” and providing advice on “improvements to policy, practices, procedures and systems to uphold the rights of victims and better meet their needs,” the Commissioner has failed to support Castle Law. “In what world does a Victims’ Commissioner side with Criminals?” the KAP leader asked. “I mean, I can accept that the legal…
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Katter demands shark culling laws after another North Queensland death
KENNEDY MP Bob Katter has called for urgent changes to Queensland’s shark management laws following the tragic death of a North Queensland spear fisherman in a fatal shark attack near Mission Beach today. Mr Katter extended his condolences to the victim’s family and the local community. “This is a completely unnecessary heartbreaking tragedy, and all North Queensland mourns with this family tonight. “We understand there be more clarity over the coming days about what eventuated, but locals have been raising concerns about the exploding shark populations, particularly bull sharks, which are completely out of control, for years. “Gererd Pike, a…
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Government Devoid of Answers Need Not Look Further Than Castle Law: Katter
Queenslanders are sick and tired of newspaper and social media headlines from the Government about being tough on crime, while our homes continue to be invaded, Leader of the KAP and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. The Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into KAP’s Castle Law Bill received over 700 submissions, the overwhelming majority of which were supportive. “The government has done little more than tinker around the edges of our Crime Crisis here in Queensland,” Mr Katter said. “It was only in February that the LNP and their backbenchers were all over social media holding ankle bracelets, touting…
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KAP TABLES ETHANOL AND BIOFUELS BILL TO STRENGTHEN FUEL SECURITY AND END GOVERNMENT WEAKNESS
Katter’s Australian Party MP and Member for Hill, Shane Knuth, is tabling the Liquid Fuel Supply (Ethanol and Other Biofuels Mandate) Amendment Bill 2026 this week in State Parliament, declaring Queensland can no longer afford to leave its fuel security in the hands of overseas oil companies and weak government policy. The KAP’s Bill comes amid support from major agricultural and manufacturing bodies, including the National Farmers’ Federation, GrainGrowers, Australian Sugar Manufacturers and CANEGROWERS, jointly calling for immediate national ethanol and biodiesel mandates to strengthen Australia’s fuel security. Mr Knuth said the Bill was designed to finally enforce and strengthen Queensland’s failing ethanol…
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KAP Biofuels Bill Chance for Government to Put Words into Action: Katter
The Brisbane major parties need to get over their egos and remember they govern for Queensland, not for political point scoring, Leader of the KAP and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter praised the KAP’s Member for Hill, Shane Knuth, for tabling a biofuels mandate bill that would force big oil companies to use more ethanol and biodiesel, kick starting a revitalisation of the biofuels industry in Queensland. “If the government is too scared to act, or put its shoulder to the wheel, then the KAP will,” Mr Katter said. “The agriculture industry is backing it,…
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Budget a ‘giant disappointment’ on nation-building self-sufficiency
24 April 2026: As the world’s rules-based order unravels, the Federal Budget reveals a nation still trying to find quick fixes instead of investing in self-sufficiency for sustainable economic resilience. “This is a giant missed opportunity to utilise our own natural resources and invest in domestic power plants, refineries and biofuels that future-proof our energy security,” said veteran North Queensland MP Bob Katter. “More must be done to reserve Australia’s natural resources for domestic use, as the lifeblood for our rural and regional communities to not just survive but thrive. But it’s clear we’re nothing more than a quarry to…
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Proof of Gas Reservation Rollout in the Price Pudding: Katter
After years of LNP and Labor both chasing the free market dream, the Federal Government seem to have listened, but the only measure of success it if gas prices substantially come down, Leader of the KAP and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. “The KAP have been warning successive governments for more than a decade of the impending doom facing industry from high gas prices and pushing solutions such as a Gas Reservation Policy to address the supply and price of gas,” he said. Mr Katter spoke in Queensland Parliament on 11 September 2013 saying solutions were urgently…
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Katter backs in farmers’ pre-Budget ethanol plea to fuel our future
After spending half his 50-year political life fighting to secure a home-grown supply of cleaner and greener biofuels, Federal MP Bob Katter has backed in an historic alliance of agricultural heavyweights united behind a national ethanol mandate – to protect our health and enable our iconic feedstock industries to deliver greater fuel self-sufficiency – at the highest levels of government. Following direct discussions with Canberra in the wake of yesterday’s joint plea by Australia’s peak grain and sugarcane representatives for sustainably produced ethanol-blended petrol to be mandated nationwide, the North Queensland MP called on the Federal Government to “provide reassurances…
