The coronation of the Katters took place in Brisbane on Monday when Robbie Katter's reign began with reins given to him by his father Bob, ever with an eye to good publicity.
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This announcement is not to be confused with Bob Katter's retirement which is not happening any time soon.
"I assure you, I ain't leaving the arena and I'm certainly not handing them my sword and shield over either," he said.
But Mr Katter wants to spend more time in the background dealing with enemies such as "the free marketeers and the lily-pad left" leaving Robbie to become the KAP's new front man.
Robbie is the third Katter of that name to become monarch of his domain (and there could even be a Robert IV in waiting in the years to come).
The half-century-old North Queensland dynasty was started when the late Bob Katter Senior (Robert I) won the seat of Kennedy in 1966 and held it until 1990.
After a gap of three years, Bob Katter Junior (Robert II) won it back in 1993 and no one has been able to take it out of his cold, but very much alive, hands ever since.
Mr Katter has had an iconoclastic political journey, a mouthy and stunt-filled odyssey that saw him withdraw from the National Party in 2001 and found his own party Katter's Australian Party 10 years later.
His son Robbie (Robert III) emerged from council politics to win the state seat of Mount Isa in 2012 and has held it ever since. State MP Shane Knuth also jumped ship from the Nationals to the KAP, and he and a third MP Nick Dametto won election to Queensland parliament in 2017.
The three state MPs map perfectly onto Bob Katter's federal seat and therein lies the problem of how to turn this North Queensland mentality into something that might resonate with the voters elsewhere
A clue might be in Bob's 2012 book An Incredible Race of People, where he talks about his heroes: inter-war Labor politician Edward "Red Ted" Theodore who tried to lift Australia out of the Great Depression by expanding the money supply and post-war Country party leader John "Black Jack" McEwen, the arch protectionist.
This mix-and-match populist political style is not too distant from that perfected by Donald Trump.