The major parties “fandangling” of the electoral distribution changes are intended to “break KAP” (Katter’s Australian Party) but, “may have opened the gate to the major parties own stupid, selfish destruction.”
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The heartbreak that Shane Knuth (his family have lived in Charters Towers since the 1890s) feels having his heartland brutally taken from him deserves all of our sympathies. But he is a fighter. He’ll come after the ALP/LNP. I wouldn’t like to be them.
North and Western Queensland feels revulsion.
Robbie Katter has an electorate now bigger than most countries on earth.
Charters Towers in 1000km from Mount Isa. Normanton is 1000km from Boulia.
We will rally behind these two fighters [Rob Katter and Shane Knuth] whose only crime is they refuse to be puppets for the Brisbane-based “Majors”.
There is only one small but significant force in the State Parliament -- the KAP.
It has forced the major parties to restore “arbitration” in the sugar industry and deliver “ethanol.”
Never in a billion years would either of those things happened if the KAP wasn’t there.
We tenaciously oppose the foreign ownership that the major parties delightfully call ‘foreign investment.’
The suits in tapestry towers must eliminate us to earn their giant agency fees for selling Australia and importing of goods once produced by Australians.
If they can eliminate the voice of the people they can keep their cozy little two-party system forever.
So take Shane Knuth’s seat out from under him, break it up into 3 other electorates, make Robbie Katter’s so big he’ll die of exhaustion.
We remain the only country on earth that demands all electorates be of equal populations. All others allow for distance, remoteness, sparseness and racial equality.
If it is Nuntisauq in Canada, Orkney Isles in Great Britain or even Porto Rico in the United States.
In the seats of Cook and Mount Isa the voices of the First Australians are stifled, buried by sparseness and remoteness.
The great commentators and founders of modern Democracy De Toqueville, John Stuart Mill talked constantly about the tyranny of the majority.
How does Brisbane have 200 overpasses and North Queensland with the same population has only 8?
How does Brisbane have 24km of tunnels, (Sydney only 14kms) and North Queensland has none?
How come south-east Queensland has ‘all’ of the power stations and we have none?
How come all our railways were sold off but Brisbane’s commuter system wasn’t?”
How come North Queensland has the highest unemployment rates in Australia and in Western Queensland, nearly every single town is dying?
I’m KAP and we know it, we say it, we live it.
No wonder they hate us.
