Kennedy MP Bob Katter is not happy the much criticised Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility has been extended for another four years.
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Mr Katter said he nearly choked on his condensed-milk and arrowroot biscuits when he saw the NAIF would receive $40m in the budget to administer the fund over the next four years, when it has only released $160m in the last five years.
"How can it cost that much money for a bunch of bureaucrats who couldn't even giveaway a prize-bull to a bushie in Boulia?" Mr Katter said.
"The NAIF is the embodiment of everything that is wrong in modern government in Australia; suits sitting in an office patting each other on the back when they can barely even push a penny out the door."
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Mr Katter reiterated the KAP had shovel-ready, industry-enabling, make-money projects ready to go including the North Johnstone Transfer, Copperstring 2.0, an alternate road from Mareeba-to-Cairns and the Hughenden Dam.
Last month the NAIF indicated support for CopperString which also got money in the budget and an implementation agreement signed Wednesday by the state government and while the Northern Australia wants to make NAIF more flexible and widen the scope, Mr Katter said the only real change that seemed to be coming through was more bureaucracy.
"The National Party have done this country a huge disservice," he said.
"They have sat on $5 billion for six years and there has not been a single significant project undertaken in the north."
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