Wednesday, 18 Oct, 2023
A leaked letter outlining the Commonwealth Labor Government’s plans to hang Australia farmers, fishers and battlers out to dry in order to appease international elites has been described as the “blueprint for regional destruction” by furious North Queensland-based MPs. The letter, authored by Federal Environment and Water Minister Tanya Plibersek to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay […]
KATTER’S Australian Party MP Bob Katter is calling on governments to intervene immediately in the closure of Glencore’s Mount Isa Mines copper operation – to preserve the best interests of the North Western city and Australia’s critical reliance on the essential metal. With Glencore announcing it was closing its copper mining at Mount Isa […]
"Mount Isa and Queensland will be learning today of Glencore’s decision to close its Mount Isa Copper Operation (Mount Isa Mines) in 2025. I understand their other local operations, at George Fisher and the lead and copper smelter, and refinery in Townsville will continue while operations at Lady Loretta are also forecast to cease in […]
Monday, 16 Oct, 2023
More than 68 per cent of Queenslanders have voted “No” to a Voice to parliament but Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs say there is a bigger message behind the State’s overwhelming rejection and it’s not purely an Indigenous issue. KAP Leader and Traeger MP, Robbie Katter said the governing centres and inner-city urbanites still had […]
Friday, 13 Oct, 2023
Recent incidents of vigilante behaviour demonstrate community desperation as the State Government grapples to come up with a single policy that has a substantial impact on the scourge of youth crime. In the wake of an appalling week of youth crime, community members in Townsville and the Gold Coast have allegedly taken matters into their […]
Queensland’s ethanol and biofuels industries has been dealt a significant blow as both major parties, and surprisingly even the Greens voted against Katter’s Australian Party’s (KAP) Liquid Fuel Supply (Minimum Biobased Petrol Content) Amendment Bill 2022 (the Bill). The Bill offered a potential lifeline to Queensland’s struggling ethanol and biofuels industry, and its rejection raises […]