Federal Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter, has unleashed on the federal and state government warning that this year’s flooding, stock losses and road destruction across the mid-west and Gulf must be the turning point for governments who continue to treat North Queensland’s annual wet season as an “unexpected emergency” instead of preparing for it properly.
Mr Katter said the region cannot continue enduring the same crisis, the same damage, and the same bureaucratic battles every single year.
He warned the government that the scale of this year’s losses will not be minimised or brushed aside.
“If the losses compare to the last flooding event, and the government thinks it’s going to get away with a $75 million package when last time it was $270 million, they have another ‘think’ coming.
“Up here, we don’t have stream flows; we have a dry, and then massive flooding,” Mr Katter said.
“This is not a surprise. It happens every single year. The surprise is that governments still insist on reacting instead of preparing and providing the local councils and farmers with the support they need to deal with it.”
He said it is past time that Category D disaster funding is automatically activated at the start of every wet season, not negotiated after communities have already suffered.
“We shouldn’t be fighting after every wet for Category D. It must be automatic when vital assets essential for cattle operations are damaged. Last time, the local supermarket couldn’t get goods through and had huge stock losses, and they weren’t eligible for a cent. This sort of bureaucratic nonsense has to stop.”
Mr Katter said bureaucratic delays and pedantic processes were costing lives, livelihoods and entire local economies.
“Petty public servants are tying this process up in knots. They cross every T and dot every I while our communities bleed. I warn governments: people have had a gutful.”
Mr Katter has spent the past fortnight contacting mayors, graziers and farmers across the Gulf and mid-west.
“I’m laid up with a broken foot, but my Electorate Officer Chief of Staff has been out there with Robbie Katter, touring the areas. The cattlemen are reluctant to confirm total losses yet, but the damage is real, and itis unacceptable that we’re still dealing with this like it’s a new problem.”
He said failures by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) were a prime example of reactive rather than proactive systems.
“The BOM found $96 million to rejig their website but can’t keep river height gauges working in some of our most vulnerable communities. In Doomadgee, this means people don’t know how high the water is or when it’s coming. That’s not a reactive failure; that’s a complete failure to plan and it simply shouldn’t happen.”
Mr Katter said the locals he spoke to were no longer interested in only compensation packages after the fact.
“One leading cattleman said to me, ‘I don’t want to hear about compensation – I want to hear that we’re dealing with the problem.’ I agree with him completely.”
He said the real solutions lie in engineering, water management and local autonomy, not from airconditioned government departments Brisbane.
“North Queensland is governed 2,000 kilometres away by people who don’t understand the land. There’s a million square miles of black soil out here. Two inches of rain seals it over and every drop runs off so of course it floods. But year on year they keep doing nothing.”
Mr Katter said the KAP’s long-term plan for the region includes:
- 200 hectares of freehold irrigation for every owner-operator cattle station
- The long-delayed Hughenden Dam, funded by the $200 million already available from the Commonwealth
- Support for families already storing water and producing fodder to reduce losses in dry periods
- Huge improvements to and maintenance for the BOM weather services across the gulf and mid-west including water and wind gauges, as well as better access to radar data.
- Floodproofing major roads
“The State Government must stop blocking the Hughenden Dam. The money is there federally, and we know they have the money in the state. The need is obvious. The excuses have run out.”
Aussie goyim are not entitled to anything. They voted in a gov that allocated resources to more important things like support for immigrants, mandatory vaccine programs, a gun buyback to disarm the goyim, and one world surveillance. So Aussie farmers deserve to be at the bottom of the government’s priorities.
Don’t like it? Touch luck! Just vote harder next election ahah.
Aussie farmers = lower than bovine.
Yes, farmers could all be assisted and directed to create high ground in all fenced areas for animals to run to at flood times.
Not only giving that much to Ukraine but also 27 million to a Muslim hate preacher in Australia instead of deporting him, we know which side of fence he’s on
“This is not a surprise. It happens every single year. The surprise is that governments still insist on reacting instead of preparing and providing the local councils and farmers with the support they need to deal with it.”
The communo-fascists aren’t interested in farming except to shut it down and hand it over to corporate interests, as long as the money keeps flowing they don’t care about anything except scooping up whatever they can for themselves. But money is fast becoming worthless, all the BRICS and anyone else with any money is dumping USD and in Australia the smart money has been on gold since the inflation broke out. The dollar based systems seem in for a real shock and they will respond by thieving more. Neglecting their responsibilities is another act of theft.
The $96m BOM rejig is mixed up with a bunch of kickbacks involving software and ClimateChange™ propagandising, one conspicuous individual close to the centre of all this is Sydney boy Andrew Charlton MP ALP NSW and one of our WEF infiltrators working / career positioning for Swissy on the side.
All the Climate rubbish is cooked up at the “World Metereological Organisation”, a huge building in Swissyland, and we don’t need any of that here. Like Mein Trumpf we should start exiting the UN. They are useless for anything of value and support a lot of injections “innovations” ($$$) and Pedos Without Borders type of operations.
When is that nice Susan Ley going to grow a pair and stand against the Globalist Climate scam or will Mein Trumpf have to drag her kicking and screaming all the way.
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These governments are contracted service providers, only, Neville. I ran that one by the Victorian Energy Minister’s staff a couple of months before the last Victorian elections, and the staffer I spoke to di not rebut that fact, nor the fact that the Constitution is a legally and lawfully binding contract between the people and the government of the day. Any governmental failure to deliver the required services, which we pay for via our taxes-and more importantly, the credit of the Commonwealth’s borrowing power-is a breach contract, with that accusation sending that ministerial staffer I spoke to that day into a panic, as the charge is applicable.
ANd because all these governments are corporate, full commercial liability-and the requisite compensation-applies.
I can turn my computer on and check the waves on near on every surf beach along the east coast but I can’t do the same for the Dunbar crossing on the Mitchell River in the Gulf to see if it safe enough to cross because the camera still has not been repaired and is not likely to be .
Who ever designed the river crossings must have been the dunces of their school of civil engineering in that the bridges are in the river instead of high up at the same level as the approaches to each river where the roads are drivable .
The ARMY could solve that with 2 lane Bailey Bridges constructed in the same time as in warfare allowing traffic to move during the wet .