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...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has slammed the Department of Transport and Main Roads for its snail’s-pace approach to installing potentially lifesaving overtaking lanes on the Flinders Highway between Townsville and Charters Towers. The desperately-needed upgrades had been in the works for...
A 60 per cent increase in abortions in Queensland between 2018 – when sweeping termination of pregnancy laws were passed – and 2019 has been sanitised from history by the Palaszczuk Labor Government, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Detailing a...
Outback Queensland communities including Mount Isa, Biloela and Longreach would be an ideal home for some of the thousands of Afghan refugees seeking to escape the Taliban’s return to power, Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter said rural Queensland had been for...
Cleveland Youth Detention Centre may be full but the Queensland outback is open and ready to accept and sort out repeat offenders as part of Katter’s Australian Party’s (KAP) innovative Relocation Sentencing Policy. Spurred on by news today that North Queensland’s only dedicated youth detention facility...
Feral pig numbers would balloon, injured and unwell animals could be relegated to suffering cruel deaths and on-farm safety may be compromised following the abandonment of the licensed firearm industry by major freight carriers, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have warned. KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie...
The buy-up of Aussie farmland by multi-national corporations is proof locals are being priced-out of their own country, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter said, given the lessons of COVID-19 about protecting national assets and security, a Regional Development...
Katter’s Australian Party MPs have described the $1 billion redevelopment of south-east Queensland’s Gabba stadium, announced today as part of the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games bid, as “gluttony of the highest order” that will further entrench neglect of Queensland’s regions Despite state debt levels rising to...
The “regionalisation” of the State’s First Home Owners’ Grant is the only way to address the housing crisis impacting communities outside major cities, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said. Responding to a pandemic-induced phenomenon that has seen regional rental vacancy rates drop to unprecedented lows despite...
Labor has intensified its anti-rural ideological crusade, with the State Government announcing it has teamed up with the RSPCA to deliver radical changes to Queensland’s Animal Care and Protection Act 2001. Katter’s Australian Party MPs, who were only made aware of plans through the media, said...