Bob Katter's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
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date: 2026-02-05T22:05:58+00:00
items: National Security | Constituency Statements | House debates
items: Water Infrastructure | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Perth: Attack | Motions | House debates
items: Water Infrastructure | Statements by Members | House debates
items: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail | Bills | House debates
items: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
items: Political Advertising | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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National Security | Constituency Statements | House debates
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description: Excuse me for reading this document out, but it's one of the rare occasions that I'm going to do it. What's happening in our northern waters right now should worry every single person in this...
encoded: Excuse me for reading this document out, but it's one of the rare occasions that I'm going to do it. What's happening in our northern waters right now should worry every single person in this country. Illegal boats are coming into our northern waters in numbers we have never seen before. They're coming quietly, they're coming regularly, and they're coming because nobody is watching the gate anymore. And why aren't we watching? Because governments have regulated our fishing industry out of existence. Australia has the longest coastline of any country on Earth, yet it has the lowest per kilometre fishing effort of any coastline on Earth. For generations, our commercial fishermen were the eyes and ears of the north. They knew every tide channel and every strange light on the horizon. If something moved that shouldn't have been there, they knew about it. But they've been pushed off the waters. We strangled them with paperwork, bans and city based ideology, we shut down gillnets, we sidelined trawlers, and we told the very people that protected our coastline for free to stay at home. Now, Australian seas are empty—no, they're not empty. They're filled with people who are not Australians. Karumba had over 240 boats licensed to operate and probably another 240 boats on North Queensland's east coast. Now, I doubt whether there are 200 licences in the gulf and the east coast. Carl von Clausewitz's chilling aphorism is that 'a people without land will seek a land without people'. Similarly, people without seas will seek seas without people. Ask the First Australians how they fared, or ask the Red Indians, the Aztecs or the Zulus. When you don't have Australians on the water, someone else will fill the void. Illegal fishing boats, people smugglers, foreign interests testing how far they can push—they're not stupid. We need our trawlers and our netters back doing the job our Border Force is clearly not resourced to do. Every Australian fishing vessel is a moving surveillance pl…
date: 2026-02-05T09:36:00+00:00

Water Infrastructure | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: They've been waiting for eight years!
encoded: They've been waiting for eight years!
date: 2026-02-04T15:00:00+00:00

Water Infrastructure | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: He's been to Hughenden twice—the Prime Minister.
encoded: He's been to Hughenden twice—the Prime Minister.
date: 2026-02-04T15:00:00+00:00

Water Infrastructure | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: Treasurer, young mothers today must have a paying job and be a wife, cook, family bookkeeper, kid chauffeur, house cleaner, laundry lady and go to church on Sunday. Not surprisingly, when 20...
encoded: Treasurer, young mothers today must have a paying job and be a wife, cook, family bookkeeper, kid chauffeur, house cleaner, laundry lady and go to church on Sunday. Not surprisingly, when 20 Australians die, only 15 will be born. Advance Australia Fair is Hughenden's irrigation scheme. Fifteen Hughendens would create 3,000 farms, 10,000 owner-operator businesses and 100,000 homes with backyards. Hughenden has had $170 million allocated now for eight years. Queensland dithers. Will you create a water authority and call tenders? Treasurer, you won't get a portrait; you'll get a statue!
date: 2026-02-04T14:59:00+00:00

Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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date: 2026-02-03T18:08:00+00:00

Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: Could I just interrupt for a moment and point out these great beers from North Queensland that have my picture on them?
encoded: Could I just interrupt for a moment and point out these great beers from North Queensland that have my picture on them?
date: 2026-02-03T18:08:00+00:00

Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I could tell a thousand stories, but I have just a quick one. I was in the pub at a little place called Garradunga in North Queensland, and I was going to a Lions Club meeting. I had my Lions...
encoded: I could tell a thousand stories, but I have just a quick one. I was in the pub at a little place called Garradunga in North Queensland, and I was going to a Lions Club meeting. I had my Lions badge on. Someone said, 'I didn't know you were a Lion.' The bloke across the bar said, 'Mate, he's been a lion all of his life,' and everyone roared laughing at my expense. It's fun, but it's also ironic that the ALP is moving this, because the ALP was founded in the pubs in North Queensland—you know, Barcaldine, Cloncurry and also western New South Wales. But I would say 'Red Ted' Theodore was the real founder of the labour movement in Australia. The story is told about him and 'Big Bill' McCormack—about 'Red Ted' Theodore and 'Big Bill' McCormack. He goes into the pub and says to one of the blokes drinking there, 'Tommy, you haven't taken out a ticket'. It's a union ticket. He just starts writing him out the ticket, and Tommy says, 'Stick it up'—well, we know the rest of 'stick it up'. 'Big Bill' McCormack comes up and says, 'Did you say to Ted that he should so-and-so and so-and-so?' and he says, 'Yes, I'll say it to you too.' So McCormack grabs him by the hair and punches him in the mouth. He goes down. He kicks him all around the floor, then lifts him up by the belt and says, 'Now take the bloody ticket out,' so he takes the ticket out. He says, 'Well, why didn't you take it out in the first place, Tommy? It would have saved you a lot of trouble,' and Tommy says, 'Oh, well, you didn't go to the trouble of explaining it to me properly, like Bill did.' He was bashing the hell out of him. I tell that story to indicate that the labour movement—and both sides of the house would agree—has made a magnificent contribution to the people of Australia. One in 30 of us that went into cane fields never came back out alive. One in 30 of us that went down into the mines never came back up alive, until the Labor movement came along. I'm very proud to say that my family were very well off…
date: 2026-02-03T17:59:00+00:00

Perth: Attack | Motions | House debates
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description: I've remained incredibly silent about these issues. I was the minister in Queensland for six years. The First Nations people, as they are referred to here in this place, were kind enough to name...
encoded: I've remained incredibly silent about these issues. I was the minister in Queensland for six years. The First Nations people, as they are referred to here in this place, were kind enough to name the freehold titles issued under my administration the 'Katter leases'. My son, in a meeting, said: 'Cattle leases? There are no cattle on any of these places.' I said, 'Not cattle—it's Katter, your name!' Now, that was because I simply went out to the 24 community areas in Queensland that are blackfella areas—they're not whitefella areas; they're blackfella areas—and I said, 'What do you want us to do with the land?' Do you know what they said? We put up all the alternatives on a big board: you can have tribal ownership; you can have community ownership; you can have local government ownership; you can have private ownership, the same as all the other places in Australia—whatever you want. Over 3,000 people voted. Three voted against private ownership, and the other 3,000 voted for private ownership. They did not vote for tribal ownership. What does this place do? It moves for tribal ownership. Well, I don't know about you, but I'd be flat-out naming all the people in my bloody family tree. They come from everywhere. I'm dark and I come from Cloncurry, so I identify as a Murri pretty often, and no-one would object to that—'Murri from the Curry'. You said that you were going to look after the land for them, right? You're going to protect nature so that it'll be kept the way it was. Well, it may have passed your knowledge that these people are starving to death. Their life expectancy in this country has slipped from 54 to 49 years of age, when the rest of us enjoy 82 years of age. If you want to know why, it's because you won't let them own property the same way everyone else on Earth owns property. The Mystery of Capital was one of the most important books written in the last half-century. The World Bank economist Hernando de Soto has said, 'The creation of capital comes fro…
date: 2026-02-03T17:16:00+00:00

Water Infrastructure | Statements by Members | House debates
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description: Every year in Queensland under the old Country Party government, we built a major dam. I will quote but three examples. There were 800 people living in a little town called Griffith in New South...
encoded: Every year in Queensland under the old Country Party government, we built a major dam. I will quote but three examples. There were 800 people living in a little town called Griffith in New South Wales. They built a dam. Now there are 28,000 people living and making a very good living in Griffith. There were, ironically, 831 people living in a town called Mareeba. They built a dam, and now there are 26,000 people living in Mareeba, all on very, very high incomes. God bless them. There was a third town in Queensland—a little railway siding, Emerald—that had 1,100 people and it now has 17,000 people. There has not been a dam built in Queensland in 33 years—or whatever it is since the Bjelke-Petersen government fell. Bjelke-Petersen was stabbed in the back by his own mob. Not one single dam has been built. I represent half of Australia's water. Half of the water that falls on Australia falls in the Kennedy electorate. We were building dams, and now we've stopped building dams. The water just runs down the street, taking millions of tonnes of topsoil— (Time expired)
date: 2026-02-03T13:39:00+00:00