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Divided govts must hold hands to future-proof powerhouse
AUSTRALIA’S longest-standing Member of Parliament, Bob Katter, has called for “unification in the national interest” between the major parties divided in running the country and state of Queensland “to finally future-proof the world-class North West Minerals Province” via an East Coast energy grid connection. The Federal Member for Kennedy has written to the Prime Minister to formally request his Labor Government work in unity with Queensland’s Liberal-National counterparts, on behalf of the Australian people, to build the CopperString transmission line as “not a project that can – or should – be left to drift” and “national priority”. “By recognising our…
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307 Days and Counting: Katter Calls Out Inaction on CopperString
Words don’t build power lines! Clear direction and firm delivery deadlines do, the KAP Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said. “It’s been 307 days since the Premier first stood in Parliament to announce the welcome funding allocation to CopperString, but there’s been nothing tangible since,” Mr Katter said. “The Premier as usual gave a good answer in words, but none of it is backed by any action on the ground. He even publicly backed my call for Federal funding. “But all we can see on the ground is a workers camp with no workers. “Labor also tried…
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Statement Bob Katter – Prioritise Australia first with the immediate introduction of a reserved resources policy
VETERAN Federal MP Bob Katter has pleaded with government to finally prioritise Australia first with the immediate introduction of a reserved resources policy to secure our national energy needs, while globetrotting politicians scramble to stockpile month-by-month supplies of foreign-owned fuel at international crisis prices underwritten by taxpayers. After decades of fighting for our natural resources to be set aside to satisfy domestic requirements before foreign-funded exploitation and export, the North Queensland MP of half-a-century is enraged that the long-overdue national reserve resource policy for gas – finally announced by Government at Christmas – is still not in place despite emergency…
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Katter Writes to PM, Formally Requests Federal Funding for CopperString
Responding to reports from North West Mayors, Traeger MP and KAP Leader Robbie Katter has formally written to the Prime Minister to urgently request federal funding for CopperString. After the Premier doubled down on the importance of CopperString to Queensland, the Queensland Treasurer has also failed to tell the Queensland Parliament if the Government has formally requested Federal Funding for the Nationally significant CopperString project. “My local Mayors have come back from a delegation to Canberra and tell me the Federal Government haven’t received any formal requests for funding for CopperString,” Leader of the KAP and state Member for Traeger…
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Katter to move for post-war protection against public persecution
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter will introduce laws to protect the identity of war veterans from summary judgement by media, and ensure all legal matters involving warfare decision-making by deployed Defence Force personnel go to a court system judged by their peers – other combat soldiers using war-time standards – when Parliament resumes for Budget week in May. Announcing the private member’s bill being drafted to cover veterans if they faced legal challenges from war service, Mr Katter today said he was “enraged by the erosion of the rule of law” in Australia since the arrest of scapegoated…
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CopperString Critical to Save Million Litres of Diesel Per Week: Katter
More than 1.2 million litres of diesel every week could be back in the hands of our truckies and farmers if we had CopperString to Mount Isa, Robbie Katter, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger has said. A survey of power-isolated mines in the North West Minerals Provence has revealed 13 triple road trains a week are needed to generate on-site electricity, with that figure set to more than double to 30 triple road trains weekly, in the next five years as mines expand, while CopperString is not delivered. “It’s beyond belief that we are going to…
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Plea to PM: ‘Secure fuel supply soon or sugar season will go sour’
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter, has delivered an urgent warning to Australia’s Prime Minister that without immediate intervention, rocketing fuel costs and unresolved supply shortages are critically threatening the viability of Australia’s sugar industry now and into the future. In urgent discussions with the PM about the unfolding threat hanging over the iconic North Queensland industry, while Australians reconsidered their travel plans heading into Good Friday, Mr Katter emphasised the escalating concerns of local cane growers and industry more broadly through representations by Queensland Cane Agriculture and Renewables – warning the 2026 sugar harvest is now at serious…
