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Bob Katter MP
- Katter's Australian Party Representative for Kennedy
- Changed party from Independent on 27 Sep 2011
- Entered House of Representatives on 13 March 1993 — Federal election
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Most recent appearances in parliament
- Statements by Members: Bridle Track Tunnel (4 Nov 2024)
“(): I once had a dream of our country so grand Where rivers outback irrigated the land With dams and canals in that wasteland out there And big inland cities with work everywhere. Stan Coster had it right when he sang about the dreams he had for his country. He dreamed of Australia as a place where he took the degraded wasteland and turned it into a lacework of thin green, where the rivers...”
- Questions without Notice: Renewable Energy (11 Sep 2024)
“() (): Minister for mines, is the bipartisan 2050 zero emissions target a lying hypocrisy, or is Australia's coal industry to be abolished, with 48,000 jobs and one-twentieth of the economy to vanish? Since solar and nuclear in India is as likely as the Bullamakanka Progress Association achieving a moon landing, doesn't the 2050 target condemn 600 million people, half of India, to continue to...”
- Statements by Members: Great Artesian Basin (21 Aug 2024)
“There was a very foolish initiative by the federal government which allowed the contamination of the Great Artesian aquifer. People are ignorant of the history of our nation, but there were not many people living in inland Queensland and, to a lesser extent, inland New South Wales, because there was no surface water. That was most certainly true of Queensland and to a lesser extent in New...”
Numbers
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- Has spoken in 48 debates in the last year — average amongst Representatives.
- People have made 29 comments on this Representative's speeches — well above average amongst Representatives.
- This Representative's speeches are understandable to an average 14–15 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
- 99 people are tracking whenever this Representative speaks — email me whenever Bob Katter speaks.
- Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 664 times in debates — well above average amongst Representatives. (Why is this here?)