QLD FAMILIES DEVASTATED BY TAXI LICENCE LOSSES

14 October 2021 Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) MPs are calling on Transport Minister Mark Bailey to attend a court-ordered mediation and negotiate a fair compensation package for devastated Queensland taxi licence owners. KAP Leader Robbie Katter, speaking from Parliament House said, “Mum-and-Dad Queensland small-business owners have lost everything – there are so many stories of […] READ MORE

DR RIDD A BEACON OF HOPE FOR FREE SPEECH: KAP

13 October 2021   A dark cloud hangs over the future of academic freedom of speech in Australia following the High Court’s ruling today against Great Barrier Reef expert Dr Peter Ridd, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said. The KAP which – alongside a variety of other supporters from across the country – have stood […] READ MORE

State Government holds the keys to rural housing crisis fix

13 October 2021 MEMBER for Hinchinbrook Nick Dametto will request a meeting with Treasurer Cameron Dick to call for an amendment to the First Home Owners’ Grant Policy that would make buying a home in regional Queensland more attractive. Last week community leaders stated Western Queensland is struggling to grow regional centres due to the […] READ MORE

NQ OUTRAGED AS REGIONAL QLDERS EXCLUDED FROM TRIAL

7 October 2021 Regional Queenslanders have been devastatingly locked out of the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s home quarantine trial in what has been described by Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto as “lazy policy”. Despite more than 3,000 Queenslanders currently being stranded outside their home state, many of whom are from North and regional Queensland, the Government has limited its […] READ MORE

STATEMENT FROM NICK DAMETTO MP

6 October 2021 North Queensland is approaching the status of a failed state, and Townsville is front and centre of this crisis. Our city is excelling in so many aspects but youth crime continues to erode at our way of life while the Palaszczuk Labor Government writes these kids a hall pass. With up to […] READ MORE

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