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The Katter’s Australian Party has laced up its footy boots and attempted a field goal in its push for a separate “North Queensland” state, with leader Robbie Katter trying to draw an analogy last night with the creation of the North Queensland Cowboys.“The NRL at that time said that the empirical evidence said we should not have a team up there. You don’t have the finances, the resources, the commercial activity, the player base to support a team ... Well, it did .
”Making clear in his reply there would be no support from his party, Cairns-based Labor minister Michael Healy said – perhaps with his tongue in his cheek – that without more detail “we can only make the cruel assumption that it’s going to be more politicians and more bureaucracy”.“Now, I want to make it abundantly clear that I think we should be looking at reducing government, if anything.
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