Bob Katter

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First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 32 mins ago - 1 reports

ACTU calls for emergency talks on car industry

Ford's decision to stop making cars in Australia has sparked a political debate over rising business costs and industry assistance.The news that the Ford plants at Broadmeadows and Geelong will shut in 2016 has prompted calls for high level government ... [Published ABC Online - 17 hours ago]
First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Foreign food warnings a lick closer

AUSTRALIAN consumers want to know where their food comes from, but phrases such as "made from local and imported content" or "product of Australia" make it difficult to decipher the truth.Controversial senator Bob Katter is planning to do something about ... [Published Efficient Farming - 10 hours ago]
First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Animal welfare or the environment

A possible solution supported by Northern Queensland graziers, the Queensland branch of the RSPCA, MP Bob Katter and the Federal Opposition, is to allow 25,000 cattle to graze in Queensland national parks. So far Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke ... [Published The Sydney News - May 23 2013]
First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports
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Katter will demand Aussie cars

INDEPENDENT MP Bob Katter will move for government fleet vehicles to be mandatorily Australian-made.Mr Katter, in Melbourne today, will push for the motion alongside Victorian DLP Senator John Madigan when Parliament resumes next week.The call comes following ... [Published Weekly Times Now - May 23 2013]
First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Katter’s bid to restore internationa

A DELEGATION of north Queensland graziers will meet in Canberra next week to amplify ongoing efforts to rescue Australia's northern cattle industry from escalating crisis.Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter will escort the delegates to meet with the ... [Published Efficient Farming - May 23 2013]
Entities: Bob Katter, Canberra, Cattle
First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

What if Nick Xenophon decides our carbon future?

If Nick Xenophon holds the balance of power in the Senate after the election, climate change policy will get very interesting. Here’s one possible scenario — which sees an ETS return, but in a different form.Recent Nielsen polling analysis suggests the ... [Published Crikey Media - May 23 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 2 reports

Sugar sale plans kept under wraps

A deal has been exposed between Queensland Sugar Limited and Wilmar. Image: photo credit: FlickrA deal has been exposed between Queensland Sugar Limited and Wilmar, which would have given the multinational giant selling rights to Australia's $1.7b raw ... [Published Food Magazine Australia - May 23 2013]
Entities: Sugar, Monopoly, Bob Katter
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Let's put our money on Team Australia

Source: The Daily Telegraph I FIND myself asking a simple question. If a race horse, Black Caviar, can bring a nation together, why does our current Federal Parliament achieve the opposite? In decades past there was an overlap of major parties that could ... [Published Brisbane Courier-Mail - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Katter on$ drive for$ recruits

QUEENSLAND MP Bob Katter said that fellow Queenslander former prime minister Kevin Rudd made a mistake supporting same sex marriage.``When you are under a lot of pressure you can make mistakes and you can make bad mistakes,'' Mr Katter said.There was ... [Published Northwest Tasmania Advocate - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

New federal loans will help farmers: NFF

Concessional government loans worth $420 million will help farmers who are being "smashed" by the high Australian dollar and rising production prices, the National Farmers' Federation says.Treasurer Wayne Swan and Agricultural Minister Joe Ludwig on Saturday ... [Published Melbourne Age - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Happy to call Hughenden home

TROY ROWLINGHughenden resident Gaby Russell is thrilled with the town's new aged-care facility and said she looks forward to spending her days there.IT has taken more than a decade, but the people of Hughenden can finally celebrate next month.Elderly ... [Published Queensland Country Life - May 22 2013]
First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Xenophon will save carbon trading

Senator Xenophon is likely to hold the keys to repeal of the carbon price. But in repealing it he could readily reconfigure Direct Action into an emissions trading scheme by stealth.You must be logged in to read this articleNot a member yet? Register ... [Published Business Spectator - May 22 2013]

