2023-24 State Budget lacks middle ground

15 June 2023 Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has labelled the 2023-24 Queensland Budget as “hit and miss” when it comes to cost-of-living relief and investment in the regions. Mr Dametto said that although funding was delivered for some big-ticket items at a state level, Hinchinbrook missed out on […] READ MORE

Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme increases leave Queenslanders high and dry

14 July 2023 Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto states the 2023-2024 State Budget leaves patients high and dry following funding increases to the Patient Travel Subsidy Scheme (PTSS) rates. The Palaszczuk Government claims that the 2023-2024 Budget delivered a record health budget with $70.3 million over four years being […] READ MORE

State budget fails to deliver CT scanner for Ingham Hospital

14 June 2023 Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto is extremely disappointed that funding for a computed tomography (CT) scanner for Ingham Hospital was neglected in the 2023-2024 State Budget. The Hinchinbrook MP said following his recent Question Without Notice to the newly appointed Health Minister he was feeling positive […] READ MORE

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY LOST AS LABOR SQUANDERS REGIONAL RICHES

14 June 2023 North and regional Queenslanders have been left feeling neglected as the State Government opts to have its cake and eat it too, allocating rich coal royalties to what is more a “climate change Budget” than one designed to improve the lives and futures of all Queenslanders. While the State Budget boasted grand […] READ MORE

Dametto welcomes the 2023 sugar cane crushing season

12 June 2023 Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto is thrilled to welcome the 2023 sugar cane crushing season. Known for its thriving sugar industry, Ingham plays a crucial role in supplying the nation with high-quality sugar cane products, and the start of the crushing season is always an exciting time […] READ MORE

Statistics won’t support phasing out cheques in rural, regional Australia

  8 June 2023 Phasing out cheques will be detrimental to rural and regional transactions and their respective local economies, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) is warning. It comes as the Federal Treasurer on Wednesday announced a complete phasing out of cheques by 2030.[1] Federal Kennedy MP Bob Katter and KAP Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP […] READ MORE

KAP warns against “Budget for Brisbane” 

7 June 2023  Billions of dollars will be poured in the State’s coffers by coal and mining royalties in the coming financial year, prompting Katter’s Australian Party KAP MPs to call on all rural and regional politicians to back their communities before Brisbane ahead of next week’s Queensland State Budget. The 2023-24 Budget will be […] READ MORE

Labor Unites to Cripple Queensland’s Wild Caught Seafood Industry

7 June 2023 A decision by the State and Federal Labor Governments to reduce commercial fishing activities in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has sent shockwaves throughout the industry with plans to ban all gillnet fishing by mid-2027. CEO of the Queensland Seafood Industry Association (‘QSIA’), David Bobbermen, said the bans – to take […] READ MORE

Port Hinchinbrook – Right Project, Wrong Time

7 June 2023 The normalisation of Port Hinchinbrook at Cardwell continues however, after a lengthy due diligence process the marina property and freehold land which is the property of Passage Holdings Limited will remain under the control of liquidators after Queensland development company, Consolidated Properties Group, made the commercial decision to not enter into a […] READ MORE

State Government misses the mark on housing crisis

2 June 2023 A recent survey conducted by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ) showed that 80 per cent of landlords were considering selling their investment properties due to the threat of further rent reforms by the State Labor Government. In October 2021, the Palaszczuk Government passed Stage 1 of the rental law reforms […] READ MORE