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KAP in the media this week
KAP in the media this week
Read about Katter’s Australian Party’s media mentions and moments from this week, including from radio, newspaper and more.
KAP IN THE MEDIA THIS WEEK
Monday 9th July 2018
Katter and Knuth welcome approval – Innisfail Advocate
MISSION BEACH commercial boat operators have sought the help of Member for Hill Shane Knuth to address issues of access surrounding the Clump Point boat ramp. Mr Knuth met with the Commercial Boat Operators of Mission Beach group at the boat ramp on Wednesday to hear how the closure will affect their businesses.
A shot in the arm for Mission Beach – Innisfail Advocate
AFTER years of fighting for better marine facilities at Mission Beach, the head of a local boating association says the go ahead for the Clump Point Boating Infrastructure Project is a “bloody ripper”. Mission Beach Boating Association president Peter Heywood said the project could be the shot in the arm that Mission Beach needed to get going again.
Katter: LNG falling short – Gladstone Observer
THE state leader of Katter’s Australian Party, Robbie Katter, has reiterated his calls for the State Government to establish a gas reserve policy. Petroleum royalties, which include CSG revenue, came to $98 million in 2016-17, and are estimated to have hit $188 million this past financial year.
New law ‘could be sharia shield’ – The Australian / (online)
Conservative senator Fraser Anning has warned a push from cabinet minister Dan Tehan for a religious discrimination act could provide a “shield to Islamic extremists and advocates of sharia law”. Senator Anning, a One Nation defector who is now a member of Katter’s Australia Party, said the proposal to enshrine religious freedoms in law could have unintended consequences.
Croc cull laws divide far north – Sunday Mail Brisbane, Brisbane Courier Mail (online)
Test case to protect predator CROC catcher Errol Copley is at the centre of a landmark legal test case in a crackdown on crocodile culling in north Queensland. As estimates put Queensland’s wild crocodile populationas high as 80,000, officials want to deter any vigilante croc hunters targetingthe protected predator. Cape York identity and
commercial fisherman Mr Copley, 69, was fined $500 after he caught a 3m saltie on a baited mackerel hook he’d leftin waters behind his Deeral tropical fruit farm.
Queensland still paying the price for bad LNG deals – Media Releases
6 July 2018 State leader of the KAP and Member for Traeger, Robbie Katter, says recent export earnings and royalty figures show the LNG industry is still falling short of the contribution promised to the people of Queensland.
LETTERS
People want croc cull – Weekend Post
SO, the people have spoken – 77 per cent in favour of a crocodile cull and these are locals. Yes, people who live in the area and know what it is like to have our lifestyle restricted by the increasing numbers of these killers and yet our elected representatives tell us no.
RADIO
Radio 4KZ, , Innisfail, 12:08 Rural Northern News at 12:08
Farmers are raising concerns about wild dogs after one land owner lost around 17 calfs in the last two months. Shane Knuth, KAP Member for Hill says something needs to be done.
Radio 4KZ, , Innisfail, 08:00 Rural Northern News at 07:59
[Department] Transport and Main Road crews are conducting emergency works to repair a section of roads in the Tablelands after a routine reseal work went wrong last week. The section of Millaa Millaa-Malanda Rd near Tarzali has been a source of problems for motorists. Shane Knuth, Member for Hill, says the problems have been caused by the heat melting the tarmac and creating a sticky substance that affects tires.
Tuesday 10th July 2018
Bai urges people to respect Indigenous culture – Koori Mail
MURRAY Island artist Wareed ‘Bai’ QLD Tapau has supported a call by politician Bob Katter asking Australians and overseas visitors not to buy fake Indigenous artefacts. Katter Australia Party Kennedy MP Mr Katter said that if people buy fake, imported ‘Aboriginal style’ art as a souvenir they are destroying jobs, incomes and preventing production of art from First Australians.
