WIN FOR RURAL RENAL PATIENTS AS EXTRA SESSIONS CONFIRMED

Exactly seven months to the day after Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter called on the Health Minister to expand renal dialysis services in Charters Towers, health executives have confirmed that the sessions will double in January 2026.

The expansion in capacity from three to six sessions per week would mean that four elderly Charters Towers patients who currently travelled to Townsville three times a week for dialysis would no longer have to make the exhausting three-hour round trip.

COUNCILS TELL CANBERRA TO BACK OFF: KATTER BACKS STAND TO PROTECT BUFFEL GRASS

Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, has commended Queensland councils for taking a strong stand against the Federal Government’s misguided efforts to label Buffel Grass as a weed of national significance, describing the proposal as another example of city-based decision-making gone mad.

RESUSCITATED REX MUST DELIVER SERVICE, NOT SAME OLD FAILURES

Gulf and North West deserve service, not continued failures, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said.

Mr Katter reiterated his call for genuine reform to air transport services in the region, noting that the fleet that the new American owners have acquired is not fit for purpose in the Gulf.

“We have seen too many operators and owners come and go, and it’s remote and rural Queenslanders who suffer the most when services abruptly stop or just don’t arrive as scheduled,” the Member for Traeger said.

VOICE TO QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT BY STEALTH: KATTER CALLS OUT ACCORD

Queenslanders voted decisively against more bureaucracy for a ‘Voice’, yet the Government seems determined to bring it in anyway, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said. 

“While crime continues to run rampant, and the cost of living continues to blow out, the Government is busy setting up more bureaucracy to do what a good Member of Parliament should be doing,” Mr Katter said.  

POWERLINK INCOMPETANCE, BUREAUCRATIC BRICK-WALLS, GET COPPERSTRING BUILT!

The Treasurer Friday confirmed that it’s bureaucrats and PowerLink’s incompetence that will see yet more delays for CopperString, the Member for Traeger and Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP), Robbie Katter has said.

“The utter incompetence of PowerLink to need yet more Federal approvals, taking up to more than two years, is mind blowing, Mr Katter said.

YOU CAN’T RIDE TWO HORSES AT ONCE! KATTER CALLS OUT LNP DECEPTION ON EMISSIONS

The LNP and the Treasurer are trying to mislead Queenslanders, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter has said.

“The government has seen how toxic a blind, ideological pursuit of emissions reduction is, and has tried to con Queenslanders by scrapping renewables targets – without walking away from emissions targets!” Mr Katter said.

“Scrapping renewable targets and helping CopperString are good things, and we congratulate them for that, but the government can’t get away with only doing half the job.

SURVIVED THE FIRST HALF – MORE NEEDED – COPPER SMELTER PACKAGE A START

News that the Mount Isa Copper Smelter and Townsville Refinery will remain operating is good news, but the hard work is still to come, the Member for Traeger and Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP), Robbie Katter has said from his home city of Mount Isa.

“This is a start and it’s at least reassuring us that our critical sovereign capability needs to be preserved,” Mr Katter said.

FLOODS DON’T WAIT – KATTER CALLS FOR FASTER FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM UPGRADES

Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, has criticised the slow rollout of the National Flood Warning Infrastructure Network (FWIN) program, warning that Charters Towers and other North West communities are being left exposed.

Mr Katter said he welcomed the Federal Government’s $236 million investment to improve and integrate rain and river gauges, and the decision to centralise responsibility for the system through the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).

16 BILLION REASONS TO REFORM SMELTER, BUILD COPPERSTRING

The Mount Isa Copper Smelter remains hanging in the balance, with the Queensland government seeming to tacitly sit on the sidelines, the Member for Traeger and Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party, Robbie Katter has said.

“It really worries me that all we are seeing and hearing is the Government in Queensland saying, ‘Glencore should be good citizens because Mount Isa has been good to Glencore’,” Mr Katter said.

“That just doesn’t cut it,” he said.

BRISBANE BUBBLE SET TO GET BIGGER UNDER LNP

Despite winning government in the regions, the LNP are proposing to make the Brisbane bubble even bigger by cutting a seat in North Queensland!  Robbie Katter, the Leader of Katter’s Australian Party and Member for Traeger has said, reviewing submissions to the Queensland Redistribution Commission (QRC) review into electorate boundaries.

“Queenslanders outside of the south east are already strangled by the one size fits all approach from Brisbane, so expanding the number of seats down there will only further dilute the voice of the rest of the state,” he said.