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Fuel Security Warnings Not New – Now It’s Gone to Custard: Katter
“If things turn to custard, you’re likely to have a problem,” John Blackburn, Ret. Vice Air Marshall said, almost four years ago on a podcast hosted by Robbie Katter, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger. “John sent the warning loud and clear in 2022 and has continued to since – Australia is far from prepared for global shocks to the fuel market like we’re seeing now,” Mr Katter said. “The free marketeers have been caught with their pants down, and the rest of Australia are the ones left to pay. “We had eight refineries in Australia, using…
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‘The people forced their hand’ on fuel excise, road charge
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter has declared the Government’s decision to finally halve their fuel excise at the bowser, and suspend the heavy vehicle road user charge, as a win for Australia’s transport industry and regional communities who refused to back down. The decision to halve the 52c litre fuel excise on every litre sold for three months follows mounting national pressure, as surging fuel prices and crippling supply shortages cut deep and wide to increasingly disrupt everyday life and threaten livelihoods nationwide. “Today’s decision has only happened because Australians stood up and demanded action,” said Mr Katter…
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Katter Continues 14 Years of Calls for National Fuel Security via Robust Ethanol Mandate
Yesterday in Parliament the Premier stood on Labor’s position and refused to commit to taking tangible action on fuel security by implementing a robust ethanol mandate, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger has said. In opposition the LNP put three bills into Parliament to implement an ethanol mandate, then refused to support the KAP bill in 2014. “The fuel crisis is well beyond party politics now,” Mr Katter said. “I’ve presented this solution to Queensland Parliament more than 20 times in my 14 years in this job, and instead of investing in our fuel security for times…
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Petition Demands Urgent Action on Dangerous Whiting’s Crossing
Member for Hill Shane Knuth has today tabled a Queensland Parliament petition backed by more than 1,200 local residents calling on the State Government to urgently fund repairs and upgrades to Whiting’s Crossing on the Tully–Mission Beach Road. The petition highlights growing community concern about the safety and reliability of the ageing bridge, which has become increasingly dangerous for motorists, cyclists and pedestrians. Mr Knuth said the message from the community was loud and clear. Whiting’s Crossing is no longer fit for purpose and immediate action is needed. “This is not a new issue. I have been relentlessly advocating for upgrades…
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Ethanol in biofuels mix of fuel security solutions to supply crises
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter today joined independent Parliamentarians from across Australia to demand the urgent implementation of self-sufficient national fuel solutions that properly protect families, farmers, transport and regional industries from being crippled by global oil crises. Together, the North Queensland MP and fellow crossbenchers – from the country electorates of Mayo in South Australia and Calare in New South Wales, along with the Hobart-based MP for Clark, and the Western Sydney MP for Fowler – today outlined a number of domestic fuel security solutions that the Government has refused to take up in recent weeks, including:…
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Government Inaction on Innisfail Helipad Putting Lives at Risk
Member for Hill, Shane Knuth, has slammed the Queensland Government on its latest response to a Question in parliament on reinstating the Innisfail Hospital helipad. Mr Knuth said the issue has dragged on for years, forcing critically ill patients to be transported more than 6 kilometres from the Innisfail Aerodrome to the hospital. “I have lobbied both the former and current governments relentlessly, yet we continue to be stonewalled while lives are put at risk,” Mr Knuth said. “Instead of fixing the problem, the Government continues to hide behind feasibility studies, reports and bureaucratic excuses. The money spent on these…
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World Desperate for Queensland Resources, LNP Government Still Says No! Katter
The LNP Government in Queensland is blindly holding sticking to their long-held woke position alongside Labor that Queensland’s rich uranium resources should be locked away underground, at a time when Europe is turning back to nuclear, The Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. The President of the European Commission has recently said Europe turning their back on nuclear power was a “strategic mistake for Europe”, triggering reports of the Bank of America forecasting the potential for uranium spot prices to reach US$135/lb by the end of the year, nearing record…
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Halve fuel excise or watch fruit rot and shelves empty
