Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter says the “marathon” bureaucracy battle being fought to build the mid-west’s Hughenden Irrigation Project (HIPCo) has been recently buoyed by the Albanese Federal Government’s re-commitment to its $170 million funding pledge.
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) have joined forces with other members of the Queensland crossbench to fight for better nation building infrastructure in the regions.
JUST one day after the $5.5m announcement for North Queensland water planning, Kennedy MP Bob Katter put that commitment to the test by inviting the Federal Environment and Water Minister to tour Big Rocks Weir at Charters Towers.
The recent car thefts in Mingela and Ravenswood have led to further concern surrounding the states youth crime crisis for Katter’s Australian Party leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter.
The recent announcement of the Federal Budget included some amendments to the Home Guarantee Scheme, and other policies were announced affecting homebuyers and homeowners, however according to Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter the net still needs to be cast wider.
The complete decentralisation of State Government departments to cities like Townsville and Cairns, or a North Queensland Parliamentary Council that would allow NQ-based MPs only to vote on issues and projects in the region, have been floated today as “self-governance” options by Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs.
REGIONAL North Queenslanders have been provided the guarantee of physical bank branches, previously slated for closure, following Katter’s Australian Party’s (KAP) negotiations with a major operator.
Queensland’s personalised transport services sector has declined at such a rate that low taxi availability – especially in relation to wheelchair accessible vehicles – has left some Queenslanders feeling like prisoners in their homes.
Youth crime in Queensland has surged to catastrophic levels following the tragic and senseless crash in Maryborough over the weekend that left three people dead and another critically injured. The vehicle that caused the carnage was allegedly stolen and being driven by a 13-year-old boy who was known to police.
A 329 per cent increase[2] in Queensland crocodile sightings during the decade to 2021 should deeply alarm the Palaszczuk Labor Government, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
The Cloncurry Chamber of Commerce is calling on the state government to deliver an expansion to the current hospital within the booming town.
The announcement of almost $500,000 in funding this week to be delivered to two programs aimed at targeting youth offending in Townsville and Mount Isa is another band aid on the State’s crime crisis wound, said Katter’s Australian Party leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter.
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called on the Palaszczuk Labor Government to open up its purse strings and ensure outback Queensland councils, including those who communities were devastated by flood events earlier in the year, are not forgotten.
In dismal scenes last night, the LNP showed its true colours and sided with Labor as both parties voted down the Katter’s Australian Party’s (KAP) Private Members’ Motion on a widely-supported solution to youth crime.
Katter’s Australian Party leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter is calling on the state government to lodge an enquiry into their aggressive reach to obtain more land for under resourced national parks.
The loss of Cloncurry’s last remaining Biosecurity Queensland officer – which has shut down the local Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) office – could not have come at a more delicate time, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has warned.
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter is ramping up pressure for the Palaszczuk Labor Government to deliver a new hospital to Charters Towers.
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called on Police Minister Mark Ryan to rule out on what he believes could be the “systemic, chronic and possibly deliberate” under-reporting of crime across Queensland.
As country racing has kicked off in western Queensland in recent weeks, momentum is building for a “jockey school” – or mentoring program – to recruit more jockeys and track staff to offset crippling shortages.
The recent flooding throughout North West Queensland has wreaked havoc, destroying homes, properties and businesses, many of which do not fit within current funding guidelines and boundaries leaving them without any support.
Queensland is missing out on billions of dollars in mining activity due to the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s ideological opposition to opening up the State’s uranium industry.
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter is backing a program sending young, troubled Indigenous boxers from Mount Isa to a City vs Bush tournament in Brisbane as a meaningful circuit-breaker against spiralling youth crime.
Critical Gulf roads that support hundreds of millions of dollars annually are now unusable most of the year as Government coffers fill Brisbane’s $7.1 billion Cross River Rail “sinkhole” ahead of its opening in 2025.
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has slammed the Palaszczuk Queensland Government for playing shallow “tick and flick” politics with the plight of First Australians, lashing the lack of Indigenous community consultation on Labor’s “landmark” Path to Treaty Bill.
