Popular and dynamic Katters Australian Party Member for Hill, Shane Knuth, the bloke who orchestrated the first dumping of the national Covid mandate in the Queensland Parliament could lose his electorate under a politicised electoral redistribution.
From Atherton to Tully voters would potentially be abandoned after the LNP recommended Atherton, Dimbulah, Ravenshoe, Babinda, Innisfail and Tully be added to other electorates, possibly giving the LNP another seat in Brisbane.
This is now the third time the Liberal National Party has tried to get rid of Mr Knuth due to his effectiveness in dealing with major public concerns such as crocodile removals, abortion, ocean fishing quotas, tackling dodgy speed cameras, national parks cattle shooting, wind turbines, getting road upgrades including a new road access from Tablelands to Cairns, preventing the LNP from closing any more rail networks, ad infinitum, all being issues the LNP refuses to adequately administer.
These concerns generally are in the National Party domain but the alleged farmer’s party missed the boat after Joh Bjelke Petersen left government in 1987 and now their members really are Liberals wearing Akubras.
Shane Knuth and KAP helped organise the well-attended March for Freedom rally in Townsville at the weekend waving the Australian flag in deference to the News Ltd campaign naming marchers and flag wavers as un-Australian.
KAP since its inception in 2012 has been recognised as the only real Opposition in the Queensland Parliament.
The independent Queensland Redistribution Commission (QRC) is just an offshoot of the extremely partisan Queensland Electoral Commission allowing Labor Premier Palaszczuk to give the electoral roll to China some years ago.
The National’s Fiona Simpson was the only member of the Opposition to kick up a fuss about handing over the roll at the time. Last week she was the first LNP member to complain about recent March for Australia rallies.
The QRC was expected to do the bidding of LNP or Labor’s preferred electoral boundaries as it has done at every other boundary realignment.
KAP could benefit from a redistribution if the QRC breaks up Hill by spilling voters from this KAP stronghold into adjoining electorates which would tip the scales to elect additional KAP members.
The notion of adding more voters and more area to the adjoining electorate of Traeger based on Mt Isa was ” ridiculous” according to sitting member Robbie Katter who said it was nearly impossible to cover the vast area of the electorate now, without adding more distance to travel.
The dilemma for Mr Knuth is which seat to challenge at the next election? He could easily take the adjoining, marginal seat of Cook held by the LNP which was won last election with KAP preferences, provided the capable and popular, former KAP candidate Duane Amos decides not challenge member David Kempton.
The LNP as usual has shot itself in the foot by calling for the removal of Hill. In three years time at the next state election, long-suffering Far Northern voters will have had enough of no money to fix a pothole or getting a band-aid at the hospital.
The LNP had their chance to can Labor’s folly of an unaffordable Olympic Games, however decided to continue with long-term siphoning of North Queensland-generated income into the bottomless South East corner pit.
Meanwhile KAP leader Robbie Katter ridiculed the LNP for again trying to unseat Shane Knuth by proposing to make the South East corner even bigger by removing a seat in North Queensland.
“Queenslanders outside of Brisbane are already strangled by the one size fits all approach from Brisbane, so expanding the number of seats down there will only further dilute the voice of the rest of the state,” he said.
“It really defies logic that with more than half of their 53 seats being from outside the Brisbane Bubble, they’d suggest denying rural Queensland of a voice in parliament,” the KAP Leader said.
Commenter wright
You’re stretching your facts now. You have no idea what media I look at and how far back my investigations go. I’m interested in reality and pragmatism and even though you’re probably old it seems like you are suffering from idealism. If I want to call out ABC-TV agents I will. And you can bang on about Trump Warp Speed while in Australia all the Health Ministers get promoted to Premier and ABC-TV lies about injections, CO2 etc. What have you ever done. You like to take on the editor of this news site and now me, while potentially not doing anything at all yourself ( apart from blowing hot air ), indicates a disruptive element, looking for fractures, where there are only shades of difference. Nobody is looking to you for leadership, and you don’t seem to have anything new to say. Face up to it man you’re a damp squib.
