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‘Lacking backbone’: Katter points out major flaw in supermarket prices inquiry report
Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter, who has championed the push for supermarket divestiture for more than a decade, has doubled down on his calls for the major supermarkets to be forced to reduce their market share, while shifting corporate oversight powers away from ASIC and ACCC to the Australian Federal Police. Mr Katter’s calls […]
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Katter applauds farmers for ridiculing the Grocery Code
Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter is thanking growers for recommending that the Grocery Code be trashed and a proven law enforcement body, like the AFP, put in place to reel in the power of the supermarket giants. In April, the Government handed down yet another report recommending little more than improved self-regulation. Increased penalties […]
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Labor’s electricity price band-aid hides renewables blowou
Friday, 3 May, 2024
While the announcement of a $1,000 electricity rebate might offer some short-term relief for residents grappling with soaring power bills, the rebate could not be the long-term solution according to Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto. “The latest initiative from the Miles Labor Government is nothing but a short-sighted attempt to mask its failure in providing cost-effective […]
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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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