Turning the tide on bush towns bleeding their youths to the cities is a key focus for Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter, who has this week introduced his Education (General Provisions) (Extension of Primary Schools in Remote Areas) Amendment Bill...
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs used Question Time in the Queensland Parliament to this week force the Premier to come clean on her involvement in the Commonwealth Government’s plot to destroy the futures of many North Queensland farmers and commercial fishers. Last week, Member for Kennedy,...
The Palaszczuk Labor Government, and in particular Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick, have in recent days been complicit with Glencore in the signing of an entirely unnecessary “death warrant” for the city of Mount Isa. On behalf of the community of Mount Isa, and the 1,200 jobs...
A leaked letter outlining the Commonwealth Labor Government’s plans to hang Australia farmers, fishers and battlers out to dry in order to appease international elites has been described as the “blueprint for regional destruction” by furious North Queensland-based MPs. The letter, authored by Federal Environment and...
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...
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...
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...
Solutions to the nation’s growing energy crisis, which has seen Australian electricity bills rise by up to 20 per cent over the past 12 months, were debated by energy experts, industry leaders and rural and regional representatives in a first-of-its-kind outback energy forum in Mount...
Egregious social issues eroding the lives of First Australians that could be addressed overnight were on full display when KAP Leader Robbie Katter and party founder Bob Katter toured Aurukun, Pormpuraaw and Doomadgee last week. Limited access to fresh and healthy produce due to distance...
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called out the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s “propaganda machine” as it tours North Queensland trying to drum up business and community sport for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games. This week the Premier and Minister for the...