Bogan 2
“I think this aspect of human behaviour is another major issue Mein Trumpf has to deal with. I’m not impatient or judgmental as you so I see no harm in giving it time.
Hope this clears things up.”
It does clear up one thing: you’re defending a genocidal mass murdering, narcissistic psychopath, regardless of all the other issues you try to blame on other things such as the ABC.
You see ‘no harm in giving it time’… yes, more time for Trump to start more wars and kill more innocent men, women and children in foreign countries and for him and his evil accomplices to roll out a new fake pandemic and ‘Warp speed 2.0’.
And I’ve repeatedly stated on this forum that I don’t watch or listen to the ABC, or any other government controlled, MSM script-reading propagandists.
You should perhaps consider doing the same.
Try switching off your TV for a while and listen to other people and their views, such this renowned US nurse practitioner and the other honest and courageous professionals she recommends and whose informed opinions and warnings everyone needs to know about:
https://rumble.com/v6ygdcy-has-president-trump-been-duped-and-poisoned.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
However, I’d wager that you won’t even bother to click the link, let alone listen to her. Seems you’re too busy watching ABC TV, merely so you can cherry pick their lies and misinformation, then complain about them, when all you need to do, (knowing they are renowned for LYING), is completely ignore them.
Mary
September 4, 2025 at 4:06 pm, said:
“Jase, Shane’s home town is Charters Towers, so don’t count your chickens yet. Or get your hopes up.”
Come on Mary, Just for 3 years 🤠
On how KAP lost the sure thing Cook seat in the last election, DUANE AMOS, appeared to be a down to earth bloke, despite being a cop, people up in Cape were prepared to give him a go, I spoke to him on the phone after he called me for more than an hour regarding issues that other had said I’ve been working on in the Cape. Both Duane and Robbie toured the Cape shaking hands and taking pictures. But they made a couple of huge mistakes. So many think Weipa is Cape York, Weipa is a mining town, the overwhelming majority of people who are there DO NOT LIVE IN THE COOK ELECTORATE, But KAP spent more time in Weipa or in places where Government people or land councils are ALSO PEOPLE WHO DONT LIVE IN THE COOK ELECTORATE, then after talking to people who had no skin in the game KAP put out a flyer headed “WHO IS THIS MAN”
inside this 3 fold flyer it said “WHAT ABOUT FNQ” “WHERE IS FNQ’S TUNNEL” then said
ACHIEVEMENTS .
*National Crime and violence prevention AWARD.
*National police service Medal
*National Emergency Medal
*Queensland police medal
*National service medal
*Premiers Citation – Disaster Management
*Citations – QPS 150 year, G20
*Whole of Govt. Coordinator, QLD Govt, Cairns & Aurukun
*Assistant Commissioner Certificates – Leadership, Bravery, Disaster Management
*State Domestic Violence Award
All this above may have tickled the fly in fly out miners in Weipa and the government services (who don’t vote in the electorate)
But the genuine Bushies in the Cape seen a person who new nothing out side government nore knew us bushies don’t have fire services, don’t have good relationships with charlatans in government, and don’t need some tosser who will stick there chest out to say look I’m better than you look at my shiny boots and medals.
That flyer made me not vote KAP and after talking to people they said exactly the same thing.
Shane I’ve met too, many times. Shane Bob and others were called into mission Beach when the Canberra rellie was on. Instead of Canberra I and others went and stood in front of cops with machine guns pointed at us who were trying to shut businesses down in Mission Beach.
I seen fear in both Shane’s eyes and Bob too. The cops were ruthless and we stood our ground. It’s was definitely touch and go down there, the cops didn’t even recognise they were state and federal politicians.
That’s the grit we need, people who stand with you, not far away in shiny boots wearing medals
Just another blatant attempt by Labor to cut the ground from under the feet of the successful opposition by Katter’s party, to their communist tactics.
People up there need to speak out about this…it’s criminality and fraud at its best!
