Katter calls for east coast gas guarantee
The release of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) gas inquiry predicting a worsening supply shortfall into the east […]
CHEERS TO MODERATOR FOR ‘PUB WITH NO INSURANCE
Calls from rural Queensland publicans for government intervention to buffer soaring insurance costs topping $65,000 per year are being heard
Compensation the only fair way forward for fishers: KAP
Katter’s Australian Party MPs have called on Queensland Minister for Fisheries Mark Furner to apologise for his claim that the allegedly dire state of the east coast Spanish mackerel was the result of “overfishing” and have demanded he commit to compensating commercial fishers impacted by any forthcoming cuts to annual catch quotas
GOVTS HAVE BLOOD ON HANDS WITH DONOR RESTRICTIONS
MP Robbie Katter is calling on both governments to loosen life-threatening limits on already stretched blood, stem cell and bone marrow donations, brought to light by the plight of a young North Queensland woman with acute leukaemia
Community Must Speak up on New Workplace Rules
MP Robbie Katter has called on all Queensland business who use quad bikes and side-by-side vehicles in their line of work to speak up about proposed State Government regulations that will change the way they operate.
OP ED: WHAT ARE WE REALLY “PROUD” OF?
One thing that has been absent in the “Pride” jersey brouhaha this week is the substance of the cause that is being promoted and the real life political, social and cultural implications.
Premier, Treasurer prioritise CopperString for Qld’s future
Member for Traeger Robbie Katter asked the Premier and Treasurer the status of the Queensland Government’s delivery on its 2020 election commitment for an implementation plan for the 1000km electricity transmission network connecting the North West Minerals Province with the national electricity grid near Townsville.
Keep woke grandstanding out of sport: Katter
The Manly Sea Eagles marketing team’s decision to hijack the NRL Women in League’s Round and force all its players to wear Pride jerseys in Thursday’s clash with the Roosters is an example of “woke, corporate over-reach” that should be called out, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
Feral pigs prove to be greatest FMD risk: KAP
Katter’s Australian Party MPs are calling on the Palaszczuk Labor Government to immediately abandon its plans to ban a popular poison used on feral pig populations after a Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) scare in Victoria on Wednesday.
CRIME MINISTERS MUST FACE CAR THEFT HOTSPOT: KATTER
Residents remain under attack as criminals rack up 62 vehicle thefts from homes, businesses and caravan parks this year alone. Per capita, residents are six times more likely to have their car stolen in Mount Isa than they are in North Brisbane.
Travel ban may be a necessity as biosecurity risks grow
MP Robbie Katter has joined calls for the Federal Government to consider a non-essential travel ban between Australia and Indonesia, in a bid to mitigate growing biosecurity risks that could wipe out the nation’s livestock industries.
Red meat industries facing diabolical risk: Katter
Seventy per cent of Australia’s red meat industry would be wiped-out if either Foot and Mouth (FMD) or Lumpy Skin
Katter calls on support for local animal charities
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs will lobby the Palaszczuk Labor Government to commit to providing ongoing funding to independent, locally-run
KAP RENEWS PUSH FOR TITLE DEED OVERHAUL
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter is recharging a five-point KAP policy which principally calls to address restrictive title deeds and allow Indigenous Queenslanders to build and own their own homes.
Ag Ministers asleep as cattle diseases circle borders
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has warned Australia, and the world, could face a “protein predicament” if State and Federal Governments do not collectively and immediately move to safeguard the nation’s livestock from the biosecurity threats posed by Foot and Mouth and Lumpy Skin diseases.
KATTER OPPOSES BLANKET BANS ON ANIMAL CONTROLS
KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has objected to unfounded blanket bans on pest animal poisons and pronged dog collars laid out in an animal protection amendment bill he claims fails to address mounting concern over the RSPCA’s legal power.
