The Katter family is prominent in north Queensland, with Mr Katter and his father, the late Bob Katter Senior, representing the rural seat of Kennedy for a combined 48 years (24 years each). He later joined the Country Party, now the Liberal National Party. ... Bob Katter MP reiterated his son’s threats of a civil war. Carl, Richard and Bernadette are his children from his second marriage. Robert Bellarmine Carl Katter (born 22 May 1945) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1993. His sons Bob Katter Jr. and Carl Katter as well as grandson Robbie have also been involved in politics. PETRIA WALLACE: The Katter family has iconic status in the vast electorate of Kennedy in northern Queensland. "[6], Back in Cloncurry, he worked in his family's businesses, and as a "labourer in the Mt. Robert Carl Ignatius Katter (born 3 March 1977) is an Australian politician. McManus and the ACTU's electoral strategy spectacularly backfired. Genealogy for Frederick W. "Fritz" Katter, FK (1855 - 1944) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Bob Sr was the former Nats member for Kennedy and father to the current member for Kennedy, Robert (Bob Jr) Carl Katter. [3] Bob Katter Sr. was a member of the executive of the State Service Union in Queensland and was also a member of the executive of the tally clerks division of the Federated Clerks' Union of Australia in Queensland. 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He was a Councillor from 1946 to 1967 and was its Chairman from 1948 to 1951 and again from 1964 to 1967.[6][7]. AGE 50s May Go By Used To Live In Related To Bob Katter Burlingame, CA • San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL • Boston, MA Calvin K Katter • Mary A Johnson • Laura C Fink • Sandra K Weiskirch View Details View Details. A 1969 redistribution cut out Labor-voting Bowen, replacing it with conservative-leaning Charters Towers. In 1989 Bob Katter infamously claimed that there were no homosexuals living in his electorate - promising to walk 'backwards from Bourke to Brisbane' if any were found. His parents were federal MP Bob Katter Sr. and Joy Katter, and he is a member of a pioneering Queensland family. Katter, then a university student, came forward more than 40 years later and claimed his involvement, saying that it was "an intellectual reaction against Beatlemania. [3] He began legal studies at the University of Queensland and resided at St Leo's College (when the college was at Wickham Terrace). Bob Katter has been the Federal Member for Kennedy since 1993, following a highly successful career in State politics where he held four Ministerial positions. He follows in his father's footsteps as the Member for Kennedy, with Hon. He resigned from the National Party in the lead-up to the 2001 federal election, and has since been re-elected four more times as an independent and twice for his own party. Maverick federal MP Bob Katter has reluctantly passed his party's leadership reins over to son Robbie after nearly a decade in the saddle. Katter was born in Cloncurry, Queensland, the son of Robert Carl Katter, the member for Kennedy from 1966–90, and his wife, Mabel. It is time for the Federal Government to get serious with this half-wit Victorian Premier who is a seriously dangerous person, Kennedy MHR Bob Katter has said. Robbie Katter taking over the reins of the party is a natural progression for the family, who have been stalwarts in Queensland politics since the 1960s. Katter is known for his social conservatism, and is frequently described as a "maverick" by the media. "1998 Qld House of Representatives Results", "2001 Qld House of Representatives Results", "2004 Qld House of Representatives Results", "2007 Qld House of Representatives Results", "2010 Qld House of Representatives Results", "Rural Lawmakers Hold Key in Australian Election", "Katter's party to 'unashamedly represent agriculture, "Katter puts the fun into party briefing", "The Mad Katter .. and the Frankston Eviction Debacle", "The joys and pains of a well hung parliament", "How does Bob Katter vote on issues that matter to you? While at university, Katter served as Vice President of the University Law Society, and was President of St Leo's College. 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Despite his many years as a member of the Country/National Party, he was said to have lived and died a Labor man. At the time of the election, Labor held the seat with a 13 percent majority. He served as Minister for the Army in the McMahon Government from 1971 to 1972. Katter left state politics in 1992, and the following year was elected to federal parliament standing in the Division of Kennedy (his father's old seat). Later he was proprietor of the local drapery business, menswear store and picture theatre in Cloncurry, Queensland. His father, Bob Katter Sr., was also a politician. In particular, the small country town of Charters Towers. His father, Bob Katter Sr., was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1966 to 1990, representing the National Party (originally named the Country Party). [3] He left the Labor Party in 1957, when the Queensland Labor Party split from the federal party, running under that party's banner for the state seat of Flinders in that year's state election. Isa Mines".[5][7]. Bob Katter MHR, has called on the federal government to freeze a planned increase to the excise tax on beer, which will take place on August 3, as he says it will hinder the hospitality and liquor industries recovery from the coronavirus lockdown. Katter was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly at the 1974 state election, representing the seat of Flinders. He died a month later, a week before the election. Katter did not run for re-election to state Parliament in 1992, he transferred to federal politics. “You can’t be foreign if you’ve been living here for six generations, or five generations,” Mr Katter told The Australian last year. 50s Robert C Katter Piedmont, CA. Launching his advertisement outside the Queensland Parliament on Wednesday morning he also questioned his brother's commitment to family values. Carl Katter was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and grew up in the northwest of the state. He formed his own party, Katter's Australian Party, in 2011. Katter attended the University of Queensland, where he studied law, but later dropped out without graduating. THE daughter of colourful Independent MP Bob Katter has quit her high-flying legal career - and Sydney - after being found guilty of assaulting a kindergarten teacher. This allowed him to consolidate his hold on the seat, and he became the first non-Labor candidate in four decades to win a primary vote majority in Kennedy. [9] However, when he transferred to federal politics, he found himself increasingly out of sympathy with the federal Liberal and National parties on economic and social issues.
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