Nationalising failed Rex Airlines, plagued with an ageing fleet off Saab 340B turboprops that have significant limitation in hot north Australian conditions, is flogging a dead horse, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs have said.

KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said a straight buy-out, amounting to a golden handshake for an airline that has underperformed over the last decade, would not represent value for money for Australian taxpayers.

The visionary Bradfield Scheme – which by design diverts excess floodwaters from the upper Tully, Herbert and Burdekin river systems – could have ameliorated the devastating 2025 North Queensland floods had it been built, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.

Mr Katter said the failure of successive state and federal governments over the last century to realise the scheme, as well as its more modern, revised version, had an immeasurable impact on the North’s economy as well as its broader ability to weather-proof the region.

A strategic “inland highway” built by the US Army during World War II is the key to keeping North Queensland connected during future flood events, Katter’s Australian MPs have said.

Responding to the recent floods that have caused devastation across the coast and catastrophically damaged the Bruce Highway at Ollera Creek, KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said the Hann Highway needed to be finished as a matter of urgency.

North Queensland leaders have welcomed the LNP Crisafulli Government’s most recent reaffirmation of its plans to progress the multi-billion dollar CopperString project, the largest ever economic development project in the region.

Last week, Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki delivered his Mid-year Budget Review, re-affirming the LNP’s iron-clad commitment to completing the build of 840km-long electricity transmission line from Mount to Townsville.

Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs have joined the growing chorus of Queenslanders concerned that the State’s Weapons Licencing Branch (WLB) is presiding over a biosecurity catastrophe that could have long-standing consequences.

Last week the Shooter’s Union, joined by AgForce Queensland, signalled the alarm that landholders attempting to control rampant feral pest populations were being hamstrung by Brisbane-based civil servants denying them access to essential equipment.

The negotiating efforts undertaken by Mount Isa City Council and myself, as the Member for Traeger, in relation to the Mount Isa Rodeo have always been focused on returning the iconic event back to the local community.

This is not to discredit the situation of creditors, but to make clear that there is a much bigger picture at stake in regard to the event’s future and the protection of its legacy for years to come.

The Government’s inaction to upgrade the Kennedy Development Highway (Hann Highway) is risking lives and hindering progress in agriculture, freight and tourism, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter said.

The bushfire carnage being wrought on wealthy and “woke” Los Angeles is as ironic as it is devastating.

There’s no known cause yet but the series of fires, spurred on by high winds, dry conditions and uncontrolled forest fuel loads, has truly devastated California.

Finding efficiencies and enhancing opportunities across key regional transport networks like the
Mount Isa to Townsville corridor has been re-affirmed as one of the major priorities of KAP Leader
and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter in 2025.

Queensland’s commercial fishing industry had a chance to be saved from ideologically driven decimation on Tuesday, with the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) disallowance motion to reverse Labor’s gillnet bans in the Gulf of Carpentaria being debated in Parliament.