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...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter is backing a program sending young, troubled Indigenous boxers from Mount Isa to a City vs Bush tournament in Brisbane as a meaningful circuit-breaker against spiralling youth crime. Derricks Boxing in Mount Isa, which took troubled youths...
Critical Gulf roads that support hundreds of millions of dollars annually are now unusable most of the year as Government coffers fill Brisbane’s $7.1 billion Cross River Rail “sinkhole” ahead of its opening in 2025. Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said Queensland’s...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has used a media conference in Cairns this morning to heighten calls to deploy Australian Defence Force (ADF) troops to the mammoth flood clean-up in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Mr Katter’s formal request for assistance on behalf...