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• anish mackerel commercial fishers were breathing an initial sigh of relief following the latest communication received by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) (1)
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• Commercial mackerel fishers have been left in the dark (1)
• commercial Spanish mackerel fishers are hurting; they’ve been put in an unfair and desperate situation and they are calling for the Government to compensate for any reduction in the TACC (1)
• commercial Spanish mackerel fishers feel extremely frustrated and desperate by what is transpiring (1)
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• CT scanner at Ingham Hospital would improve efficiency and save costs in the long run (1)
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• deliver higher fines to fuel suppliers who do not comply with the State’s four per cent bio-based petrol mandate (1)
• Despite these widespread concerns about the validity of the new modelling the Palaszczuk Government is hell-bent on following its new data in the aim of reaching sustainability targets (1)
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• Government had two choices today: to continue allowing the deceit of selling inferior product for a higher price or enforcing truth and pride in putting clean green product on customers’ plates. (1)
• Government should explore the creation of a secondary DV-exclusive police service (1)
• Government was to proceed with any plans to shut down its Coen biosecurity centre (1)
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• Govt called to intervene on the Conflict Islands China sale (1)
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• Graziers and farmers to ramp up on-farm biosecurity (1)
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• gross lack of accountability and transparency (1)
• group of up to 20 juvenile offenders is stealing an average two cars per week (1)
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• Growing risk of Foot and Mouth and Lumpy Skin diseases being spread to Australia. (1)
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• High demonstrated need for this type of life-saving medical equipment (1)
• Highest priced natural gas in the world (1)
• Hinchinbrook has always been a very giving and tight-knit community (1)
• Hinchinbrook MP called on the State Government to unlock funding for security fences at NBSHS (1)
• Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto puts his body on the line for charity (1)
• Hinchinbrook Schools Youth Parliament event (1)
• Hinchinbrook Schools Youth Parliament event a huge success (1)
• Home ownership to aide housing crisis (1)
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• housing fix to relieve SEQ bloat (1)
• I along with my fellow Katter’s Australian Party colleagues will continue to fight to have all remaining restrictions removed (1)
• I ride in honour of Judy Reardon who tragically passed away in a car accident on the Bruce Highway back in 2019 (1)
• If either disease gets in our red meat industries are finished (1)
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• In rural and regional Queensland there are limited new homes on the market and if you’re looking to build you’ll be waiting a few years due to construction wait times and delays with materials (1)
• Increase of saltwater crocodile sightings (1)
• increasing the age of criminal responsibility will only make the problem worse (1)
• Indigenous struggles laid bare (1)
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• Ingham (2)
• Ingham Sugar City Rodeo (3)
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• insurance premiums predicted to drop by 27 to 30 per cent in the coming months in high-risk cyclone-prone areas (1)
• International border between Cape York and the Torres Strait would be exposed to potentially catastrophic risk (1)
• investigating the introduction of workplace health and safety (WHS) regulations for quad bikes and side-by-side vehicles (1)
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• KAP believe in deeds not words (1)
• KAP has always and will continue to fight to protect the rights of law-abiding licensed firearms owners (1)
• KAP'S proposal for additional specialised training on preventing managing and prosecuting domestic violence incidents (1)
• KAP’s five-point policy to improve outcomes for Indigenous Queenslanders (1)
• Katter has made formal calls for the state’s Police and Youth Justice Ministers to personally visit and stay a few days in Mount Isa (1)
• Katter's Australian Party AGM (1)
• key stakeholders in Hinchinbrook who have been left out of initial consultation (1)
