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Northern Suburbs Petition Closes – All Eyes Now on State Budget
Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
A petition backed by 2,643 Queenslanders has been officially tabled in the Queensland Parliament, calling on the State Government to prioritise and expedite the planning, design, and construction of critical Bruce Highway and Woolcock Street corridor upgrades through Townsville’s Northern Suburbs. Member for Hinchinbrook Nick Dametto MP welcomed the tabling of the petition and said […]
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Katter declares KAP the only true Opposition as LNP fractures
Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
Federal Member for Kennedy, Hon. Bob Katter, views the split of the LNP as an inevitable result of the failed election campaign and lack of policy and conviction of either party. "Yesterday we had one party, the LNP, with no direction. Today we have two parties with no direction," stated Mr Katter. "Australia is in […]
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Reminder to Glencore: Queensland, Australia, owns Minerals and Decides who Mines Them
Friday, 9 May, 2025
Australia’s role in the worldwide critical and strategic minerals boom is being determined by the boardroom and CEO of a global commodity trader, the Federal, and State Members of Parliament, and Mayor have declared in Mount Isa. “Glencore have come out and have sought to remind Queenslanders that their Swiss boardroom control the destiny of […]
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Dametto: Repeal Labor’s Botched Mackerel Cuts
Thursday, 8 May, 2025
Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has welcomed the release of the 2025 Spanish mackerel Stock Assessment, which confirms that Queensland’s Spanish mackerel fishery is on the road to recovery. According to the new assessment, the stock biomass of Spanish mackerel in Queensland waters is now at a median of 34 […]
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OPINION – Let Parents Be Parents – Don’t Criminalise Discipline
Thursday, 8 May, 2025
OPINION – Let Parents Be Parents – Don’t Criminalise Discipline RE: Queensland Law Reform Commission – Review of particular criminal defences https://www.qlrc.qld.gov.au/reviews/review-of-particular-criminal-defences By Nick Dametto MP At a time when youth crime is spiralling out of control, we have the Queensland Law Reform Commission considering proposals that would make it illegal for parents to discipline their […]
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Talk is Cheap – Reform and Real Action, not Just Subsidies Needed: Katter
Thursday, 8 May, 2025
“While authorities continue to ‘talk’, and provide piecemeal ‘support’, the communities of the North West continue to live in as state of uncertainty about what the future holds,” the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said in Mount Isa today. At the North West MPX, the Minister for Natural Resources […]
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