Community & Business
11 May, 2022
Katter puts his back into election campaign
A CHEEKY social media and TV advertising campaign by Member for Kennedy Bob Katter highlighting flaws in the major parties that are regularly raised by North Queensland voters have hit TV screens and social media feeds.
A CHEEKY social media and TV advertising campaign by Member for Kennedy Bob Katter highlighting flaws in the major parties that are regularly raised by North Queensland voters have hit TV screens and social media feeds.
One of the 30 second ads, ‘The Great Comparison’, has Bob Katter ripping a ukulele out of the Prime Minister’s hands and getting him to sign a contract to build the Bradfield Scheme.
The same ad also compares Labor Leader Anthony Albanese doing a Women’s Weekly photoshoot, with Bob Katter carrying a 40kg bunch of bananas at a farm near Innisfail, North Queensland.
The advertisement goes on to focus on the differences between Katter’s Australian Party and the major parties including, prioritising Australian farmers over imported products, a push for Australianmade ethanol fuel, freedom of choice for Covid vaccines, and a tenacious opposition to the sell-off of government assets like the Port of Darwin and the electricity industry.
The final scene of the ad is Mr Katter shaping up in a boxing ring taking off his gloves.
Mr Katter said while the advertisement had a lighter side, Australians were enraged by State and Federal Governments who had continuously sold off assets and land to the highest bidder, most of the time to a foreign company or individual.
“Of all the things that set me off into a rage and fury, ultimately it is the sale of Australia,” Mr Katter said. “The biggest mining companies were Australian owned, now they are foreign owned. The biggest owners of farmland in Australia are foreigners. “What is wrong with us as a people? We should rise up in rage against the Liberal National Party and the Labor Party. It is not your asset to sell off. It was the people’s asset. There should have at least been a vote as to whether you sold off assets like the Commonwealth Bank, Qantas or Telstra.”
The second ad features a final scene of Mr Katter planting an Australian flag into the ground and the words “not for sale” flash onto the screen.
