Member for Dalrymple Shane Knuth has welcomed the Government's decision to back farmers shooting flying fox scouts but expressed great disappointment that this did not include the culling of flying foxes that plague residential areas.

Mr. Knuth said he agrees farmers need to protect their crops.

'The reality is the Government is trying to deliver a watered-down version of Katter's Australian Party policy.

Katter’s Australian Party State Leader Rob Katter has backed calls for a cruise ship terminal on the Gold Coast proposed by newly elected Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate’s. The cruise ship terminal was one of the key commitments of KAP prior to the recent election, aimed at boosting tourism on the Gold Coast and across Queensland.

KATTER’S Australian Party federal leader Bob Katter has branded the LNP’s plan to buy back commercial fishing licences as another nail in Australia’s food security coffin.

Mr Katter said he understood why commercial fishermen would take the offer because the greenie monster had made it impossible to make a living by imposing too many rules and regulations.

But he said the real tragedy was that it was rapidly taking us up the path of being a net importer of seafood.

KATTER’S Australian Party federal leader Bob Katter and state leader Rob Katter have thrown their support behind the Transport Workers Union and its bid to ensure 1st Fleet workers made redundant are paid entitlements.

Mt Isa member Rob Katter said this issue was as relevant in Queensland as it is anywhere else.

"Smaller private enterprise is being swallowed up by larger corporations and this is inadvertently decimating the livelihood of many workers on the ground," he said.

Mr Katter said there was merit in the union’s belief that the company’s demise, which had traded since 1988, was a warning sign about the dangers of giving too much power to the major supermarket chains.

Rob Katter has been endorsed as the State Leader of Katter’s Australian Party and Shane Knuth has been endorsed as the Parliamentary Leader.

Together, the two have an enormous workload as they prepare to be sworn into the 54th Queensland Parliament.

“The Management Committee of Katter’s Australian Party is confident that Rob and Shane will do an outstanding job of representing the party and building the organisation to ensure future success and longevity,” President Rowell Walton said. 

Member for Dalrymple Shane Knuth has said he is a bit cynical about yesterdays announcement by Premier Campbell Newman that the State Government will freeze electricity prices but still allow the carbon tax to be directly passed to Queenslanders.