We must find a solution – Northern Miner
IT has been confronting in recent weeks to have met with local dialysis patients and their families to discuss the realities of obtaining treatment while living in Charters Towers. All four of the current Charters Towers patients on dialysis are forced each week to travel to Townsville to receive their lifesaving treatment.
Marina upgrade a mixed blessing – Cairns Post
CHARTER fishing operators who survived two cyclones and a global financial crisis fear they could finally be sunk by a marina upgrade they always wanted. Boating facilities at Mission Beach’s Clump Point – little more than a boat ramp, a breakwater and a jetty – have been a sore point among users for years.
Prickly acacia funding issue – North West Star
KAP state leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said understaffing and insufficient government funding is ‘at the heart of Queensland’s worsening prickly acacia problem. The scourge of the introduced weed has been described as a “cancer in our landscape” that could destroy the productivity of local Mitchell grass downs.
Wednesday 11th July 2018
TELEVISION
Seven Cairns, , Cairns, Seven Local News at 18:05
Hill MP Shane Knuth slams the State Government for using southern contractors after bitumen on a Tablelands rd in Tarzali melted last week. He says the Government must look at better solutions to avoid another sticky spot. Residents say flying stones also chipped and smashed windscreens. The Department of Main Roads says two other areas along the Palmerston and Kennedy Hwys are being monitored after the road started to lift.
RADIO
Zinc 666, Mt Isa, 06:30 News at 06:33
The Traeger electorate has two electorate offices, Mt Isa and Charters Towers, after Rob Katter MP was forced to close his Cloncurry office and open one in his hometown when the electorate boundaries were redrawn.
ABC North Queensland, Townsville/Cairns, 12:00 News at 12:03
Shane Knuth, far North Qld Katter Party MP, says the state government should favour local contractors for road projects. The Department of Transport and Main Roads is still fixing the Millaa Millaa Malanda Road after faulty resealing work damaged vehicles. It is also still doing repairs on the Palmerston and Kennedy Highways. Knuth says such jobs should go to local businesses as they are familiar with weather conditions.
4CA AM, Cairns, John Mackenzie at 10:14
Interview with Robbie Katter, Member for Traeger. MacKenzie says the interesting development that the closest what they have got is going to be Rockhampton-based Senator [Matt] Canavan. Katter says it is like the Government now, despite they have been running out with the best intentions. He says they need to focus for free tourism, tackle the welfare of crocodiles, and stimulate the sugar and cattle industries in the North.
Thursday 12th July 2018
Prickly acacia funding issue (North Qld Register, July 12)
KAP state leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter has said understaffing and insufficient government funding is at the heart of Queensland’s worsening prickly acacia problem. Mr Katter called out the disparity in funding between Natural Resource Management groups across the state after learning only seven people were on hand to address the problem in the north west. In Parliament Mr Katter asked the Minister for Natural Resources, Energy and Mines Dr Anthony Lynham why Southern Gulf Catchments, which oversees an area of 216,000km2 and tackles the prickly acacia problem, was staffed by so few people.
Two MPs for Traeger (North West Star, July 12)
THE two members for Traeger caught up last week. Robbie Katter is the member for Traeger most people would be familiar with but there is also Helena Frick, 17, the junior member for Traeger.
LETTERS
Unions silent while Telstra offloads jobs (Townsville Bulletin, July 12)
I WOULD like to add to Debra Gibson’s letter “Labor has lost it’s way” (TB, 10/7). Some decades back the unions in Australia and England were so militant, they did a truckload of damage to the economy of both those countries.
Friday 13th July 2018
Suck it up says KAP (Northern Miner, July 13)
TRAEGER MP Robbie Katter has told the State Government to ‘suck it up’ and pay the cost of reforms outlined in the ACCC’s energy pricing report which was released this week. State KAP Leader, Mr Katter said while it would require the State Government to lose revenue, it would benefit Queenslanders.
Separate state the answer, says KAP (Townsville Bulletin, July 13)
NORTH Queensland should have “at least” six locally-based Senate representatives, says Robbie Katter. The Traeger MP and Katter’s Australia Party state leader said the LNP’s decision to move their candidate Susan McDonald to Townsville did not resolve the “abyss of representation” in the North.