*WHEN* is the northern half of the state going to separate from the mongrels of politics in SEQ??????? What needs to happen to initiate this process?
Commenter wright
I’ve already explained my position on Mein Trumpf but in short he is taking things in a better direction. If you want the latest on his appointee RFK Jr, shutting down 1/5 of the CDC and “making America healthy again” look no further than ABC-TV ( you paid for it ) and the old fleabag John Barren who is himself desperately trying to sell everyone on injecting covid-19 junk. They are borrowing Mein Trumpf’s old line, you only shoot up the junk if you want to. They have various clips combined with a fascinating commentary that is almost pure bullshit. John Barren used to be the ABC-TV “fact-checker” but they sacked him and gave the job to RMIT, it sounded more official to get a few left-wing students and academics to do it. So John Barren as a 3rd class ABC employee ( white male ) is dishing up the propaganda in a desperate attempt to keep his job for another season. Poor John, he is like an old lady in a mini-skirt trying to turn a trick at the Cross. Poor sad jumbled up John, despised by all the women and brown people of DEI ( Diversity, Inclusion, Egalite ), old Norman Swansky must have put in a good word for the useful idiot, since the other va666ine nutter Virgina Trioli got sidelined.
We have real problems with our Aunty ABC who has senile dementia and needs a massive enema. I don’t know why people fixate on Trump during a few months in 2020 when he inadvertently dumped the whole problem on Biden, after making it very very clear “you only take it if you want to”. I think it would have been during Biden’s term the forced injections of US army personnel and others happened.
Sure Trump sent the money to Gates but probably had a number of guns at his head by then, that being one of them.
I wonder if you ever noticed when you hire a tradie to do anything, instead of doing what you verbally contracted them to do, they like to do something else. I think this aspect of human behaviour is another major issue Mein Trumpf has to deal with. I’m not impatient or judgmental as you so I see no harm in giving it time.
Hope this clears things up.
Joe Bogan:
“Invite Donald Trump for a state visit to meet your FNQ separatist council. Stop wishing lawyers will do it for you !!!”
So, stop wishing lawyers will do it and start wishing the great Jabdaddy will.
That’ll work for sure. 😂🤣
I’m guessing (hoping) this was your attempt at satire?
FNQ needs to have a council of war like Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, those guys. Start using USD parallel currency. Start gun clubs. Invite Donald Trump for a state visit to meet your FNQ separatist council. Stop wishing lawyers will do it for you !!! I might come up and join you.
We moved to what was then Tablelands electorate in early 1995 when it was still blue ribbon LNP. Next election, 1998, the long time sitting member was replaced by Rosa Lee Long, PHON. He was shocked but We were very happy with her. Labor stopped standing candidates as it was repeatedly unsuccessful. So Electoral Commission split Tablelands & it became Dalrymple, 1000K long & with no coastal area. We had to drive out of our Electorate, through 2 others then back into Dalrymple to take the shortest route south on the inland route. Shane became our member then, but we are now Hill with the prospect of becoming something ‘new’, again! To date, we have lived in the same house but in 3 different electorates!!! 2025 State Election, LNP presented a truly excellent candidate, but he was unsuccessful, such is the trust in the Government systems & their apparent attempts to manipulate us voters. No matter how much they continue in this dishonest vein, our trust will not be earned. Quite the opposite. Jase, Shane’s home town is Charters Towers, so don’t count your chickens yet. Or get your hopes up.
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Please 🙏 Shane Take Cook.
The Scumbag presently in Cook is only concerned regarding getting Aboriginal grants for legal services to fill his and his mates pockets.
He thought promises were going to be forgotten from the election but the people in the bush who voted for the prick have now turned on him.
He doesn’t even live in the bloody area, he was initiated originally from NSW, dressed up in RM Williams gear, had a Aruba dumped on his head and jumped in as Pat from Vic says Warren Enchs 4 poster. (Story there too) Warren’s Side line another time maybe)
The bloke started as a fraud and still bloody is a Scumbag.
Please 🙏 Shane, Cook mate, we need ya common sense up in Cook.