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Bob Katter s big Queensland power line a family affair

Save Share On May 13 last year, in the House of Representatives, Bob Katter started rapping. “Cough up, cough up the money; make money, make money,” he chanted during a question in question time that was really a plug for a pet project, a giant electricity line stretching across northern Queensland. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Energy Minister Angus Taylor both got the joke – and the message. Katter, who is becoming more powerful by the month, wants the government to provide subsidised finance for CopperString 2.0, a $1.7 billion transmission line that would connect the inland mining town of Mount Isa to the national electricity market near Townsville.

I m a grenade with the pin pulled , Bob Katter tells PM

‘I’m a grenade with the pin pulled’, Bob Katter tells PM Save Share Independent MP Bob Katter has likened himself to a “grenade with the pin pulled” during a meeting with Scott Morrison in which he listed a series of demands in return for shoring up the government. One of these included an extra $500 million for a power project in his north Queensland electorate of Kennedy. Bob Katter has met Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg to seek a quid pro quo.  Dominic Lorrimer After Craig Kelly defected to the crossbench last month, costing the government its working majority on the floor of the House of Representatives, Mr Morrison quickly sought the support of Mr Katter in the event Mr Kelly voted against the government.

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