RADIO
ABC Tropical North, Mackay, 06:30 News at 06:31
A Queensland Cross venture states the Qld Government should seize the opportunity in adopting reforms defined in the ACCC report on electricity supply and pricing. MP for Traeger Mark Katter says the ACCC report recommends power companies write the value of their poles and wire business to lessen the electricity prices. He says both sides of politics have used Ergon and Energex as cash-cows.
KAP MP’S IN THE MEDIA
Senator Fraser Anning – Senator for Queensland
- KAP Senator Fraser Anning was mentioned in the following articles:
Excerpt:
“Katter party Senator Fraser Anning accused the ACT’s “socialist” government of making it clear it would move quickly to legalise euthanasia if the restriction was removed.
He described the legalisation of assisted dying as a “direct attack on the sanctity of life” and urged the Senate to reject any move that would enable the “state-sponsored killing of the most vulnerable in society”.However Mr Ramsay told an ACT parliamentary hearing on Thursday the territory government had not actively considered legalising voluntary assisted dying.”
The Queensland pollie wants to arm women with mace, pepper spray and (yes) tasers too so they could having a fighting chance against murderers, rapists and other potential assailants.
Or as a colleague remarked to me this week: “At the moment, as far as safety goes it is not a level playing field if you are a woman alone at night. It is to the advantage of the creeps.”
https://readnow.isentia.com/Temp/125347/979453166.pdf
Senator Anning said yesterday he “strongly agreed” with a push for a royal commission. “Every day Australians are being ripped off by energy companies lining their pockets,” he said. “Good men and women are losing their jobs because firms like BSL in Gladstone can’t afford the cost of energy.”
Conservative senator Fraser Anning has warned a push from cabinet minister Dan Tehan for a religious discrimination act could provide a “shield to Islamic extremists and advocates of sharia law”.
Senator Anning, a One Nation defector who is now a member of Katter’s Australia Party, said the proposal to enshrine religious freedoms in law could have unintended consequences.
He applauded Mr Tehan for recognising minority groups were using “political correctness as a weapon against traditional values” but the Social Services Minister’s solution was problematic.
“More regulation to protect against previous regulation isn’t going to fix the problem,” Senator Anning said. “The real danger is that laws intended to protect those who support traditional Christian values will inadvertently end up providing a shield to Islamic extremists and advocates of sharia law.”
Late last month, Fraser Anning from Katter’s Australian Party argued in the Senate that people must have the right to self-defence following a recent spate of what he called “horrific violent crimes against women”.
He called on the Federal Government to allow the importation of pepper spray and encourage the states to legalise carrying it, saying it provides a non-lethal and easy-to-use means of protection.
Bob Katter – Federal Member for Kennedy
Bob was very busy this week, view the gallery here https://kap.org.au/gallery/ to see what he got up to…
Nick Dametto – State Member for Hinchinbrook
- Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto slammed Labor’s lacklustre State budget, detailed the KAP’s plan to reduce payroll tax and talked up a proposal to expand the first home owner’s grant to established homes in his monthly column in Wednesday’s Innisfail Advocate.
Shane Knuth – State Member for Hill
- The Breakfast Show with Glenn Johns 4KZ, July 5th – Discussing the croc issue and egg harvesting as an income generator. The Malanda Millaa Millaa Road and severe damage to vehicles, Mr Knuth has raised the issue with Minister Mark Bailey to prioritise road upgrade tenders to locals who understand our weather conditions, also discussed the wild dog issue in East Palmerston where farmers are losing a significant amount of calves on a regular basis.
Robbie Katter – State Member for Traeger
- Robbie spoke on 4CA today regarding electricity pricing following Gov report. Also spoke to the ABC radio yesterday on the same issue.
- Northern Miner front page on electricity prices.
- Robbie was in Julia Creek yesterday
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