STATE BUDGET DELIVERS ON SCRUBBY CREEK WORKS
The recent release of the State Budget saw a large win for Traeger roads, with upgrades funded along many of the electorate’s main roads, including the Flinders Highway, Gregory Developmental Road, Gulf Developmental Road, Burke Developmental Road and Hervey Range Road.
Mount Isa Engulfed by Car Crime Chaos
The delivery of this week’s State Budget saw no investment into any new methods to combat youth crime across the
Regions left to languish as taxes plug Budget blackhole
Treasurer Cameron Dick has failed to deliver desperate Queenslanders the hope they need to endure the unprecedented cost of living, energy, health, housing and crime crises engulfing the State, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter MP has said.
Traeger enjoys sugar hits, but high wont last: Katter
A $2 million police station for Burketown, new digs worth $5.8 million for coppers in Mount Isa, a bonanza of roads funding and more than $9 million for schools across Traeger have been promised in the 2022-23 Queensland Budget.
Katters slam Fed plan to push continue down renewables route
Katter’s Australia Party (KAP) Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter, and his son, KAP leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, have together slammed the Prime Minster and Energy Minister’s announcement today which encourages a more aggressive push toward renewable energy[i], a move they agree is disastrous given the turbulent power situation currently unfolding.
KAP pleads for vision of Treasurer prepares Qld Budget
An Olympics infrastructure offset fund, outback youth offender sentencing facility and a rural health workforce attraction program are among the Katter’s Australian Party’s (KAP) priorities for the 2022-23 Queensland Budget, due to be handed down on June 21.
Katter issues Traeger priorities ahead of QLD budget
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has announced his Traeger electorate funding and project priorities ahead of the Queensland Budget’s release next week, with a continued heavy focus on health, crime, and energy production.
AUSTRALIANS SUFFERING UNDER “TREASONOUS” GAS POLICIES
Queensland is a poorer place for the continued failure of State and Federal Government to implement a gas reserve policy, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
CQ ‘GROUND ZERO’ FOR COUNTRY’S CLIMATE WARS: KAP
Katter’s Australia Party (KAP) MPs have called on the Palaszczuk Labor Government to urgently commit to keeping the 700mw Callide B coal-fired power station online until at least 2038.
Statement from Robbie Katter MP – Gas prices
The enormous price being paid for gas in Australia at present is outrageous. For more than 10 years, the Katter’s
FED FUNDS FOR GREEN COAL TO HELP KILL ‘BUSH CANCER’
The tide may soon turn on the damage wrought to rural Queensland by the noxious prickly acacia weed.
KAP calls for Feds to cough up fees for future educators
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called on the newly-elected Albanese Federal Government to provide free tertiary education to Australia’s future early childhood educators in return for them pledging to work in rural and remote communities for a minimum period of five years.
KAP PITCHES “PRO-REGIONS” TAX POLICY TO NEXT FED GOVT
Differentiated pensions, housing supplements or Job Seeker payments for regional residents are potential outcomes of the Katter’s Australian Party’s call
WA shows vital ticker on youth crime issue
The Palaszczuk Government needs to put its ego aside and agree to trial the kind of alternative sentencing options, such
KAP’S BLUE CARD BILL BACKED BY COMMUNITIES
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter was met with a strong show of support for his
Statement from Robbie Katter MP
Overnight Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) lead, for the first time, debate in the Queensland Parliament about the impact that allowing biological males to participate in female sports would have on the integrity of these competitions, on the safety of female athletes and on women’s rights more broadly.
DAM AND EXHIBIT TO FLOW BENEFITS TO ETHERIDGE SHIRE
KAP Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter says the long-awaited opening of the embattled Charleston Dam and the expansion
FLINDERS OVERTAKING LANES ON ROAD TO NOWHERE
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has slammed the Department of Transport and Main Roads for its
Hope Arrives as Dialysis Clinic Opens in Towers
More than a decade of tireless lobbying has resulted in today’s opening of the long-awaited four-chair Charters Towers Satellite Dialysis