Robbie Katter

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Robbie Katter
MP
Robbie Katter with hat at lookout (cropped).jpg
Katter in 2015
Leader of the Katter's Australian Party
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 February 2020
Relations Katter family
Parent(s) Bob Katter Jr.
Susan O'Rourke
Relatives Bob Katter Sr. (grandfather)
Carl Katter (half–uncle)
Alex Douglas (cousin)
Residence(s) Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Education St. Columba Catholic College
Alma mater Queensland University of Technology
Occupation
Profession
Website robbiekatter.com.au
Other offices

Robert Carl Ignatius Katter (born 3 March 1977) is an Australian politician. He serves as the member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Traeger, having previously represented Mount Isa from 2012 to 2017. [4] He is the leader of Katter's Australian Party, having taken over from his father Bob Katter in February 2020.

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Biography

Early life

Katter was born on 3 March 1977 in North Queensland. [4] [5] His father is Bob Katter, the federal member for Kennedy and founder of Katter's Australian Party, and his grandfather Bob Katter Sr. was also a federal MP. He received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Property Economics from the Queensland University of Technology. [4]

Early career

Katter started his career as a mine worker in Mount Isa, [4] [5] before working as a property valuer for fifteen years and running a small business in Mount Isa. [6]

Political career (2012–present)

He won Mount Isa at the 2012 state election, pushing Labor incumbent Betty Kiernan into third place. [5] [7] He capitalised on his family's name recognition in the area. Mount Isa was virtually coextensive with the western portion of his father's federal seat of Kennedy, and much of the eastern portion of the seat was once part of the elder Katter's old state seat of Flinders.

After his election to the Legislative Assembly, he became Queensland leader of his father's party, but on 29 November 2012, it was announced that he had been succeeded as leader by Ray Hopper, and would become the party's "parliamentary secretary". [8] Following Hopper's defeat at the 2015 election, Katter once again became state leader. [9]

The state electorate of Mount Isa was abolished in 2017, and Katter followed most of his constituents into the new seat of Traeger. The new seat was essentially the northern, more urbanised portion of Katter's former seat, and is based on Mount Isa. The seat was created as a comfortably safe KAP seat, and Katter won it handily.

He serves on the boards of the Laura Johnson Home, a retirement home, and the Southern Gulf Catchments, an environmental organisation. [4]

In February 2020, he was appointed leader of the Katter's Australian Party. [10]

At the 2020 Queensland state election Katter retained his seat of Traeger with 58.85 per cent of first preference votes and 74.72 per cent of the two-party-preferred vote. [11]

Political views

Robbie Katter is an agrarian socialist, beginning a speech in the Queensland Parliament in 2017 by saying "The members opposite refer to agrarian socialism as though it is a bad thing. I wear it like a badge."

In 2020, Katter called for the federal government to buy back Qantas Airline. [12] [13]

In April 2022, Katter said he will move a bill to ban transgender athletes from women's sport in the state. [14] In May 2022, he proposed a motion which was voted down 49 votes to 33. The opposition Liberal National Party of Queensland voted with him. [15]

Katter advocates for North Queensland statehood. [16] On May 22, 2024, Katter introduced a motion in the Queensland Parliament that would separate North Queensland from the rest of the state, and called for a Referendum to be held in the North to allow residents to have their say on the matter. Katter claimed that the region was being neglected by the state's South East, particularly in the areas of investment, infrastructure and disaster relief. [17]

Katter is anti abortion and has made a pledge to introduce a Private Members Bill into the post election 2024 Queensland Parliament [18]

Personal life

Katter is married to Daisy (née Hatfield), [19] a former journalist. They met when Daisy was working for WIN Television in Townsville on an assignment to interview him. They have one child, Peaches Grace Katter, born 2020. [20] [21]

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  3. ↑ MacIntyre, Esther (4 September 2017). "Wedding bells for Daisy Hatfield and Robbie Katter".
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  6. ↑ Interview with Robbie Katter MP, The Betoota Advocate Podcast, Ep 130.
  7. ↑ "Mount Isa – Queensland Votes 2012 – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  8. ↑ Hurst, Daniel (29 November 2012). "LNP defector clinches Katter party leadership". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
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  14. ↑ "Katter wants trans athletes banned in QLD". 22 April 2022.
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Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by Member for Mount Isa
2012–2017		Abolished
New seat Member for Traeger
2017–present		Incumbent
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Preceded by Leader of Katter's Australian Party in Queensland
2012		Succeeded by
Preceded by Leader of Katter's Australian Party in Queensland
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