Katter’s Australian Party MPs have slammed the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s “callous” decision to pour regional coal royalties into funding their Brisbane Olympics dream instead of adequately addressing the deficits of the Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme (PTSS). The State Government claimed last week that coal royalties, worth...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has called for a radical rethink of Queensland’s future budgets and the introduction of a Western Australia-styled “Royalties for Regions” program. The regional MP said he would push for the program to ensure regions responsible for generating...
Not even one month after an uncontrolled fire on Government land triggered Traeger MP Robbie Katter to request an inquiry into the State Government’s aggressive take-up of land without properly resourcing it, several more blazes have broken out. Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Member for Traeger...
The news that the Palaszczuk Labor Government will increase the Living Away From Home Allowances Scheme (LAFHAS), up $4,000 in 2024, has been welcomed by outback politician Robbie Katter. But the Traeger MP, who leads Katter’s Australian Party (KAP), said more still needed to be done...
Billions of dollars will be poured in the State’s coffers by coal and mining royalties in the coming financial year, prompting Katter’s Australian Party KAP MPs to call on all rural and regional politicians to back their communities before Brisbane ahead of next week’s Queensland...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter says the “marathon” bureaucracy battle being fought to build the mid-west’s Hughenden Irrigation Project (HIPCo) has been recently buoyed by the Albanese Federal Government’s re-commitment to its $170 million funding pledge. Mr Katter said it was encouraging...
The recent announcement of the Federal Budget included some amendments to the Home Guarantee Scheme, and other policies were announced affecting home buyers and owners, however, the net still needs to be cast wider. That's according to Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter...
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...