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter has written to the Prime Minister to immediately halve fuel excise tax to deliver emergency relief from record price pressures crippling the nation’s freight industry, and protect Australia’s primary producers. Mr Katter has warned the PM that farmers and freight operators being crushed by skyrocketing fuel costs across North Queensland are now reaching breaking point – with the escalating threat to their viability raising alarm that Australia’s biggest banana-growing region faces the prospect of fruit being left to rot this season, due to prohibitive fuel prices for harvest and transport. “If we fail…
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NORTH QUEENSLAND IS BEING ROBBED OF A VOICE – KNUTH SLAMS PROPOSAL TO ABOLISH HILL ELECTORATE
Member for Hill Shane Knuth has launched a fierce attack on the Queensland Redistribution Commission’s proposal to abolish the electorate of Hill, warning it will strip North Queensland communities of their voice in Parliament. Under the Commission’s proposal, which endorses the LNP submission recommending the abolishment of Hill, the electorate would be dismantled and absorbed into neighbouring electorates including Mulgrave, Hinchinbrook and Flinders, diminishing North Queensland seats from 13 to 12 – increasing Brisbane to more than 60. This is in spite of an overwhelming number of submissions to the Commission that strongly opposed abolishing the seat of Hill. Mr…
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Home Grown Fuel Security Opportunity Still Untapped: Katter
It’s mind-blowing to know we can grow our own fuel, ethanol, with sugar cane and grain, yet we are told to helplessly brace for skyrocketing fuel prices because of the Middle East war, the Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. In his now 14 years in the Queensland Parliament Mr Katter has fervently pushed for ethanol mandates and incentives to drive the industry and build capacity to produce Australian grown and manufactured fuel. “More than 20 speeches in parliament, some 40 or more media articles, and a 4% mandate that…
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Phosphate Hill Sale is Welcomed Stability: Katter
After a protracted period of uncertainty, it’s great to hear today of the sale and ongoing operation of the Phosphate Hill Fertiliser Plant, the Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. Dyno Nobel have announced to the ASX that Mayfair Australia Corporation will be acquiring the plant, securing 540 jobs. “Phosphate Hill is more than just a mine in our area, it’s an integral part of a wider industrial ecosystem,” Mr Katter said. “Without Phosphate Hill taking the sulphur emissions from the smelter, the smelter is impacted, and without the million…
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Knuth And Katter Confident Of Atherton Rifle Ranges Future
Member for Hill Shane Knuth says he is increasingly confident the future of the historic Atherton Rifle Range will be secured following positive discussions with both Federal and State governments. The confidence comes after the Australian Government confirmed that Defence will be engaging with stakeholders regarding the divestment of its lease with the State Government on the Atherton Rifle Range. In correspondence to Mr Knuth, the Assistant Minister for Defence confirmed that Defence will work collaboratively with affected organisations during the transition process. “Defence is now engaging with businesses operating on impacted sites to manage transition timelines and minimise disruption.…
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Community Rallies Against Charters Towers Housing Destruction
Passionate Charters Towers locals, with only 24 hours’ notice rallied at the site of the former Eventide Aged Care units to join Robbie Katter MP in calling out the galling insanity of housing units being bulldozed in the middle of an acute housing crisis. Mr Katter addressed the crowd, saying there was no need for this destruction, given there is a developer ready to step in and convert the units for housing, at no cost to the taxpayer. “We have people leaving town, businesses closing their doors with no staff, and people living in tents and caravans, and the government…
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Confusion Reigns on CopperString Ownership: Katter
I don’t get it – will Queenslanders own CopperString, or will the industry and job creating project be sold off to a multinational like Glencore who only have the interests of their boardroom at heart? Katter’s Australian Party Leader, and Member for Traeger has said. Mr Katter asked the Treasurer and Energy Minister in Parliament last sitting week if he would categorically rule out handing the CopperString project to private ownership, to which the Treasurer answered “…we are absolutely determined to keep state involvement, state ownership and a state management process involved…” “The Treasurer was clear in his answer in…
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Personal statement on being thrown out of Parliament
I was thrown out of Parliament today for daring to raise what millions of Australians are already talking about – that the Australian Government must immediately address the unsustainably high level of migration and its serious impact on the state of the nation, by urgently implementing a policy of ‘no migration without integration’. That was the subject raised in my Matter of Public Importance. The Labor Government opposed it. So did the ‘woke teal’ MPs on the crossbenches. The Member for Warringah went so far as to try and have me sanctioned just for raising the issue. Australians deserve to…
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Every Queenslander’s Democratic Right in Question: Katter.
