Alliance not on: Katter
ROBBIE Katter has rejected suggestions his party should form a conservative alliance with One Nation and others to undercut the LNP’s regional base.
The suggestion to form some kind of regional alliance came from Nationals party life member and well- known Burdekin cane farmer Geoff Cox.
“The LNP are terribly concerned that a new party would fragment things,” he said. “I am also concerned … my interest isn’t in a new party to fragment things, it’s in a new party to collect things.”
But Mr Katter said he didn’t believe there was a “gap” in the North that needed to be filled by conservatives.
“I think Geoff’s trying to recreate something to do the job we’re already doing,” he said.
“I’d say our results in the last state election are a pretty strong endorsement that the community backs what we’re trying to do.”
Mr Katter said he “rejects” Mr Cox’s statements the KAP were not broad- reaching enough.
“That’s the death that the National Party suffered, trying to go too broad,” he said.
The renewed interest in a northern- focused alliance comes as interest groups prepare to ramp up their push for the creation of a separate North Queensland state.
Pro- separate state groups from Townsville and Cairns are meeting for the first time in Cardwell on August 5 to form the “NQ State Alliance”.