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail | Bills | House debates
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description: Speaking to the amendment, this is all about 15 people being murdered. Why were they murdered? Because the immigration department allowed some extremely dangerous people into this country. So the...
encoded: Speaking to the amendment, this is all about 15 people being murdered. Why were they murdered? Because the immigration department allowed some extremely dangerous people into this country. So the first people who should be held to account are the immigration authorities. When this person was put on an ASIO watchlist, there was no effort made to remove registered high-powered firearms from that person, so the people who were enforcing the ASIO watchlist are the second group of people who were responsible in the end for the deaths of 15 innocent Australian people. This happens in the background of what happened many years ago. In the year that that happened, Queensland had no gun laws at all. I went in to buy a pair of socks and ended up buying an AK-47 rifle and 350 rounds of ammunition, which was a lot better than those socks. There were no gun laws at all. We had eight deaths with guns in Queensland. With draconian legislation in Victoria, they had 54 deaths with guns in that year. So much for your gun laws! You might think twice about shooting somebody if that person can shoot back. Whenever men of great wisdom— Government members interjecting— Here are the men of great wisdom! I said 'men of great wisdom', and they all spoke up. When the men of great wisdom sat down and wrote documents by which we live—the Bill of Rights in Britain, the Magna Carta, the American Declaration of Independence, the French declaration of independence—every single one of them put in the right to bear arms, which you want to remove. You say you've got greater wisdom than all of those people. That's what you're saying. I'll tell you, mate—you haven't. If they get their way, then the only people who will have guns are the people in uniforms, and we know what sort of society that is where the only people who have guns are the people in uniforms. North Dakota has the highest gun ownership in the world. The last time I looked to find out how many deaths there were with guns, they had no deat…
date: 2026-01-20T10:43:00+00:00

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail | Bills | House debates
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description: I move: 28 At the end of subsection 36(1) (1) insert: ; (e) A person put on ASIO watchlist has his firearms automatically revoked
encoded: I move: 28 At the end of subsection 36(1) (1) insert: ; (e) A person put on ASIO watchlist has his firearms automatically revoked
date: 2026-01-20T10:43:00+00:00

Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Firearms and Customs Laws) Bill 2026; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: Mr Speaker, do I have the right to move an amendment?
encoded: Mr Speaker, do I have the right to move an amendment?
date: 2026-01-20T10:29:00+00:00

Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
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description: My uncle was killed in a football game, and for the next 50 years of his life no-one could ever say my Uncle Norman's name in of my grandfather, because he'd just go off and vanish, lock a door...
encoded: My uncle was killed in a football game, and for the next 50 years of his life no-one could ever say my Uncle Norman's name in of my grandfather, because he'd just go off and vanish, lock a door and cease to be with us. Right until the day he died, no-one could mention Uncle Norman's name in front of my grandfather. Now, how infinitely worse the pain must be if your child is just 10 years of age. I have a rage in my soul, and it's very hard for me to talk nicely, because I just have this passionate rage. Some of these people were demonstrating outside of the Queensland parliament with their usual anti-Jewish hate. And two of our members of parliament from the party I belong to just couldn't bear it, and they ripped down their signs and got into a melee. Both our blokes look after themselves pretty good, and they really enjoyed the physical fracas before they were dragged off by the police. But there should be a rage in our souls if you hate any group in society. Obviously, I run into this sometimes with our First Australian people. But going back to Matilda, 'Waltzing Matilda' is our national song, and I just wish more people knew the song 'Waltzing Matilda'. It was written in my hometown of Cloncurry. In my hometown, we created Qantas. We created the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Dame Mary Gilmore is buried in Cloncurry; she's on the $10 note. Matilda can't be a more Australian name. These people came to this country, they loved this country, and it gave them so much that they didn't have before, so they named their daughter Matilda. And her name is now one of the names of the people that were murdered on this day and in this tragedy. A great tragedy should lead to a result that ensures, to the best of our ability, that it doesn't happen again, and we will be talking about that tomorrow. So I just wish for North Queensland—we don't have a lot of Jewish people in North Queensland, but two of them I know very well, the Kamslers. They and two other families created Cair…
date: 2026-01-19T17:32:00+00:00

Political Advertising | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: Alright. I withdraw that aspect of the question.
encoded: Alright. I withdraw that aspect of the question.
date: 2025-11-06T15:05:00+00:00

Political Advertising | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: 'Untruths'.
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date: 2025-11-06T15:05:00+00:00

Political Advertising | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: My question is to be Minister representing the Special Minister of State. An infamous evil in history—and I quote—devised his movement: 'Repeat a lie continuously, continually and...
encoded: My question is to be Minister representing the Special Minister of State. An infamous evil in history—and I quote—devised his movement: 'Repeat a lie continuously, continually and constantly, and people will believe it's the truth even though it is a lie.' The LNP Townsville are obviously fellow travellers. The Hinchinbrook by-election has had the worst lying I've encountered in 25 years in politics, and that's saying a lot. The LNP said, 'We support castle law.' They've opposed its introduction three times. 'We're not going to abolish coal.' They've kept the coal tax, which will abolish coal. Three mineshave effectively closed. The LNP said KAP candidate Molachino had been for Labor. We have the text messages showing the LNP approached him as their first-choice candidate for Hinchinbrook. Minister, do we have an avenue to stop flagrant, unconscionable LNP lying?
date: 2025-11-06T15:05:00+00:00

Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I'm speaking on the Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025. I would like to quote two people—one is one of the soldiers that has seen the most active warfare...
encoded: I'm speaking on the Defence Amendment (Parliamentary Joint Committee on Defence) Bill 2025. I would like to quote two people—one is one of the soldiers that has seen the most active warfare than any other soldier in Australian history, probably, and the other one is a very close friend of mine, a Cloncurry boy, whose best friend was one of my best friends. To the soldier with great experience, I said, 'What do you think about the new rifles and the light calibre of the bullet?' He said, 'It stinks.' I said, 'Why?' He said: 'When you squeeze the trigger, I want the bloke dead. The idea that it will only wound him and will take three men out of the front line—in warfare, that is not how anyone looks at it. When I squeeze the trigger, I want him dead.' Now, the last head of the armed forces is reputed to have given orders that they were not to use the word 'kill'. This person has spent $40,000 million buying patrol boats that have no ordinance. They can't kill anybody. Well, what is the bloody use of having them? They're supposed to be our front line of defence and they can't kill anyone! They've got a machine gun! So we spent $40,000 million buying 15 machine guns. My platoon—in two wars, we were on 24-hour call-up to fight in Borneo and, later, in Vietnam—had 23 machine guns amongst the 32 of us, and he spent $40,000 million buying 15 machine guns. The man should have been jailed. And he issued instructions that they are not to use the word 'kill'. Well, I tell you, I was a weapons instructor for about 11 years of my life, as most of us were at my age. I was born in 1945, the year the war ended. Obviously, no-one was going to be doing bayonet charges in the sixties or seventies. That was not going to happen, so why were we doing bayonet drills? You charged and you let out a bloodcurdling scream and you plunged your bayonet into the dummy and you screamed out 'en garde!' and then charged the next dummy. What was all that about? It was about training people to kill wit…
date: 2025-11-05T12:02:00+00:00

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title: Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025, National Environmental Protection Agency Bill 2025, Environment Information Australia Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Customs Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Excise Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (General Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Restoration Charge Imposition) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
description: You've got the best silicon deposits in the world.
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date: 2025-11-05T18:18:00+00:00

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title: Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025, National Environmental Protection Agency Bill 2025, Environment Information Australia Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Customs Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Excise Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (General Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Restoration Charge Imposition) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
description: I'll move on. What is happening here is about my ownership of land and the undermining of our freedoms, our integrity, our 'comfortableness' and our ease. They are being taken away and given to a...
encoded: I'll move on. What is happening here is about my ownership of land and the undermining of our freedoms, our integrity, our 'comfortableness' and our ease. They are being taken away and given to a bunch of bureaucrats sitting on their backsides in air conditioned comfort in Canberra. They're going to tell me what I can and can't do with my land. Who is better qualified to look after the land—a fifth-generation grazier, or fifth-generation cane farmer, or some beggar sitting on his backside here who's a fifth-generation public servant in Canberra? Who'd know more about it? Why is he living in Canberra in air-conditioned comfort, and why is he or she living out there in the wilderness? It's because they love the wilderness. That's why they're living there. Why are you living in Sydney? It's because you're terrified of the wilderness! You don't understand it. You've never set foot in it. You've never lived there. You've never aspired to make your country better off than it is. It would be just wonderful if these people read some books and had an understanding of history. The authoritarian government in Britain said, 'I own your land,' to the people of America, and the Americans said: 'Hey, wait on a minute. I own my land. That's my farm. That's where I run my cattle. That's my land!' The authoritarian government in England said, 'No—we own the land!' That's exactly what you're saying today: 'We own the land, not you. We, the authoritarian government, the ruling class, own the land.' I pose the question again: who would know more about the land—love it and protect it? Would it be the people who live on the land or the person sitting on his shiny backside here in Canberra? Your proposition is that the person sitting on his shiny backside here in Canberra knows best, rather than the person that's living there. I'll tell you your collection of achievements. You brought in some bugs to solve a problem that was there. The bugs ran amok and created enormous problems, so you br…
date: 2025-11-05T18:02:00+00:00

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title: Environment Protection Reform Bill 2025, National Environmental Protection Agency Bill 2025, Environment Information Australia Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Customs Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Excise Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (General Charges Imposition) Bill 2025, Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Restoration Charge Imposition) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
description: She has planted thousands of trees! Where?
encoded: She has planted thousands of trees! Where?
date: 2025-11-05T18:02:00+00:00