This sounds to good to be true. Anyone got any further details. What is TFPQ role in this if at all. See the highlighted section in red below.
Derek
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Katter tells of 'new beast' in Parliament
By Maria Hawthorne
September 11, 2006
BOB Katter announced the birth of a new political movement today - or did he?
In typically eccentric style, the independent member for the far north Queensland federal seat of Kennedy summoned journalists to his office to talk up a new "beast" emerging in the wake of last weekend's Queensland election.
The beast would ride the same “horse of discontent” that One Nation harnessed eight years ago, he said, except that the new movement's members knew where they stood on issues like competition policy.
Mr Katter, a former National, said he had been inundated by hundreds of calls over the past four months complaining about the vacuum in politics left by Labor and the Nationals abandoning their traditional policies.
Meetings will be held in New South Wales and Queensland over the next two months to iron out the future of the new movement.
But further details are sketchy.
Asked if the movement was going to be a new party, or a new network of independents, or who was involved, or how many members it might have, Mr Katter could not say.
“All I am saying is that groups are coming together and I'm not at liberty to go any further than that,” he said.
“It would be very foolish for me to go any further, secondly, and thirdly, there has been no final determination of the nature of the beast that will come forward.
“It will most certainly be there in the federal election.”
He said there was no coordination at the present moment “but for the next two months there will be”.
“It's a fair comment – is there anything happening out there if there's no-one in charge directing traffic? Yes, if you've got a mass movement taking place, that is the very nature of a mass movement,” he said.
“But it metastases very, very quickly into leadership, as we saw with One Nation.”
People who wanted to get aboard should contact his office, he said, but it would be inflating his involvement to say he was organising it.
Some current state Nationals members would be involved, as would groups like the Fishing Party and the Shooters Party, he said.
He blasted the Nationals for abandoning their original platform of building major infrastructure like roads and dams, and backing collective marketing for rural commodities – with AWB the sole remnant of single desk selling.
Nationals leader Lawrence Springborg was a very nice person, he said, but had gone straight into parliament from school – “and I think that he proves the failure of career politicians in Australia”.
The Beattie government had failed on electricity, health and water and yet had been returned in a landslide, Mr Katter said.
“Here's a Government failing on the three key areas of government and yet they have pulled off a fourth massive victory,” he said.
“And it is a complete failure of the Opposition to perform in Queensland.”
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Originally Posted by Derek Bullock
