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...
The Palaszczuk Government’s deficient response to North Queensland’s relentless youth crime crisis is being predicated on misleading facts and data about the severity of the situation, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have warned. KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said since 2015 the cherry-picking of data...
Following lobbying to the State Government, Member for Traeger Robbie Katter is encouraging a decision to re-purpose funding towards replacing old and unreliable bores in the small outback town of Kynuna. In January this year, Mr Katter wrote to Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development,...
Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter used Parliament last week to move a motion demanding governments stop costing Queenslanders jobs and economic opportunities by allowing private industry to decide on energy supply. The Private Member’s Motion moved that the Queensland Government uphold control...