AS the election countdown went into the last few hours, the member for Kennedy was out on the streets of Mount Isa spruiking for votes.
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Assisted by his son and state member member for Mount Isa Robbie Katter, Bob Katter was campaigning hard at Mount Isa’s pre-poll centre before heading to the coast on Saturday.
“Edmonton (a suburb of Cairns) is by far our biggest booth now in Kennedy and Robbie’s here in Mount Isa which is the biggest voting centre, so I’ll go to Edmonton,” Mr Katter said.
“It’ll be hard yakka in Edmonton but then again our candidate in Cairns Brad Tassell is going like a house on fire. Whether he can make up the ground to get there I don’t know.”
Mr Katter said he was feeling confident about the election and admitted the appeal of his party was a negative one.
“I won’t hesitate to say that. People have had a gutful of the Liberal Party and Labor,” he said.
“You have vaccination to protect you against disease, an army to protect you against invasion, police to protect you against the bad guys, every country has economic protection but our extremist governments have removed it.
“Now we have wrecked every single industry. We have no capacity to make anything.”
Mr Katter rejected criticism saying he was anti foreign investment.
“It’s foreign ownership that is the problem,” he said.
Mr Katter said the Liberals were a “gunna do” government but they were determined to make things happen.
However he said he would work constructively with any government.
“Not everyone’s my cup of tea but I have good friends on both sides of parliament,” he said.
“The KAP has got to do the hard yakka but we’re ready for that.”