“We’ve just seen a huge national debate play out in the Federal Parliament around free speech, and the state government have a chance to make amends for their federal colleagues voting to curtail free speech. The irony can’t be lost that a party that would typically be associated with free speech are now pioneers of denying the same right in one of our most important arenas,” the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) leader and State Member for Traeger said. Mr Katter has announced he will move a motion without notice on the first sitting day of 2026 in the Queensland Parliament, on Tuesday, to…
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2032 Brisbane Party Puts Rest of Queensland Back in the Dark Ages: Katter
They’re delusional! Even the Olympics boss is now saying there’s no hope of delivering in the budget, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger has said. This week, Brisbane Olympics chief Andrew Liveris said, “The costing out of that [means] we have the bid budget and that bears no resemblance to reality, especially right now.” “When even the boss himself is calling it out, it’s time that the Brisbane Government come clean and tell Queenslanders that they have been sold a dud, and for good measure, they’ll have to wait another six years before you’ll see any construction outside…
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Border control, Biosecurity in Tatters
Despite 1.3 billion dollars of Australian’s taxes being spent on so-called border control Torres Strait locals have contacted me, and local media are reporting fishermen from Indonesia casually coming ashore and ordering a beer after brazenly illegally fishing in our waters. What sort of show are we running in this country? Thank goodness these fellas were ‘just fishermen’. Here in Queensland our state Government has a tagline ‘Open for Business’, and that couldn’t be truer in the case of Queensland’s Roko Island in the Torres Strait where the fishermen landed – but the wrong sort of ‘open’! What sort of…
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Call for irrigation intervention to tap wasted floodwaters
FEDERAL Member for Kennedy Bob Katter has been reprimanded in Parliament for questioning eight years of “dithering” by governments on North Queensland water security, as lost opportunity floods into the sea. After decades of no dams being built by governments spending hundreds of millions of dollars on successive studies instead, Mr Katter challenged Australia’s Treasurer to just “create a water authority and call tenders” on $170 million of federal funding for a pioneering project set to take a fraction of the north’s mighty monsoonal river flows, to irrigate the rich plains west of the Great Divide. “Treasurer, you won’t get…
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Rivers of Opportunity Lost – Measure Water Properly, Build Dams, Develop North Queensland: Katter
The latest floods have again shown that the ‘data’ used by the bureaucrats in Brisbane for all things water is farcical, or terribly inaccurate at best, The Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger has said. Mr Katter has again seen first-hand the vast inland sea that is very slowly making its way north to the Gulf of Carpentaria. “The Department simply have no idea how much water there is! They’re the same Department who openly say there isn’t enough water to release to farmers,” Mr Katter said. “The ‘data’ and tools available to the number crunchers only work…
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Labor is drunk on power – killing the bush pub and Australia’s soul next in line in ‘woke agenda’
KENNEDY MP Bob Katter MP led a scathing attack on the Albanese Government’s handling of the Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025 in Parliament, calling it un-Australian and warning that it wasclear Labor was drunk on power moving legislation that threatens the heart of Aussie culture – having a beer at the local pub. “The original Labor Party was born in the pubs of Australia. These fellas in those days would quite literally drag you out of a pub and punch you in the face if you didn’t take a union ticket out – yet here we are, debating…
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Minister commits to Katter growth of industry in Isa/Townsville
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter, met with the Minister for Industry and Innovation, Hon Tim Ayres, in Parliament on the first sitting day of the year, as Rio Tinto’s proposed merger with Glencore’s Mount Isa Smelter reaches D-Day. Mr Katter thanked the Minister for his efforts to keep the smelter and refinery operating and requested his support to welcome Rio Tinto into the fold. “Rio Tinto are miners. They know how to mine. In fairness to Glencore, they have always been up front that they weren’t miners, they were commodity traders. So, in my view, this is a…
