The complete decentralisation of State Government departments to cities like Townsville and Cairns, or a North Queensland Parliamentary Council that would allow NQ-based MPs only to vote on issues and projects in the region, have been floated today as “self-governance” options by Katter’s Australian Party...
A 329 per cent increase[2] in Queensland crocodile sightings during the decade to 2021 should deeply alarm the Palaszczuk Labor Government, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter has re-iterated calls on behalf of North and central Queenslanders for...
The Cloncurry Chamber of Commerce is calling on the State Government to deliver an expansion to the current hospital in the booming town. Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter advised he was prepared to back the Chamber of Commerce on its calls following...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called on the Palaszczuk Labor Government to open up its purse strings and ensure outback Queensland councils, including those who communities were devastated by flood events earlier in the year, are not forgotten. Mr Katter fronted...
The announcement of almost $500,000 in funding this week to be delivered to two programs aimed at targeting youth offending in Townsville and Mount Isa is another band-aid on the State’s crime crisis wound. That's according to Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter. The...
Katter’s Australian Party leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter is calling on the State Government to lodge an enquiry into its aggressive reach to obtain more land for under-resourced national parks. This comes following a blaze that burned out of control in White Mountains National Park...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter is ramping up pressure for the Palaszczuk Labor Government to deliver a new hospital to Charters Towers. Mr Katter stated that the current hospital in Charters Towers was over 100 years old and the region desperately needed...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called on Police Minister Mark Ryan to rule out on what he believes could be the “systemic, chronic and possibly deliberate” under-reporting of crime across Queensland. Mr Katter last week issued, in a Question on Notice,...
As country racing has kicked off in western Queensland in recent weeks, momentum is building for a “jockey school” – or mentoring program – to recruit more jockeys and track staff to offset crippling shortages. Amid claims that the North-West had only five or six locally-based...
The recent flooding throughout North West Queensland has wreaked havoc, destroying homes, properties and businesses, many of which do not fit within current funding guidelines and boundaries, leaving them without any support. The owners of the Dangi Pub in Urandangi took to Facebook recently to deliver...