From Townsville Bureau
KAP Member for Hill Shane Knuth has launched a fierce attack on the Queensland Redistribution Commission’s proposal to abolish his electorate of Hill, warning it will strip North Queensland communities of their voice in Parliament.
Under the Commission’s proposal, which endorses the LNP submission recommending the abolishment of Hill, the electorate would be dismantled and absorbed into neighbouring electorates including Mulgrave, Hinchinbrook and Flinders, diminishing North Queensland seats from 13 to 12 – increasing Brisbane to more than 60.
This is despite an overwhelming number of submissions to the Commission that strongly opposed abolishing the seat of Hill.
Time and time again the three members of supposedly independent commission, Gregory Koppenol (Judicial Chairman), John Sosso (Member), and Pat Vidgen PSM (Electoral Commissioner), have ignored many hundreds of public submissions telling them to leave an electorate alone but have acted against the will of the people who pay their exorbitant wages.
Mr Knuth said the decision represents a devastating blow to communities across the Tablelands and Cassowary Coast, who will lose a dedicated representative fighting for the north in Brisbane.
“I am extremely disappointed and deeply concerned by the proposal to abolish the seat of Hill and carve our communities up between other electorates,” Mr Knuth said.
“I have my doubts the Commission would have recommended for the abolishment of Hill without the LNP Submission.”
Mr Knuth said the proposal raises serious questions about the integrity of the redistribution process and the level of influence major political parties have over it.
“Regional Queenslanders are rightly asking whether this process is truly independent when the outcome so clearly disadvantages North Queensland.”
This is the third time the LNP has abolished a seat won by the intrepid, hard-working, Katters Australian Party member ever since he cancelled his membership of the LNP in 2011.
A former North Queensland NRL player, Knuth first won the seat of Charters Towers for the LNP in 2004 then a redistribution in 2009 created the new electorate of Dalrymple which he held until 2017 when another redistribution, with the help of the Brisbane-centric LNP, created the new seat of Hill which he has held since then.
Not since the early 80’s, under the leadership of Premier Joh Bjelke Petersen, has the Liberal National Party targeted a state member with such vengeance, modeled on the infamous LNP gerrymander which held the Labor Party in check for many years.
Knuth is extremely popular in North Queensland coming from a successful cattle producing family and his 20 years working in the railway. Perhaps being a member of the NQ Marlins rugby league team playing at the top of the ladder 1984-86 then playing for the Dolphins 1987-92 engendered his tremendous empathy towards his constituents.
Since the announcement of the latest gerrymander Knuth’s loyal constituents have hit the media running, in support, attacking the Redistribution Commission’s sortie against North Queensland’s prime farming district of the Atherton Tablelands.
On ABC Radio Malanda farmer Peter English unleashed a scathing attack on the “biased” Redistribution Commission which Premier Crisafulli claims is independent of the LNP.
“How are we going to be represented when the electorate is centered on Mt Isa 1100 klms away? This decision to take away our parliamentary representation is madness,” he said.
The thriving townships of Malanda, Milla Milla, Ravenshoe, Herberton and Mt Garnet will become a part of Robbie Katter’s (Traeger) renamed Flinders electorate at the next state election.
The Hill electorate with its highly productive farming and cattle production certainly pays its way in the state’s economic stakes thanks to Knuth’s stewardship through the dark years of Labor rule.
Tablelands Regional Council has loudly voiced its objection to having their key townships being included in Flinders, primarily based on the vast distance to Mt Isa. Flinders has been held by KAP leader Robbie Katter for 14 years.
His enormous electorate based on Mt Isa extends from the Northern Territory border through the Gulf Region south to Charters Towers, a vast electorate which would be impossible to cover without aircraft.
Traeger covered an area of 428,911 square kilometres which Robbie Katter could only service by air using his own plane and he is livid the LNP thinks it can wipe out KAP in North Queensland by gerrymandering himself and Knuth out of parliament.
“This attack on the people of North Queensland by the LNP delivers Brisbane one more seat and denies the agricultural engine room of the state decent representation in parliament, now with just 12 seats,” said the popular Robbie Katter.
The most recent, overt maneuvering against KAP started with the Premier in 2025 suggesting then KAP member for Hinchinbrook, Nick Dametto, another energetic and prominent representative, put up his hand for the vacant position of Townsville Mayor. In doing so Crisafulli promised the LNP would help him with his campaign. Dametto won the mayoralty by a margin of more than 60 percent which he would have done in any case without help from the Premier.
