Race clubs across the Traeger electorate have received significant cash injections from the State Government's Country Racing Program Funding as 2022 comes to an end. Amongst the recipients are Julia Creek Turf Club Inc, being allocated $30,000 to facilitate a stable flood mitigation analysis and design,...
Katter’s Australian Party is flagging a proposal incentivising Year 12 students to take up the forgotten “wet” trades of bricklaying, concreting and scaffolding in a transitional schedule strategically-timed with the winter weather. In response to predictions that North Queensland would face an alarming lack of willing...
The “dam-phobic” and “anti-development” Palaszczuk Labor Government has surprised no one today with its announcement that it will not build the Bradfield Scheme, or any of its revised versions, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said. KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said, after close to...
The $4.5 billion extra royalties windfall that will be paid to the Queensland Government this financial year must be solely invested in regional Queensland, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs have said. KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said the additional cash netted in Labor’s controversial...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter says an ANZ service’s decision to cancel phone banking to the Australian shooting sector is born out of ignorance and recklessly virtue-signalling on an issue that contributes nothing to public safety. Earlier this week, media reported that...
The RSPCA would be stripped of its law enforcement and prosecutorial powers under amendments to be pursued today by Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs in the Queensland Parliament. Through amendments to Labor’s Animal Care and Protection Amendment Bill 2022, the KAP will push for all animal...
Despite heady estimates of a peak 45,000 renewable energy jobs across Australia by the mid-2020s, the sector is still only delivering Queenslanders a few hundred full-time jobs. Answering a Question on Notice in Queensland Parliament, the Minister for Energy, Renewables and Hydrogen admitted to Katter’s Australian...
The updated Atkinson Report into youth crime in Queensland was released late last night and proves to Queenslanders what we have known all along. Youth offenders are being further criminalised by a broken youth justice system that fails on all fronts – it is neither protecting...
The North West region can still hold high hopes for the continued progression of the Hughenden Irrigation Project (HIPCo) following recent comments made by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. During the most recent parliamentary sitting, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter aimed his question, during...
There will be no “green” in Queensland’s hydrogen future if the Palaszczuk and Albanese Labor Governments do not settle on a start-date for the construction of game-changing CopperString 2.0 project, Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said. Mr Katter’s warning follows Premier...