PATIENTS FORCED TO TRAVEL FOR DIALYSIS AS GOVERNMENT LEAVES LOCAL RENAL CHAIRS UNUSED

Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and Member for Traeger has called for an urgent expansion of the renal dialysis service in Charters Towers, arguing that local patients should not have to endure exhausting travel to Townsville for treatment when the infrastructure already exists in their own community.

Mr Katter said one of his proudest achievements has been working alongside the Charters Towers community and Townsville Hospital and Health Services to establish the local 4-chair dialysis service. He said while the service has been lifesaving for many, there is still more to be done.

PEOPLE POWER PAVES WAY FOR HANN FUNDING WIN

Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) is pleased to confirm that the Federal Government has allocated $70 million in the Federal Budget to complete the sealing of the final 10.8km of the Kennedy Development Road (the Hann Highway).

KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said the milestone achievement underscored the importance of people power.

He said years of lobbying, particularly by local governments such as the Flinders Shire Council, had led to the win.

KATTERS UNITE, THE GULF WAS BUILT ON BUFFEL, BRAHMAN AND BITUMEN

KAP Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter said the federal government’s consideration of adding buffel grass to the WoNS registry, a move driven by ideologically-motivated environmentalists, was extremely misguided. 

“These people are fools – they can’t be bothered to take consequential action on the myriad of extremely serious weeds and pests that are destroying Australia’s native ecosystem, and yet they want to pursue this,” he said. 

BRISBANE 2032 WILL BASTARDISE QLD ECONOMY: KATTER

Queensland’s regions will be bled dry and the State’s already-struggling economy could cross the Rubicon as a result of the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said.
Speaking in response to the Crisafulli LNP Government’s Olympic Plan, unveiled yesterday, Mr Katter said the Premier’s announcement that Queensland would build three stadiums within a 3km stadium in inner-city Brisbane for the Games was deeply concerning.

“ECONOMIC EMERGENCY” PROMPTS SOS CALLS FOR NW

A “state of economic emergency” has been declared in the North West by a deeply concerned Traeger MP Robbie Katter, who said the region would collapse if all levels of government don’t urgently move to encourage investment and provide better deals when it comes to power, roads and rail.

Mr Katter, in an address to the Queensland Parliament last week, said a myriad of mine closures in the region in recent months were directly the result of governmental neglect of the region.

KATTER RAISES ALARM OVER COMPROMISED POWERLINK BOARD

Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has today made public growing community concerns that Powerlink Board Chair, Kathy Hirschfeld, in her capacity as board member and shareholder of Central Petroleum, may have a conflict of interest in relation to decisions regarding the CopperString Project.

Mr Katter is calling for the Government to remove Ms Hirschfeld from the Powerlink Board and the CopperString delivery committee while her role in the delivery of the CopperString project and potential conflict of interest is fully investigated.

INTERVENTION CALL AS ANOTHER MINER BITES THE DUST

A fourth mining company has fallen victim to what Katter’s Australian Party Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has described as the “state-sanctioned economic shackles” eroding the future of the North West, prompting calls for urgent intervention by the Crisafulli LNP Government.
In addition to re-iterating his calls for a fast-tracking of the CopperString project, so to drive down industrial power prices, Mr Katter is also demanding an immediate restructure of way the government manages the Mount Isa to Townsville Rail Line.

“SACK THEM”: KATTER CALLS FOR ACTION OVER COPPERSTRING CRISIS

Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has launched a broadside attack on Powerlink and the APA Group, raising concerns the two are collaborating in an attempt to kill the revolutionary CopperString Project and subsequently deny the people of North Queensland their economic potential.

A furious Mr Katter is calling for the Powerlink CEO and Board to be sacked immediately for their financial mismanagement, and recent politicisiation, of the project[1].

ALBO WARNED REX RESCUE IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER

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.

NORTH AT THE MERCY OF MOTHER NATURE WITHOUT BRADFIELD: KAP

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.