The KAP candidate narrowly lost the ensuing by-election in Dametto’s vacated electorate to the LNP with the help of One Nation preferences. The Premier’s strategy worked nicely, albeit the LNP had an average of 10 or more helpers handing out how to vote cards on every Hinchinbrook booth. Federal Member for Kennedy Bob Katter also was helping at booths and remarked he had never seen sitting State Cabinet Ministers and their staff handing out voting material in his 50 years of parliament.
Disenfranchising the people of Hill by the LNP is motivated by the KAP ‘thorn in the side’ syndrome which has scored several direct hits on the morality of most LNP MP’s who have supported the killing of babies at nine months old in the state’s numerous abortion clinics.
In 2024 there were more than 10,000 abortions carried out in Queensland, which is, according to the Australian Christian Lobby, a terrible aberration of humanity. After the latest unsuccessful attempt to reopen the abortion debate by Robbie Katter, the incensed Crisafulli, after one of his LNP members crossed the floor in support, banned any mention of the word ‘abortion’ in parliament until after the next election.
The LNP’s other no-go topics are crocodile control and Castle Law, which saw the biggest ever tabled, parliamentary petition initiated by KAP, allowing for home owners to defend themselves during all-too-frequent violent home invasions by any means available without fear of prosecution.
KAP is leading these charges much to the chagrin of the Premier who for whatever reason does not believe in the right of self- defence against marauding young criminals or voracious crocodiles.
An angry Shane Knuth charged: “The LNP is trying to destroy KAP by whatever means necessary.”
Shane Knuth has asked the residents of Hill electorate to sign this parliamentary petition in an effort to keep the electorate intact:
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/petition-details/4460-26
[…] Not solely does gerrymandering of electorates happen in SA however the newest instance is in Queensland the place the Liberal Nationwide Social gathering is attempting to gerrymander Katters Australian Social gathering out of parliament by recommending one in all its far northern seats, Hill, be abolished altogether, for the third time. https://cairnsnews.org/2026/03/14/redistribution-abolishes-kap-seat-of-hill-for-third-time-moving-it… […]
[…] Not only does gerrymandering of electorates occur in SA but the most recent example is in Queensland where the Liberal National Party is trying to gerrymander Katters Australian Party out of parliament by recommending one of its far northern seats, Hill, be abolished altogether, for the third time. https://cairnsnews.org/2026/03/14/redistribution-abolishes-kap-seat-of-hill-for-third-time-moving-it… […]
[…] Not only does gerrymandering of electorates occur in SA but the most recent example is in Queensland where the Liberal National Party is trying to gerrymander Katters Australian Party out of parliament by recommending one of its far northern seats, Hill, be abolished altogether, for the third time. https://cairnsnews.org/2026/03/14/redistribution-abolishes-kap-seat-of-hill-for-third-time-moving-it… […]
[…] Not only does gerrymandering of electorates occur in SA but the most recent example is in Queensland where the Liberal National Party is trying to gerrymander Katters Australian Party out of parliament by recommending one of its far northern seats, Hill, be abolished altogether, for the third time. https://cairnsnews.org/2026/03/14/redistribution-abolishes-kap-seat-of-hill-for-third-time-moving-it… […]
The Brisbane Power Brokers Wedge
The abolition of the electorate of Hill is a deliberate assault on the political representation of FNQ, designed to protect the influence of Townsville and provoke parochial discourse.
As at the QRC initial designated electoral roll baseline review date, 30MAY25, the Northern Queensland Electoral Area (NQ and FNQ), together with the Large District electorates of Cook and Traeger, had a total 13 electorates and 510,323 enrolled voters including the virtual 12,515 LAA malapportionment voters, providing 12.67 quotas. The five FNQ electorates, Cook, Barron River, Cairns, Mulgrave and Hill had 205,042 including a LAA of 3937 for 5.09 quotas while total new enrollments were keeping pace with the state average. Other than minor boundary realignments are justified.
Meanwhile, the cluster of 6 electorates about the NQ ‘capital’, Townsville, Thuringowa, Mundingburra, Burdekin, Hinchinbrook and Traeger had 225,116 including a LAA of for 5.59 quotas while the rate of new enrollments was well below the state average. With Mundingburra already at -12.13% and enrollment projections indicating that Townsville, Thuringowa, Burdekin and Traeger would exceed the -10% tolerance by 2032, major intervention would be required to prevent the abolition of a NQ electorate. However, the targeting of a FNQ electorate as a remedy is contemptible.
Having 5quotas, it is provocative to reduce FNQ political representation from 5 to 4 by facilitating incursions that will see the electorate of Hinchinbrook extended north, from south of Tully, to be within the Cairns LGA and Flinders, formerly Traeger extended north to Chillagoe and encompassing much of rural southern Tablelands. This is a cynical subterfuge to enable voter numbers in southern Hinchinbrook and eastern Traeger to remedy the shortfall in the Townsville, Thuringowa, Mundingburra and Burdekin electorates.