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Katter calls for ‘No Migration without Assimilation’ after ‘Frankenstein’ Bills introduced
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter has slammed the Federal Government for being masters of diversion rushing through laws in parliament today which will further restrict responsible gun owners and risk freedom of speech, instead of placing the focus on the flood of mass immigration and the radicalisation of the individuals, combined with systematic government failure in intelligence sharing, immigration controls and firearms licencing enforcement. He labelled the bills as being like ‘Frankenstein’ and said that putting the focus on gun ownership and freedom of speech wouldn’t prevent Bondi from occurring in the future. Mr Katter, who was gagged…
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“The people of Australia mourn for you” – Katter’s condolences
KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter will extend his support to the Jewish community in Australia during a condolence motion in Parliament House today. The murder of so many innocent, everyday Australians, including the youngest – ten-year-old ‘Matilda’ – MUST be condemned at the highest level. Mr Katter said, “This wonderful little kid was murdered. “This lovely little girl called Matilda, whose parents had migrated to Australia and name their first child born in this country ‘Matilda’ as a tribute. My heart bleeds for them. This innocent little girl was shot dead by Islamic Extremists. “These murders were ‘known’ by the authorities,…
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‘A Stitch in Time Saves Nine’ – Opportune Time for Feral Pig Action: Katter
Landholders are the kings of practical actions that make the most of any situation, The Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger has said. Mr Katter toured extensively through the flood ravaged areas of Traeger over the last four days. “I was in a grazier’s chopper being shown around, and he made the clear observation that like the surviving cattle, wild pigs are corralling on the islands that have formed in the inland sea that is the flood water,” the KAP Leader said. “While the flood water presents many challenges, one opportunity would be for real and effective…
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Flooded Again – but Governments still dry on solutions – Katters tour disaster zone
KAP Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter, has unleashed on the federal and state government warning that this year’s flooding, stock losses and road destruction across the mid-west and Gulf must be the turning point for governments who continue to treat North Queensland’s annual wet season as an “unexpected emergency” instead of preparing for it properly. Mr Katter said the region cannot continue enduring the same crisis, the same damage, and the same bureaucratic battles every single year. He warned the government that the scale of this year’s losses will not be minimised or brushed aside. “If the losses compare…
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Queensland Rail the Only Dam Builders in Queensland: Katter
After seeing the devastating flooding firsthand, it’s clear the only new dams in Queensland are to be found against Queensland Rail (QR) tracks! The Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader, and Member for Traeger has said. Large swathes of built-up rail line with poor drainage in the flood affected areas around Julia Creek are acting as dam walls, preventing flood waters from receding. “There’s a heap of water across such a large landscape trying to work its way out to sea in the Gulf, and to see built-up rail line without drainage holding back the flow is just another hit to the…
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Thanks… But scrap the ‘planning’ and the start the building
FEDERAL Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter MP, has welcomed today’s $38 million flood recovery package announced by the Albanese and Crisafulli Governments for North-West Queensland, while warning that short-term relief must not replace long-term flood-proofing and real infrastructure delivery. “I thank the Prime Minister for coming to the North-West and for acknowledging the scale of what our people are dealing with,” Mr Katter said. “But let me be clear… This is only a start. What we are seeing time and again is money spent on designs, reviews, and reports, while communities remain cut off and producers are left exposed to…