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"we'll move that all motor vehicles purchased by state and federal governments will be australian-made with predominantly australian steel and if the states refuse then they lose concomitant federal funding" Mr Katter said
Katter will demand Aussie cars [Published Weekly Times Now - May 23 2013]
"two years ago, i asked whether all those crying about the welfare of cattle bred for beef would shed the same tears for our nearest neighbours' hungriest people who have been deprived of essential protein, or for the australians also reliant on this northern lifeblood industry whose lives have been destroyed" Katter said
Katter’s bid to restore internationa [Published Efficient Farming - May 23 2013]

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Foreign food warnings a lick closer [Published Efficient Farming - 10 hours ago]
ACTU calls for emergency talks on car industry [Published ABC Online - 17 hours ago]
Costa attacks Labor leader over coal future [Published Newcastle Herald - May 23 2013]
Animal welfare or the environment [Published The Sydney News - May 23 2013]
Katter will demand Aussie cars [Published Weekly Times Now - May 23 2013]
Katter’s bid to restore internationa [Published Efficient Farming - May 23 2013]
What if Nick Xenophon decides our carbon future? [Published Crikey Media - May 23 2013]
Animal welfare or the environment? [Published Queensland Country Life - May 23 2013]
Sugar sale plans kept under wraps [Published Food Magazine Australia - May 23 2013]
Let's put our money on Team Australia [Published Brisbane Courier-Mail - May 22 2013]
Katter on$ drive for$ recruits [Published Northwest Tasmania Advocate - May 22 2013]
New federal loans will help farmers: NFF [Published Melbourne Age - May 22 2013]
Happy to call Hughenden home [Published Queensland Country Life - May 22 2013]
Katter declares secret sugar deal sham [Published Efficient Farming - May 22 2013]
Queensland cattle crisis: animal welfare or the... [Published Brisbane Times - May 22 2013]
Xenophon will save carbon trading [Published Business Spectator - May 22 2013]
Katter's bid for Tassie [Published Tasmania Mercury - May 22 2013]
Katter on candidate hunt [Published ABC Online - May 21 2013]
Katter on candidate hunt (ABC) [Published Yahoo! News Australia - May 21 2013]
Carbon price in hands of someone we don’t know [Published Renew Economy - May 21 2013]
Katter to push development [Published Tasmania Mercury - May 21 2013]
ABC Rural Report for Southern Queensland and Ca... [Published ABC Online - May 20 2013]
Katter visit to boost election support [Published Northwest Tasmania Advocate - May 20 2013]
Dairy sets its political agenda [Published Stock Journal Australia - May 20 2013]
Independents' role has been laudable - and will... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 20 2013]
Fight against mining impacts continues [Published Newcastle Herald - May 20 2013]
ABC Rural Report for Southern Queensland and Ca... [Published ABC Online - May 20 2013]
Forum told alternate energy sources needed [Published ABC Online - May 19 2013]
Cain an independent voice following split [Published Bathurst Western Advocate - May 19 2013]
Vic fruit industry's 'execution' [Published Stock & Land - May 19 2013]
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Katter kaos [Published Andrew Bolt - May 16 2013]
Clive Palmer is the bigger joke, but Bob Katter is in… ...
Seat of the week: New England [Published The Poll Bludger - Apr 27 2013]
New England was created at federation and has changed remarkably since, at all times accommodating Armidale and Tamworth and losing Glen Innes only between 1934 and 1949. Currently the electorate sits inland of the north coast seats of Richmond, Cowper ...
Is Labor too big to fail? I [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Apr 02 2013]
The title of this post is adapted from Jonathan Green’s think piece – ‘ Is the ALP really too big to fail ?’ I suspect that posing the question this way is to put it the wrong way. Green hones in on a bigger issue: We’re living through a moment ...
Wilkie warms: stability or early election [Published Andrew Bolt - Mar 23 2013]
Andrew Wilkie is the independent who, along with Bob Katter, is most likely to keep his seat, and therefore has less to lose for an… ...
Katter wants journalists stopped fropm repeatin... [Published Andrew Bolt - Mar 20 2013]
Bob Katter ran the most vilely homophobic campaign ads at… ...
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