• Labor brain fart to appease the Greens movement in the Canberra bubble (1)
• Labor Government’s shallow attempt today to appear proactive on the biosecurity (1)
• Large win for Traeger roads (1)
• Lifting mandates is a win for common sense and democracy (1)
• Livestock industry in the Kennedy Electorate (1)
• Local Charities (1)
• local Foot and Mouth (FMD) and Lumpy Skin (LSD) disease outbreaks worsen (1)
• Local Labor MP’s M.I.A. on Crime (1)
• Local MPs a no-show as Indigenous struggles laid bare (1)
• long over-due CT scanner (1)
• Ludicrous vaccine mandates (1)
• Lumpy Skin Disease or Foot and Mouth Disease could wipe out our cattle and livestock industry (1)
• Lumpy Skin Disease or Foot and Mouth Disease in Indonesia (1)
• Maraka Festival (1)
• Medication Dispensary Changes (1)
• Members for Townsville Thuringowa and Mundingburra should be front and center right now addressing the current crime crisis (1)
• Mines (1)
• minimum quantity of ethanol (1)
• Mining (6)
• Minister fails to answer to Spanish mackerel fishers (1)
• Missing Labor MP's (1)
• more needs to be done to curb the trend of domestic and family violence that plagues our communities state-wide (1)
• MP Shane Knuth said the outbreak of FMD in Bali and Indonesia was a wake-up call to State and Federal Governments (1)
• MP Stands up for remote areas (1)
• Mr Dametto has criticised the Palaszczuk Labor Government for failing to ensure police numbers had kept up with population rises (1)
• Mr Dametto thanked the community for their generosity and support (1)
• Mr Dametto urged the Government to get behind KAP's Relocation Sentencing policy (1)
• Mr Dametto’s proposed amendments (1)
• Mr Furner claimed there was no legal requirement for the State Government to compensate fishers who livelihoods are likely to be decimated by quota cuts (1)
• Mr Katter has warned outbreaks could decimate the agricultural industry (1)
• Mr Katter’s office was informed that existing funds for cheek swab recruitment were not accessible due to federally-imposed contractual constraints on the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry (1)
• Multiple car jackings stolen vehicles and arrests of juvenile offenders on the weekend (1)
• National electricity grid (1)
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• Negated any respect owed to the cultural and religious backgrounds of players (1)
• New Construction Code a barrier to housing affordability (1)
• Nick Dametto (1)
• Nick Dametto ‘stuck in bed (1)
• No Labor MPs regarding Crime Issues (1)
• No one is going to produce urea in Australia (1)
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• NRL round was meant to be about women in the game (1)
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• OPPOSES BLANKET BANS ON ANIMAL CONTROLS (1)
• Our youth need boundaries (1)
• outrageous government constraints had stunted its reach (1)
• Over the past decade Townsville grew by 8.6% (1)
• Paid Peanuts for crops (1)
• Parliament has descended into an undemocratic opportunity (1)
• Peanut Industry (1)
• People of Townsville deserve better - Dametto (1)
• People should not be discriminated against or denied access to their workplaces on the basis of their health choices (1)
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• Pigs carry spread and transfer many diseases including noxious weed (1)
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• Pressure on Queensland’s public health system (1)
• Presumptuous for the Manly Sea Eagles to enforce blanket and potentially controversial rulings on its team without consultation (1)
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• Prioritise vaccination in areas of high tourism (1)
• protecting Australia’s own national interests (1)
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• Queensland biofuels industry (1)
• Queensland Royalties (1)
• Queensland’s commercial sector have only ever caught about 50 per cent of the quota allocated to them (1)
• Raise much-needed funds for the Pyjama Foundation (1)
• raising the criminal age (1)
• Rally (1)
• Recent outbreaks of the two highly contagious disease in Indonesia have put the nation’s meat industry on high alert (1)
• recidivist youth offending (1)
• Recreational fishers to report their Spanish mackerel catch (1)
• Recreational Fishing (2)
• red flag when the State Government changed the modelling to conduct the 2020 stock assessment (1)
• Red meat industries (1)
• Red meat industries facing diabolical risk (1)
• Reducing recreational and commercial catch limits of Spanish Mackerel (1)
• reduction in the Total Allowable Commercial Catch for commercial fishers would have devastating impacts on the commercial retail hospitality and tourism sectors (1)
• Reef (1)
• region’s social and housing shortage (1)
