Hidden health emergency at crisis point: KAP

KAP Leader and Member for Traeger Robbie Katter MP has addressed media today calling for a State Government pledge to fund critical dialysis services for rural patients. Despite a $4.8 million investment in Townsville University Hospital’s renal unit earlier this year, which funded an extra 13 dialysis chairs, critically-unwell patients in rural towns across the North […] READ MORE

Hinchinbrook schools benefit from funding makeover

HINCHINBROOK MP Nick Dametto has welcomed more than $1.4 million in State funding to give local schools a much-needed spruce up. The funding is part of a wider State Government program to refurbish education facilities and included $60,000 to demolish a prefabricated building at Bohlevale State School earlier this year, $250,000 to modernise two learning […] READ MORE

Crime running rampant under Labor’s watch

A SPATE of criminal acts across Townsville this week has left law-abiding residents to “fend for themselves”, says Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto. Mr Dametto said the State Labor Government had effectively given up on dishing out real punishments to a core group of recidivist juvenile offenders who are suspected of stealing three vehicles and dumping […] READ MORE

Dametto backs campaign to honour fallen police

A PARLIAMENTARY e-petition calling for consideration on merit of serving police officers whose loss of life can be attributed to suicide being added to the Police Honour Roll has gained the strong support of Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto. Mr Dametto is sponsoring the e-petition started by local resident Steven Isles, who lost his father, Senior […] READ MORE

Highway horrors prompts KAP’s calls for action

Katter’s Australian Party Leader Robbie Katter has slammed the Brisbane-based Labor State Government for not acting to address the state of North Queensland’s highways and roads following a horror death toll during the last financial year. The number of fatalities on Townsville roads was up 30 percent from 16 deaths in 2018/19, to 21 deaths […] READ MORE

Regional quarantine plan needed now: KAP

A contingency plan to protect North Queensland from future outbreaks of COVID-19 in the state’s south-east must be developed by the end of this week, Katter’s Australian Party MPs have said. KAP Leader and Traeger MP Robbie Katter said while many had welcomed the Premier’s decision to close Queensland’s borders to New South Wales and […] READ MORE

Eco-trail funding should be redirected

FUNDING budgeted for the State Government’s stalled Thorsborne Trail eco-tourism project should be redirected to other projects in the region, says Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto. Mr Dametto said after nearly two years since expressions of interest were called for to develop an eco-tourism experience on Hinchinbrook Island, it had become obvious “the project would not […] READ MORE

Dametto presses Premier on border closure

HINCHINBROOK MP Nick Dametto has called on Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to reveal the “trigger point” for closing Queensland’s border again as coronavirus cases mount in New South Wales. Mr Dametto said there was “growing distress” amongst residents about a second wave of COVID-19 pushing into Queensland with the border remaining open and news today of […] READ MORE

Crocs roam free under Labor’s watch

A NUMBER of close calls between crocodiles and residents in Hinchinbrook has again highlighted the failure of the State Labor Government’s crocodile management policy, says Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto. Mr Dametto said he was extremely concerned for the welfare of residents in the community of Beach Holm after they contacted him recently with reports of […] READ MORE

Kid crims would get ‘free pass’ under law change

CHILDREN who commit heinous crimes against innocent people would be let off the hook with a proposed change to the age of criminal responsibility, says Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto. Mr Dametto said Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath should resist “any and all attempts” to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14, which is […] READ MORE