Government leaves North Queensland up Buy Back creek without a paddle

  North Queensland property owners who are frequently affected by flooding have been ignored by the State Government as they fail to extend the Voluntary Home Buy Back Program to include North Queensland. Deputy Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto said his calls on the State and Federal Governments […] READ MORE

COLLECTIVE CALLS GROW TO SEND KID CRIMS BUSH

Queensland councils have collectively endorsed a new model of detention that would see young criminals sent to remote properties to serve out their sentences and engage in therapeutic and intense “bush therapy. The approach, commonly referred to as Relocation Sentencing, has long been touted by North Queensland-based Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs as “circuit-breaker solution” […] READ MORE

Dametto Introduces Biofuel Bill

13 October 2022 Cheaper fuel, lower emissions, enhancing Australia’s fuel security and underpinning industry would be just some of the benefits of the Katter’s Australian Party’s Liquid Fuel Supply (Minimum Biobased Petrol Content) Amendment Bill 2022 according to Deputy Leader of the KAP and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto. The Private Members Bill, which was introduced […] READ MORE

Happy Gathering – Maraka Festival

12 October 2022   Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto has welcomed the highly anticipated return of the Maraka Festival in 2022. Maraka provides a week of festivities that coincides with the sugarcane harvest and brings together schools, businesses and community groups within the region. This year’s festival continues with tradition and has attracted five Maraka Queen […] READ MORE

Dametto to Introduce Biofuel Bill

10 October 2022   More clean, “green” fuel would be produced in Australia if Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto gets his way, as he plans to introduce his Liquid Fuel Supply (Minimum Biobased Petrol Content) Amendment Bill 2022 into the Queensland Parliament this week. The Private Members Bill aims to […] READ MORE

“INSANE” PALASZCZUK GOVT NEEDS NEW DETENTION DIRECTION

The Palaszczuk Labor Government must look at alternate solutions to the youth crime crisis eroding life in North Queensland instead of wasting $500 million of taxpayer monies on repeated mistakes, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said. Yesterday, during a visit to North Queensland, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk revealed that her Government’s response to youth crime was […] READ MORE

Address Root Cause of Sick Health System

  Pressure on Queensland’s public health system – including ambulance ramping, bed blockages and staff shortages, could be reduced if the Palaszczuk Labor Government funded computed tomography (CT) scanners in all district hospitals, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Leader Robbie Katter has said. None of the Townsville region’s district hospitals, Charters Towers, Ingham and Ayr, currently […] READ MORE

Dametto ‘wades-in’ on boating facilities’ future.

  With the number of recreational boaties rapidly growing in Queensland, Deputy Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto is urging North Queensland boat owners to have their say on Hinchinbrooks’s recreational boating facilities. The Hinchinbrook MP said with more than 10,000 additional recreational vessels registered in Queensland over the last […] READ MORE

95 per cent re-offending rate, offensive: Dametto.

21/09/2022   Deputy Leader of the Katter’s Australian Party and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto is disgusted at the Palaszczuk Government for its failure to address recidivist youth offending after extraordinary figures were released in a response to a question on notice.[1] Data shows that 95 per cent of offenders detained at Cleveland Youth Detention Centre […] READ MORE

Vessel Tracking Report tracks well overdue: Dametto

It’s been one blow after the other for the Queensland commercial fishing industry, with the Government indicating it would not support the Katter’s Australian Party’s country of origin seafood labelling bill, Minister Furner’s reduction of the Spanish Mackerel quotas and now commercial fishers are being left in the dark as they await the overdue results […] READ MORE