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IF a senior public servant is called to appear in at a Senate committee meeting, we can be sure Senator Malcolm Roberts will be the one asking the most relevant questions. That was the case when Senator Roberts recently questioned government officials and Indigenous Affairs representatives during a committee hearing over the effectiveness and accountability The post Senate committee ‘terror’ Roberts exposes $40bil. Indigenous gravy train appeared first on cairnsnews.org.

August 31, 2026: In a scathing rebuke to transport regulators who are risking remote food supplies by banning trucks on outback roads so rough that they are unworthy of bitumen vehicle roadworthy standards, Kennedy MP Bob Katter has requested the Prime Minister intervene to ensure a sustainable solution to the bureaucratic crisis that threatens to The post NHVR grounds remote truck fleets, risking food supplies and regional jobs appeared first on cairnsnews.org.

While Border Force cracks down on tobacco shops across Queensland selling tonnes of illicit tobacco under the counter, cheap tobacco (chop chop) is now hard to find. Member for Hill Shane Knuth is calling on Queensland  and Federal Governments to reinstate a regulated tobacco industry on the Atherton Tablelands, citing economic opportunity, agricultural heritage, and the The post Mareeba could again grow the bulk of Australia’s tobacco appeared first on cairnsnews.org.

No rights of appeal exist for landowners under new laws to seize prime agricultural land The KAP are clearly now the only party in Queensland prepared to push back against big gas companies and stick up for the rights of farmers and indeed all landholders in Queensland, the KAP leader, Robbie Katter has said, after The post Qld LNP government ‘shifty’ over new powers to seize land appeared first on cairnsnews.org.

THE woke corporate class running our councils and state and federal bureaucracies have created a disaster that is now consuming private property in forced sales. Councils in particular are saving themselves from the skyrocketing debt and inflation created by big-spending Labor governments by liquidating private properties. Across the nation, but in Victoria especially, the effects The post Albo in denial as state and councils steal property by hiking rates and ‘levies’ appeared first on cairnsnews.org.