KAP to move stronger biofuels laws in face of global fuel crisis

18th March 2022 Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has flagged his plans to strengthen the State’s ethanol mandate, calling the current legislation a “wet lettuce leaf” that enables global oil companies to laugh all the way to the bank at the expense of Queenslanders. Currently E10 fuel in Queensland […] READ MORE

FHOG policy change needed as housing issues bite: KAP

18th March 2022 Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has reiterated his calls to expand the First Home Owners Grant following reports that housing has been identified as the biggest infrastructure problem across regional Australia. Under Mr Dametto’s proposed amendments to the Act, first home owners would be able the […] READ MORE

KAP, PHON AND CALLIDE MP STAND IN SUPPORT OF FARMERS

16th March 2022 Queensland’s major party MPs have shown their loyalties no longer lie with farmers, with Labor and the LNP now favouring a green ideology and foreign powers that seek to exploit the narrative surrounding our Great Barrier Reef. Debate resumed last night on Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto’s […] READ MORE

Dametto heads back to the cane fields ahead of reef regs vote

11th March 2022 With a vote on his Environmental and Other Legislation (Reversal of Great Barrier Reef Protection Measures) Amendment Bill 2021 approaching, Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has this week gone back to the grassroots reasons behind the bill. On Thursday Mr Dametto held an on-farm meeting with […] READ MORE

All systems go for One Mile Creek emergency dredging

9th March 2022 Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto is relieved for Cardwell’s residents following Mayor Mark Nolan’s announcement that the Council has received correspondence from the Deputy Prime Minister stating the Commonwealth is looking to release the $1.5m funding for the One Mile Creek emergency dredging project. The One […] READ MORE

Cop’s vax mandate must go: Dametto

8th March 2022 Katter’s Australian Party MPs have called for Police Minister Mark Ryan and Commissioner Katarina Carroll to follow South Australia’s lead and immediately wind-back the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for police officers and their colleagues. Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto commended the SA Government on the move and said […] READ MORE

It’s time to end the pandemic not extend it

3rd March 2022 Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP, Nick Dametto is urging Queenslanders to provide submissions for the Public Health and Other Legislation (Extension of Expiring Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022. On 22 February 2022, the Minister for Health and Ambulance Services introduced the Public Health and Other Legislation (Extension of Expiring […] READ MORE

Dametto demands YJ action as Townsville crisis continues

25th February 2022 As the Townsville crime crisis reaches boiling point, Katter’s Australian Party Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has this week asked the Youth Justice Minister to commit her support to an investigation into Queensland youth detention centres. On Thursday, the day after youth offenders in stolen vehicles terrorised a junior soccer […] READ MORE

Major parties throw farmers out to sea on reef regs

24th February 2022 Labor and the LNP appear set to vote together against Katter’s Australian Party’s Reef Regulations Reversal Bill, in a move that KAP Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto would be a “dark moment in history” for Queensland farmers. Mr Dametto’s Environmental and Other Legislation (Reversal of Great Barrier Reef Protection Measures) […] READ MORE

State drags feet with Wallaman Falls visitor facilities upgrade

23rd February 2022   Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) Deputy Leader and Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has slammed the State Government for its delay with visitor infrastructure upgrades at Australia’s highest single-drop waterfall, Wallaman Falls. In the Queensland Budget 2020-2021, the Townsville region was allocated $600,000 in 21/22 out of $2m total spend to upgrade visitor […] READ MORE