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has used a media conference in Cairns this morning to heighten calls to deploy Australian Defence Force (ADF) troops to the mammoth flood clean-up in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The Palaszczuk Government failed Queenslanders and all victims of youth crime today when they declined to allow amendments to be introduced into Parliament that would have created meaningful change and curbed the youth crime epidemic.
THE KATTER’S Australian Party Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, has hailed a proposed plan by a charity to build on Geoff Guest’s Petford Youth Training Camp (YTC) concept as a perfect complement to the party’s Re-location Sentencing policy, and is urging the Queensland Government to consider it as a part of the solution to the growing youth crime problem in Queensland.
The first test of a “voice” to Parliament failed last night thanks to the major parties and the Greens, Katter’s
Queensland’s licensed gun dealers, at the centre of the State’s firearm registration system, are threatening to walk away from the industry due to inexplicable approval processing delays that are driving their businesses into the ground, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs have warned.
The hardship payments of $180 for individuals and $900 for families currently being offered by the state government to those affected by the flooding in North West Queensland have been labelled as a nice gesture, but pointless.
MPs Bob and Robbie Katter visited Far North-West Queensland’s remote Gulf communities which have been isolated for months following record summer rainfall, and operating on limited basic goods and government support.
Australia Post’s future lie in the ability of the public-owned service to diversify and meet the needs of a modern-day nation that is being strangled by grotesque free-marketeers, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
The closure of Savannah Way due to long-term flooding has left the town of Doomadgee without everyday essentials and skyrocketing prices.
Thousands of regional Queenslanders who travel vast distances to receive medical treatment unavailable to them in their hometowns are being let down by Queensland Health which has not increased the Patient Transport Subsidy Scheme (“PTSS”) for the past 10 years, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said.
Police officers are being dispatched from Townsville in an attempt to help tackle Mount Isa’s spiralling youth crime crisis, but Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter wants more.
North West Queensland had untold resources to offer the world in “new economy minerals” like copper, cobalt, zinc and vanadium for the production of batteries and devices and can feed global technology demand, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
The ugly face of the state’s youth crime crises has again reared its head over the weekend with young criminals taking advantage of the bustle of the Goldfield Ashes in Charters Towers.
Another Queensland life has been tragically lost to youth crime, enraging Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs who said the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s perverse apathy towards the crisis has left Queensland communities in a “death spiral”.
A North Queensland MP desperate to save his cousin and other critically-unwell Australians wants every man, woman and child to be able to receive a free cheek swab kit in the post to see if they can give the gift of life.
The youth crime crisis has not only once again revealed the Queensland Labor Government’s ineffective way of dealing with a problem but also exposes their disregard to the regions.
The Queensland Youth Justice Minister must immediately commit to a radical overhaul of the State’s youth justice system if she is to retain her position and any semblance of respect from the community, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
A “Christmas crackdown” by the State Government on point-to-point transport operators is aiming fire at cabbies for engaging in the very same behaviours that underpin the business model of rideshare drivers like Uber.
Race clubs across the Traeger electorate have received significant cash injections from the state governments Country Racing Program Funding as 2022 comes to an end.
Essential utility workers, such as linesman and electricians, are being hamstrung in their ability to provide emergency repair services in North Queensland as a result of unrelenting youth crime, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
Katter’s Australian Party is flagging a proposal incentivising Year 12 students to take up the forgotten “wet” trades of bricklaying, concreting and scaffolding in a transitional schedule strategically-timed with the winter weather.
The “dam-phobic” and “anti-development” Palaszczuk Labor Government has surprised no one today with its announcement that it will not build the Bradfield Scheme, or any of its revised versions, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said
The $4.5 billion extra royalties windfall that will be paid to the Queensland Government this financial year must be solely invested in regional Queensland, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs have said.
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter says an ANZ service’s decision to cancel phone banking to the Australian shooting sector is born out of ignorance and recklessly virtue-signalling on an issue that contributes nothing to public safety.
The RSPCA would be stripped of its law enforcement and prosecutorial powers under amendments to be pursued today by Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs in the Queensland Parliament.
Mount Isa City and Cloncurry Shire councils could assume responsibility for the North-West local water assets for a small sum and leave struggling residents far better off financially, Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
