NQ deserves its fair share: Brisbane 2032 Olympics Petition

1 October 2021 MEMBER for Hinchinbrook, Nick Dametto is calling on the Queensland Government to provide a fair and reasonable response now the Brisbane 2032 Olympics petition now concluded. The petition, launched by Founder of Our Fair Share Colin Dwyer and sponsored by Nick Dametto MP, urges the Parliament to create a nation-building fund to […] READ MORE

PETITIONS WARNS PREMIER TO PURSUE DST AT HER PERIL

29 September 2021 The battles lines have been drawn with the south-east corner once again firing up the age-old daylight savings debate that rouses fire in the belly of all North Queenslanders. The ongoing argument between southern “haves”, who’d like to have an extra daylight hour in the evenings to host picnics in the sunshine, […] READ MORE

LABOR MUST PICK A SIDE ON KID CRIMS DEBATE: KAP

23 September 2021 Townsville’s three Labor MPs must prove their Northern allegiance and put on record their staunch opposition to a radical Greens Party plan to raise the criminal age of responsibility to 14, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said. The Greens Bill, introduced into the Queensland Parliament last week, seeks to outrageously pardon all […] READ MORE

Electorate Offices transformed into “COVID call centres”: Dametto

23 September 2021 HINCHINBROOK MP Nick Dametto has called for temporary staff increases for Queensland Electorate Offices that are struggling to meet the desperate public’s demands for help in navigating Queensland’s border restrictions. The Katter’s Australian Party MP said that latest QLD and NSW border restrictions had transformed his Electorate Office into a COVID hotline. […] READ MORE

DAMETTO DEMANDS GOVT OWN UP TO CRIME CRISIS

15 September 2021 Labor MPs have sought to deny the severity of North Queensland’s crime crisis by shouting down debate and claiming legal concerns during a speech delivered to the Parliament this week by Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto. Mr Dametto, speaking about escalating crime in Townsville and Mackay, made reference to juvenile offenders hunting down […] READ MORE

Labor avoids here and now problems while pushes on with Ingham bypass

14 September 2021 INGHAM small businesses have been left feeling gutted following news the Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Minister will forge ahead with the Ingham bypass, Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto said. TMR has advised it will commence planning and consultation on the planned bypass between Ingham and Cardwell later this year, in a bid […] READ MORE

SCIENCE IS UNSETTLED BUT GROWERS BEAR THE BRUNT

14 September 2021 The draconian reef regulations that could blow a $1 billion-plus hole in the Queensland economy over the next 10 years will have no real impact on the health Great Barrier Reef (GBR), independent scientist Dr Peter Ridd has said. Speaking in support of KAP Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto’s Environmental and Other Legislation […] READ MORE

Dametto rides the bucking bull for charity

13 September 2021 MEMBER for Hinchinbrook Nick Dametto took on the raging bull to raise funds for charity at the annual Ingham Sugar City Rodeo, September 11. The four riders battled it out, with Jonty Collins-Furber topping the leader board with a time of 6.7 seconds, James Stevens came in second place with 4.6 seconds, […] READ MORE

Proposed Aged Care Retention Payment expansion brushed off

10 September 2021 MEMBER for Hinchinbrook Nick Dametto is deeply disappointed with the response from Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care Services, Senator the Hon. Richard Colbeck in reference to extending the Aged Care Workforce Retention Bonus Payment to all aged care workers. Back in July, Mr. Dametto wrote to the Minister requesting to […] READ MORE

NQ commercial fishermen struggle to stay afloat with latest reforms

9 September 2021 HINCHINBROOK MP Nick Dametto has contacted Minister for Fisheries Mark Furner seeking an urgent simplification of the new catch reporting processes for commercial fishermen as well as better support and training for fisheries officers and commercial fisherman. He said this needs to be part of the roll out of the latest Sustainable […] READ MORE