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May
Bob Katter's book released Tuesday 15th May
An Incredible Race of People is a highly personal and at times challenging investigation of our politics and industry over many decades: heroes are applauded and pretenders dismissed, urgent issues are identified and solutions tabled. In the tradition of the greatest statesmen, Bob Katter Jr urges us to consider, discuss, and act to ensure Australia's future remains bright.
May
Katter says CopperString funding 'good news'
ABC, Chrissy Arthur and Stephen Smiley
North Queensland federal MP Bob Katter says the federal Budget has preserved funding for a major energy project in the region.
Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan unveiled the Budget last night, announcing billions of dollars in savings to return the budget to a modest surplus of $1.5 billion in 2012-13.
Mr Katter says federal funding for the CopperString project in Queensland's north and north-west is still on the table, even though the developers declared it commercially unviable earlier this year.
Apr
KAP to march in Labour day parade
INALA BRANCH Labour Day March
We would like to invite all the representatives and members of Katter’s AUSTRALIAN Party, to march with us in the Brisbane Labour Day Parade on Monday 7 May 2012.
The march will commence at 10am, so please be at the assembly point before 9.30am.
We would suggest that you wear a KAP shirt.
The more people marching the bigger message we will send to the working men and women of Queensland; “They have a choice”.
Apr
Rob Katter to lead father's party in Qld
AAP, Nine MSN
The son of maverick federal MP Bob Katter will lead his father's party in Queensland.
Rob Katter won the seat of Mount Isa at last month's state election to become one of two Katter's Australian Party (KAP) MPs in Queensland.
Liberal National Party defector Shane Knuth retained his seat of Dalrymple to become KAP's second MP.
Apr
Should agriculture reverse 30 years of dereguation?
ABC Country Hour, Neroli Roocke
Over the past three decades statutory marketing authorities across a range of industries have been phased out, but there are now calls for regulation to return.
Should the future of Australian agriculture involve a return to mechanisms such as single desk wheat marketing, a reserve price scheme for wool and guaranteed farm gate prices for milk?
The new player on the political scene, Katter's Australian Party believes so.
Apr
Katter wants local train jobs
Fraser Coast Chronicle
FEDERAL MP Bob Katter continues to throw his weight behind Fraser Coast jobs as he called on the new LNP State Government to cancel overseas train-manufacturing government contracts and instead hand them to Downer EDi's Maryborough plant
Apr
Labor's loss is Katter Party's gain
Laura Tingle, Australian Financial Review
Bob Katter’s Australian Party could command a majority with the Coalition in the Senate if the results of the catastrophic Queensland state election were repeated federally.
...If the Queensland result were replicated in voting for the Senate, Mr Black says Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) could win four seats from Labor and another from the Australian Greens.
Apr
Media's soft treatment of Brown opens door to the little Greens men
Gerard Henderson, Sydney Morning Herald
Imagine the media reaction if the atheist Julia Gillard or the Christian Tony Abbott raised the possibility, in a major address, of extraterrestrial life on one or more planets beyond Earth. At the very least, they would have been ridiculed. There may even have been calls for a retirement on medical grounds.
Yet this is what the Greens leader, Senator Bob Brown, did when delivering the third annual Green Oration in the Hobart Town Hall on Friday, March 23.
Early in his speech to those he called "Fellow Earthians", Brown raised the issue, "why has no one from elsewhere in the cosmos contacted us?" After claiming that "surely some people-like animals have evolved elsewhere", he asked: "Why aren't the intergalactic phones ringing?"
Mar
Katter a 'third force' in QLD
Get Regional
A Charles Sturt University (CSU) expert believes Bob Katter’s Australia Party is now a third force in Queensland politics with the Liberal National Party’s (LNP) landslide victory in last weekend’s election.
Political commentator, Dr Troy Whitford, is of the opinion that Katter’s party will fair better with an LNP government.
“Independents, One Nation and other more conservative parties always do better when conservative voters are rebelling against a conservative government,” Dr Whitford said.
Mar
Katter's Australian Party rebels vow to mount bid for federal seats
Michael Madigan, Courier Mail
QUEENSLAND'S youngest political party is already eyeing off federal seats after declaring it was here to stay.
Bob Katter's Australian Party has won two seats in the Queensland Parliament - Mount Isa and Dalrymple - and could also snare Thuringowa near Townsville.
