The Katter’s Australian Party will lobby the Palaszczuk Labor Government to provide legal protections to victims of crime, arguing the current system makes “criminals out of innocent people” whilst providing a hall pass to violent, recidivist juvenile offenders. KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said...
The key is finally starting to turn on repurposing more than 100 abandoned hostel units in a Charters Towers aged care facility as accommodation to help alleviate the state-wide housing shortage. Townsville Hospital and Health Service (THHS) recently confirmed with Member for Traeger and Katter’s Australian...
After once again using Parliament to commit to delivering the CopperString project, Robbie Katter is calling on Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to turn the first soil on the day marking Mount Isa's centenary (Mount Isa Day, 23rd February 2023). "I welcome the Premier's re-commitment to delivering CopperString...
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has welcomed the news overnight that a long overdue CT scanner will be delivered to the Charters Towers Hospital. It is expected that the total investment, announced by Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath, will be about $4.5...
The Palaszczuk Labor Government must look at alternate solutions to the youth crime crisis eroding life in North Queensland instead of wasting $500 million of taxpayer monies on repeated mistakes, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said. Yesterday, during a visit to North Queensland, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk...
Queensland’s only international border, between Cape York and the Torres Strait, would be exposed to potentially “catastrophic” risk if the Palaszczuk Labor Government was to proceed with any plans to shut down its Coen biosecurity centre, Katter’s Australian Party (Traeger MP) Leader Robbie Katter has...
Pressure on Queensland’s public health system – including ambulance ramping, bed blockages and staff shortages, could be reduced if the Palaszczuk Labor Government funded computed tomography (CT) scanners in all district hospitals, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader Robbie Katter has said. None of the Townsville region’s...
Transfer duty fees on properties purchased in rural and regional communities of fewer than 25,000 people would be halved under a policy that’s part of a “Population De-centralisation Plan” being pushed by Katter’s Australian Party MPs. KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter will today write...
Three days of troubling testimony into the issues of chronic unemployment, criminal recidivism and unbearable socio-economic disadvantage being experienced within Indigenous communities were not enough to rouse the interest of Labor’s Cairns and Townsville MPs last week. Speaking in following the staging of public hearings, held...
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter says a proposal to transform the KAP’s long-running bid for a Rural Development Bank into a Postal Savings Bank has his full support, with a Federal bill now in the pipeline. The Bill will seek...