With the growth of SEQ enrolled voters, NQ and FNQ together no longer have sufficient quotas to warrant the current 13 electorates. However, the deficiency lies with NQ, as does an equitable solution.
Heike Jindra said – “… 10.000 babies killed – making room for foreigners?”
Close, but no cigar.
Make that count 100,000+ for the ENTIRETY of Australia EVERY YEAR, that’s so-called “Full Term Abortions”, perfectly healthy NEWBORN BABIES slaughtered at the POINT OF BIRTH, probably closer to a MILLION Australian infants EVERY YEAR when you add in ALL the abortions. in ALL the clinics and private practices and death camps aka “hospitals” peppered all across the Australian continent.
But let’s just focus on the so-called “Full Term Abortions”, folks. That’s over 100,000 NEWBORN BABIES butchered alive at the POINT OF BIRTH, manipulated so they come out FEET FIRST because “legally” they’re “NOT BORN” and “NOT HUMAN” until the baby’s HEAD emerges from the mother’s body. So that’s the TRICK, folks, that’s the BS legalistic GYMNASTICS all these barbaric sub-human MURDERERS use to whitewash their CRIMES, their INFANTICIDE for PROFIT, when they insert a steel tube into the baby’s head and SUCK ITS LIVING BRAINS OUT, just before the baby’s head emerges DURING ITS LIVE BIRTH.
Congratulations Australia, the mass murder, the genocidal LIVE BUTCHERY of over OVER 100,000 NEWBORN BABIES each and every year, COMPLETELY LEGALISED and NORMALISED and AGGRESSIVELY PROMOTED in EVERY Australian state and territory, the foundation of an international SUCCESS story, a multi-billion dollar empire founded on buying and selling and trading BABY PARTS in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical and FOOD PROCESSING industries, as well as foodstock for the niche elite gourmet cannibal set and Satanic rituals. Try dodging THAT one when your time to account to the Creator comes. Inaction is COMPLICITY and Silence is CONSENT.
Commenter rope is right over the target. Sorry to say there is no point waiting 5 or 6 years for anything since the BIS system will be fully implemented by then. I don’t follow martin Armstrong but as far as I know he is talking about an economic collapse at that time, the future scenario may be closer to “Soylent Green” than you think. Rockerfellas would love that. Waiting for 5 or 6 years is a problem in itself. You can see everything in the rear-view mirror, it has all been on display since Jan 2020. The excuses for inaction just keep coming. “Mooo”, “baaa”.
The minions are still hard at it, the last thing I saw was two huge minions carrying off a scrawny girl to a potential 2 year jail term for wearing a particular T-shirt. I would do something myself but I don’t have a stake in Australia’s future so why should I.
You know the old saying, “What did you do grandpa” and your answer will be “I knowed nuffink”.
When ever does the ball of string write anything worth reading ?
The Redistribution Commissioners I suspect would be working for an incorporated entity so why not hit them in the Courts for the financial well being of FNQ that losing Hill would bring financial distress to its tax paying constituents who would lose their voices being heard in the parliament of the people.
People should have more respect for thought-leader Commenter rope. The establishment controls the commoners in ways the commoners are barely aware of, if at all, and they have had centuries of practice. It somewhat seems Queensland has been chosen to become the next South Africa. It will happen so slowly the commoners will not notice anything happening, they will just continue munching on their traditional McDonalds and watching their traditional ABC-TV. The establishment’s minions, as demonstrated by Dicktator Dan of Mornington Peninsula, can get away with ANYTHING. They can pretend they are doing nuffink and know nuffink as with Federal Ministers, RBA Gov, AGs, GGs, and state variants. The village quack made a lot of people very sick and still they go back, not for revenge but for more BigPharma drug product. The complaints against the uncensored delivery of Commenter rope are misdirected !!! The complainers don’t realise – they are part of the problem.
Hey Rope
Occasionally you say something worthwhile, however your continual slurs detract from it.
You behave like a typical “all talk no action” type, and your words are immature and childish.
Rope = pig poo
Katter and Knuth are good for NQ and Oz in general. If NQ secedes from the Fed, I might even move there if they have more than 2 weeks of fuel.
Unbelieveable whats happening in Australia’s political North.
And – 10.000 babies killed – making room for foreigners?
If the north Qld cattle want to be heard by their Shabbos goy political leaders in Brisbane, they should vote with rope and establish their own country.
But they won’t as they’re addicted to eating goyslop while watching footie on the Talmudvision, and because they were disarmed by 3 false flag attacks.
They deserve it lose this seat, just as they deserve to be flooded.
North Qld = cattle.
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