Bob Katter Says In The Event Of A Hung Parliament I Will Support Whichever Party Promises To Ban Those Dating Shows That All The Sheilahs In My Office Go Mad Over Deadset Where Do They Find These People There’s Been One Too Many Occasions Where I Have Been Exposed To This Rubbish While Working Nights In The Office On The Campaign And I Have To Tell You If My Granddaughters Brought Home The Same Standard Of Blokes That Exist In This Universe Of Gold Coast Nightclub Promoters And Halfwit Online Entrepreneurs I Would Waste No Time In Putting Him To Work With A Shovel On The Most Precarious Retaining Wall Maintenance Out The Back Of My Our Block In Mount Isa There Is Only Really One Way To Test A Man’s Mettle And That Is By Exploiting His Own Fragile Sense Of Masculinity And In Turn Forcing Him Into Highly Dangerous And Unnecessary Physical Labour That Really Should Be Left To A Qualified Tradesman I Did It With My Own Son Robbie When It Became Known To Me That He Had Started Wearing Cologne As A Young Bachelor On The Tiles In Townsville I Ordered Him Back Home And Had Him Digging Holes For No Reason And All And When He Was Done I Had Him Fill Them Back Up Again And I’ve Done It To All Of My Grandsons Every Time I Receive Word That They’ve Been Talking Back To Their Mothers I Even Did It With Kevin Rudd When He First Started Using Social Media As A Tool Of Self Promotion I Honestly Thought He’d Lost His Marbles But Then Again I Was Never Really On Kevin’s Level Ya Know Sure He Comes From Good Stock And His Family Are Well Versed With The Harshness Of Life On The Land But How Does A Bloke Come Out Of All That And Somehow Become Fluent In Mandarin I Found Him To Be A Particularly Distressing Brand Of Leftie Who Harboured A Creepy Amount Of Knowledge About Foreign Countries That I’d Rather Have Nothing To Do With Mind You It Probably Helped Us During The GFC To Have An Egg-Man Leading Our Nation When China Was Starting To Emerge As A Crucial Export Market And America Was On Skates Because Their Banks Forgot How To Run Background Checks On Home Loan Applications And Look When I Say Egg-Man I’m Referring To A Bloke That Is White On The Outside And Chinese On The Inside I Actually Learnt The Term From Some Of My Asian Constituents During The Chinese New Years Celebrations In Cairns Which I Probably Wouldn’t Have Bothered Attending Twenty Years Ago So I Spose Kevin Did Instil A Sense Of Global Awareness Even In An Old Protectionist Like Myself Plus He’s A Queenslander So I Give Him Points On That Now Albanese Isn’t A Queenslander But He Is A Catholic And He Is A Rabbitohs Supporter Which Is The Closest Thing You Get To Queenslanders In That Open Air Sewer They Call Sydney Harbour So That’s What’s Making It So Tricky For Me To Choose Between Labor And A Coalition Which Is Now Run Solely By A Queenslander Which Actually Might Actually Be A Problem For Them In The Long Term Because As We Also Learnt From Kevin It’s Not Often A Wise Idea To Give Full Control To Someone From This Part Of The World Unless You Don’t Mind The Sheer Chaos That Comes With A Power-Drunk Autocrat Who Will Only Offer You Their Way Or The Highway Look Queenslanders As Voters Have Always Loved A Dictator From Our Local Mayors To Our Premiers We Love Someone Who Makes Captain’s Calls If There Was A Venn Diagram Between Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Style Of Leadership And Sir Joh Bjelke-Peterson It Would Be A Complete Circle And While It Works Very Well Up Here It Can Be Quite Grating In A Federal Parliament That Requires People From All Over The Country To Work Together But If You Can Strike That Balance Between Between North And South You Can Get A Lot Of Things Done We Saw It For About A Year When Turnbull Had Barnaby As His Attack Dog Before He Went And Got Himself Sacked And Kicked Out Of Home In The Same Miserable Couple Months Mind You He’s Not Done Yet I Reckon That Half-Mad Dirranbandi Cattledog Has Got Another Couple Terms In Him And If Dutton Buggers Up This Election He’ll Be Back As Leader Of The Nats But Enough About That Where Was I Before I Got Carried Away Oh Yeah These Dating Shows What’s With All These Boy-Crazy Women With Foul Mouths I Mean Are They Even Good Sorts They All Looks The Same After Filling Their Faces With More Silicone Than The DIY Aisle At Mitre Ten Is That The New Look Or Something Because I’d Be Worried About Them Standing Next To A Naked Flame Looking Like That But Each To Their Own I Spose

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With the 2025 election looking like it could end in a hung parliament, there has been lots of commentary surrounding the role of Independents in deciding which major party will lead our country.

One of the most long-standing Independents in Parliament, the Honourable Bob Katter III has today released a short statement regarding the decision he may have to make on behalf of Australians in early May.