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. KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said...
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. Health...
This Saturday, the people of the Callide electorate will go to the polls again. Former Member Colin Boyce was successful last month in his tilt for a Federal seat, and so his old State electorate must return to the polls. Most people have had enough of politics...
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. The Traeger MP, who is a long-term advocate for local gas reserves and regulated pricing...
The enormous price being paid for gas in Australia at present is outrageous. For more than 10 years, the Katter’s Australian Party has been the lone wolf in the State and Federal Parliaments in saying we need a national gas reserve policy. We have advocated that it’s...
The tide may soon turn on the damage wrought to rural Queensland by the noxious prickly acacia weed. A federal funding injection into a western Queensland project, which turns the damaging weed into a valuable carbon-neutral energy source, will help bring the ground-breaking renewable energy plant...
The Palaszczuk Government needs to put its ego aside and agree to trial the kind of alternative sentencing options, such as ‘on-country sentencing’, for recidivist youth offenders that are being spear-headed in other states, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Yesterday,...
The Palaszczuk State Government looks set to deny the Queensland seafood industry a much-needed boost, with the Labor-stacked committee responsible for reviewing Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter’s Seafood Labelling Bill recommending the Bill not be passed. Mr Katter said the Committee’s refusal to support his...
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter was met with a strong show of support for his Blue Card Bill when he visited Cape York communities last week. This Bill, which is currently being considered by the Queensland Legal Affairs and Safety Committee,...
KAP Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter says the long-awaited opening of the embattled Charleston Dam and the expansion of the Terrestrial Centre will deliver economic and cultural boosts to the Etheridge Shire. Mr Katter attended the grand opening of the Charleston Dam near Forsayth...