• Regional Banking Closures (1)
• Regional Riches (1)
• registry’s recruitment was limited to only the 6000 donors signed up to the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood each year (1)
• Regulations must be removed for a least 18 months (1)
• Reinsurance Pool (1)
• Religious belief persecution continues (1)
• religious freedom (1)
• Relocation Sentencing (6)
• Renewable Energy (3)
• renewable energy and critical minerals could only be delivered through CopperString connection to the national electricity grid (1)
• Republicanism (1)
• Requirement by Weapons Licensing Branch (1)
• Reserve Resource Policy would solve the issue long term (1)
• residents are six times more likely to have their car stolen in Mount Isa than they are in North Brisbane (1)
• Residents remain under attack as criminals rack up 62 vehicle thefts from homes (1)
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• Second round of consultations for Spanish Mackerel (1)
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• Society hijacked by ideological progressives who preach respect and inclusivity but only for those who comply with their narrative (1)
• Spanish Mackerel (3)
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• Spanish Mackerel Fishery debacle (1)
• Speed Cameras (1)
• Sport was not a space that needed to be hijacked by politics irrespective of the cause (1)
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• State Development and Regional Industries Committee (SDRIC) has failed to adequately address evidence from the public consultation (1)
• State Government regulations that will change the way they operate (1)
• State’s livestock industry (1)
• stronger sentencing tools for violent and recidivist youth offenders (1)
• Struggling to secure funds for essential life saving medical equipment (1)
• Sugar Cane Driver Shortage (1)
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• Take the bulls by the horns (1)
• Taxi Industry (2)
• Telecommunications (2)
• The cattle market has already been affected (1)
• the only way overfishing could have occurred was as a result of the State Government’s management (1)
• The public is sick and tired of having progressive causes shoved down their throats (1)
• the voice (6)
• This is as much about creating capacity in the rental market and enticing people to the regions as it is about giving people the opportunity to fast track getting into their first homes (1)
• This is deeply regressive and illiberal (1)
• This season DAF needs to be working extremely closely with commercial and recreational fishers (1)
• Those who prefer to stay out of this and similar debates are thrown to the wolves (1)
• Title Deed Overhaul (1)
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• Townsville Crime (2)
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• Travel ban may be a necessity as biosecurity risks grow (1)
• Travel from Ingham to Townsville to undergo a CT scan (1)
• Tribute (1)
• Truckie Shortage (1)
• Tully (1)
• two-year delay on the plans it has to ban CSSP in Queensland (1)
• Uncertainty about the future of the Spanish mackerel commercial fishers industry remains. (1)
• UNESCO (2)
• unity (1)
• Unvaccinated healthcare workers (1)
• Upgrade to fencing at NBSHS (1)
• Upgrades funded along Burke Developmental Road (1)
• Upgrades funded along Flinders Highway (1)
• Upgrades funded along Flinders Highway Gregory Developmental Road Gulf Developmental Road Burke Developmental Road and Hervey Range Road (1)
• Upgrades funded along Gregory Developmental Road (1)
• Upgrades funded along Gulf Developmental Road (1)
• Upgrades funded along Hervey Range Road (1)
• Vaccine mandate (2)
• Vessel Tracking Report tracks well overdue (1)
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• Waste Levy (1)
• Water (3)
• Water Security (1)
• We are still in limbo and the latest communication (1)
• We have achieved brilliant results here (1)
• We need to ensure we do not make difficult jobs even more difficult and more unsafe (1)
• Weapons licence applications (1)
• Weapons Licensing (2)
• Westpac (1)
• what North Queensland does have is a surplus of homes that may require renovations (1)
• Where the hell are they - Labor MP's (1)
• While innocent people are left to pick up the pieces after yet another weekend crime spree across Townsville the three local Labor MPs are nowhere to be seen or heard (1)
• While we can control the spread of FMD through border security we cannot do the same for LSD (1)
• Wokeism needs to stay out of sport (1)
• Written submissions from the public into the proposed quad bike and side-by-side vehicle regulations are being accepted until Wednesday 31 August (1)
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• Zero Emission Vehicle Strategy (1)