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STATEMENT FROM ROBBIE KATTER MP – MOUNT ISA COPPER OPERATION
Wednesday, 18 Oct, 2023
"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 […]
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Queensland’s ‘no’ was about more than the Voice
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 […]
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Vigilante Vigor: Communities wrestle with risky alternatives in the battle against youth crime
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 […]
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Environmental Benefits Ignored as Parliament Rejects Biofuels Bill
Friday, 13 Oct, 2023
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 […]
Read moreKatter wants Aussie heroes on national currency, not a British ‘King’
Friday, 13 Oct, 2023
Proud Aussie Bob Katter said there should be a long string of fair dinkum Australians considered for imprinting on national currency, well ahead of a foreign "done-nothing" monarch who inherited power "without lifting a finger." "There could be no more un-Australian act then to have a foreigner on our coins," Mr Katter said. "Australians do […]
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NQ FISHERS “SOLD OUT” FOR FOREIGN INTERESTS: KAP
Thursday, 12 Oct, 2023
Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries Mark Furner’s refusal to intervene in the “sell-out” of North Queensland’s commercial fishing sector has made his position untenable, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said. KAP Leader Robbie Katter, speaking from Parliament in Brisbane today before flying out to attend a meeting of Gulf fishermen in Karumba tomorrow, said he […]
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