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Katter Calls for Wider Community Support, Welcomes Support for Agriculture
Activation of the Personal Hardship Assistance Scheme is urgently needed across a wider range of communities, with the impact of the North West floods beginning to bite, the Katter’s Australian Party Leader, and Member for Traeger has said. “Today we’ve had a great set of announcements of support for our agriculture sector.” the KAP Leader said. “At the same time, I’ve had many families contact me seeking assistance to pay for unforeseen accommodation and food costs, while they are stranded away from home and their workplaces. “Employees remain isolated from their hometowns and local businesses across the North West are…
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North West Queensland Floods – Counting the Cost While Bracing for What’s Next: Katter
North Queenslanders are a stoic breed, but when communities are cut off for days and weeks, families and employees are stranded away from home, and businesses are inundated, it’s when we need to band together, along with government, the Katter’s Australian Party Leader, and Member for Traeger has said. “While the rain had mostly cleared for now, the true impact of the rain between Christmas and New Year is really yet to be revealed,” Mr Katter said. River systems across North West Queensland are sodden, with water slowly moving towards to Gulf Country and out to sea. “Landholders, and local…
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Price is King – Reservation Meaningless While Prices Remain High: Katter
No one can see the Federal Government’s Gas Reservation announcement as anything but ‘the announcement when you’re not going to have an announcement’, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. “Until there is real, tangible action on price, then anything else is simply a ‘Clayton’s’ gas policy”, Mr Katter said. Reliable, affordable energy is one of the key ingredients needed to unlock North West Queensland’s $680 billion minerals potential, and the KAP have long been calling for a true Gas Reservation Policy which caps the price of gas for industrial users. “The KAP are…
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OpEd: Robbie Katter MP – Control Immigration, Stop the Hate, Stop the Terror
December 14th will be forever etched in Australia’s history as the day terrorists brutally murdered innocent Australians basking in summer sunshine. We’ll always remember the horrific act. We will also remember that it was the government’s inaction in addressing the radicalisation within our community that caused this. Un-feted immigration from places with no rule of law, no democracy, no Judea-Christian values, and no industrial awards, has fostered a culture of hate, of antisemitism, and of radicalism in our communities. And for the Federal government to brazenly and clumsily attempt to divert public attention to the non-issue of gun laws is appalling…
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GLENCORE CONTINUES TO STAND ON GOVT’S THROAT, BULLIES WORKERS: KATTER
When will the Government stand up to the bullying tactics of multinational giant Glencore after its $600 million taxpayer-funded bailout leads to pay disputes and threatened strikes, Member for Traeger and Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter has asked. Following claims of deceptive “smoke and mirrors” pay deals that rebranded existing payments as pay rises, Mr Katter called on both Queensland and Federal Governments to stand up to the corporate bully after handing its CEO hundreds of millions of Australian taxpayers’ dollars. “Why are we tolerating these behaviours and games from a multinational monster that wanted to pump waste into…
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No Migration without Assimilation – Katter calls for guts, guns and the ‘Gumtrees’ in the wake of Bondi
KAP Kennedy MP, Bob Katter, has blasted the Federal Government for their ‘blame shifting’, ‘vote buying’ and ‘attention diverting’ politicking in response to the tragic Bondi shooting, warning that persecuting responsible firearm owners will only escalate terror risk at the hands of mass immigration, and people becoming radicalised because of mass immigration. He said the priority should instead be on immediately closing the immigration floodgates and moving laws that will deliver no migration without assimilation. “I serve warning today; the Federal Government must immediately implement a strict, unapologetic policy of ‘NO MIGRATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION’ or we, ‘The Gumtree Australians’, will…
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