Liberal and Labor politicians love the maverick MP’s $1.7 billion power project, and don’t seem to care that his brother-in-law would build it.
Mount Isa’s mines and smelters would be linked to the national electricity grid, meaning they would not depend on gas-driven power stations owned by APA Group. Paul Harris
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.
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