Nick Dametto tells parliament police have cautioned him after Palm Island Group alcohol photo

Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has told parliament that an investigation into him drinking a full-strength beer on an NQ island under an alcohol management plan has been finalised.

KAP deputy leader Nick Dametto on Curacoa Island

Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto has been cautioned by police after he posted photos to social media of him drinking a beer on an island with strict alcohol regulations.

The Katter’s Australian Party deputy leader told parliament on Wednesday morning that the police had investigated the incident.

Mr Dametto, who is an avid boatie, posted the photos to Facebook on April 18 showing him spending Good Friday with a group of people on the uninhabited Curacoa Island, which is in the Palm Island group.

Mr Dametto said he drank a full-strength beer while on the island, adding that he was “unaware” it was in beach under the control of the Palm Island Alcohol Management Plan.

“I can advise the house the matter is now finalised,” he said.

Mr Dametto has previously called the rules “outdated”

The laws only allow 11.25 litres per person or per vessel, with any liquor required to be a concentration of less than 4 per cent.

A Great Northern, which Mr Dametto was pictured with, has an alcohol percentage of 4.2 per cent.

“As someone who has lived and grown up on the mainland, we know that Palm Island itself and the community definitely has alcohol restrictions,” he previously told the Townsville Bulletin.

“I did not have any idea, most of those people didn’t have any idea, that the outlying islands were included.

“Especially when places like Pelorus and Orpheus Island, which are right next door, are excluded.”

Originally published as Nick Dametto tells parliament police have cautioned him after Palm Island Group alcohol photo