There is no greater issue facing Mount Isa and the North West than the planned closure of Glencore’s Mount Isa copper mine, Katter’s Australian Part (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter said. The planned closure will have a monumental impact on Mount Isa, facing...
Queensland’s commercial fishing industry had a chance to be saved from ideologically driven decimation on Tuesday, with the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) disallowance motion to reverse Labor’s gillnet bans in the Gulf of Carpentaria being debated in Parliament. “The Crisafulli government had a chance to put...
The Crisafulli government is at risk of failing gulf communities if sustainable funding for a haemodialysis (renal care) service in Normanton is not urgently forthcoming, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said. The long-awaited Normanton Hospital is set to open...
As Mount Isa stands on the brink of the looming closure of the copper mine and the 1,200 jobs at stake, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, is turning up the heat calling out the candidates for the Brisbane-based major...
It’s disgraceful that Charters Towers last redeveloped its hospital 50 years ago – it’s well past overdue, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. The KAP Leader was in Townsville to support Townsville Enterprise Limited’s (TEL) ‘Unlocking the North’ priorities,...
The Brisbane Climate Tax must be scrapped before all Queenslanders are sent broke and productive businesses are shut down, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has declared. “It’s moronic to think that cheap power, cheap Australian manufactured goods, mining projects, and...
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has sounded the alarm over the deteriorating state of Dalrymple National Park and the adjacent Fletcher Creek Camping Area in Charters Towers. Once a pristine natural attraction for locals and tourists alike, the park...
New climate taxes, soft-on-crime ‘solutions’, wasteful Olympic Games – it all needs to stop, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has announced on the eve of a landmark speaking tour of Far North Queensland with Senator Gerard Rennick. Visiting the pivotal...
Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has called on the Brisbane-based Labor and LNP to commit to scrapping the revenue-raising unmanned speed cameras and instead divert the millions spent on true road safety initiatives and youth crime should they win...
The carelessness of the bureaucrats in Queensland’s Transport and Main Roads (TMR) never ceases to amaze, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. Despite being the last day of school holidays and with bushfires being fought in the area, the...