A frustrated Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter will write to Queensland Child Safety Minister Craig Crawford, as well as the Parliament’s bipartisan Community Services and Safety Committee, calling for a sweeping inquiry into the State’s broken “resi-care” program. Mr Katter said...
North Queensland’s tourism season is well underway, but small local businesses are reporting one of the slowest starts in years with visitors merely trickling through the doors. The continuous rising cost of living combined with the prospect of international travel following COVID-19 and incorrect information regarding...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter is elevating community demand for a new hospital in Charters Towers by sponsoring a petition launched by Charters Towers Regional Council. The petition, posted to the Queensland Parliament website and distributed locally, had already gathered 648...
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...