Bob Katter

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The Honourable
Bob Katter
MP
Bob Katter.jpg
Official portrait, 1993
Father of the House
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 April 2022

Katter is known as an unabashed social conservative and agrarian socialist. [42] Like his father, his views on economic matters echo 1950s "Old Labor" policy as it was before the 1955 DLP split. He opposes privatisation and economic deregulation and strongly supports traditional Country Party statutory marketing.[ citation needed ] In an interview in 1994, he cited his political heroes as ALP figures Jack Lang and Ted Theodore and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, but said Lang was ultimately a failure and he was "aiming to be a John McEwen". [43] The sobriquet 'Mad Katter' was coined by his opponents to describe his nationalistic developmentalism. [44] [45] [46]

As of 2020, Katter described himself as belonging to the "hard left," citing his continuing membership of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union. [47] [13] In a 2022 interview with The Chaser , Katter claimed that he had never pledged allegiance to the Queen of Australia when entering parliament. [48]

Abortion

In 1980, Katter seconded a motion by Don Lane calling on the Queensland state government to "protect the lives of unborn Queensland children being killed by abortion". [49]

In 2006, Katter voted against a federal bill which would increase the availability of abortion drugs. [50]

Environment

Katter has opposed enacting climate change legislation to control emissions. [51] He advocates for measures that reduce carbon footprints. [52] Katter has championed the mandating of ethanol fuel content. He has additionally pioneered protests against imported bananas, and is an opponent of the concentration of the Australian supermarket industry amongst Coles and Woolworths. [53]

Gun laws

An opponent of the tougher gun control laws introduced in the wake of the 1996 massacre in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Katter was accused in 2001 of signing a petition promoted by the Citizens Electoral Council (CEC), an organisation that claims the Port Arthur massacre was a conspiracy. He has stated that he always and still believes there was no conspiracy. [54]

Immigration

In 2017, Katter called for a "Trump-like travel ban" in Australia after a New South Welshman was arrested on terrorism charges. [55] That same year, Katter repeated a pledge used by the far-right organisation "Proud Boys", including that he was "a proud western chauvinist". When asked about the incident when it was publicised in 2019, Katter distanced himself from the group, saying "I don't know who this group is or anything about it". [56] [57]

Indigenous Australians

In 1987, as Queensland minister for Aboriginal and Islander affairs, Katter credited the state government with reducing Aboriginal deaths in custody by introducing "new detention procedures to divert people arrested for minor offences away from traditional custody after a three-hour cooling off period". [58] In 1989 he opposed installing condom vending machines in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to reduce the spread of AIDS, describing the plan instead as an attempt at eugenics, or "racist genocide". [59]

Katter is also an opponent of voter identification laws, denouncing the Coalition's proposed introduction of them in 2021 as a racist system that would disenfranchise Aboriginal communities. [60] In 2022, he announced that would not support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal, but did believe that the indigenous people of Australia deserved a referendum on how they should be represented in parliament. [61]

North Queensland statehood

Proposed flag for North Queensland designed by Katter in 2020. North Queensland Flag (Bob Katter Proposal).svg
Proposed flag for North Queensland designed by Katter in 2020.

Katter supports North Queensland statehood. [63]

LGBT rights

In November 1989, Katter claimed there were almost no homosexuals in North Queensland. He promised to walk backwards from Bourke across his electorate if they represented more than 0.001 percent of the population. [64] [65] Katter also said "mind you, if there are more, then I might take to walking backwards everywhere!" Katter voted against the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act, 1994 (Cth), which decriminalised homosexuality in Tasmania. [66] He does not support same-sex marriage. [67] His response to the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey result was the subject of international attention, as in response he declared that the issue of crocodiles killing people in North Queensland was more pressing than same-sex marriage. Therefore he declared that "I ain't spending any time on it!" on the latter issue. [68] In December 2017, Katter was one of only four members of the House of Representatives to oppose the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 legalising same-sex marriage in Australia. [69]

Personal life

Katter occasionally identifies as being an Aboriginal Australian and has described himself as a blackfella in federal parliament, in interviews, during television appearances and at public events. [70] [71] [72] [73] [74] Katter claims that in his youth he was accepted as a member of the Kalkadoon tribe in the Cloncurry area, otherwise known as the "Curry mob", and said he has long since felt a deep connection with Aboriginal people. [71] [75]

His son Robbie has been a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since 2012, representing Mount Isa from 2012 to 2017, and Traeger since 2017. [76] He represents much of the territory that his father represented in state parliament.

Katter supports the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League (NRL). [77] [78]

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