Unbiased MP Bob Katter has likened the Queensland state authorities to the Nazi secret police in a blustering rant about highway closures within the state’s far north attributable to flooding.
A coastal trough linked to ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper has delivered months of rain to the state’s far north over the weekend, main emergency officers to shut roads inundated with flood waters.
However Mr Katter, who represents the division of Kennedy – which is affected by the flooding – labelled the state’s authorities because the “Gestapo” for the closures, saying the roads had been utilized in “infinitely worse situations to this one million occasions”.
“There’s the Gestapo on the market saying: ‘oh, you’ll be able to’t use that’,” Mr Katter mentioned in an interview on Sky Information, brandishing a bit of driftwood.
“We don’t need Gestapo from Brisbane telling us what roads we will’t or can use.
“The folks of Doomadgee, [Gulf of Carpentaria indigenous leader] Murrandoo Yanner and I needed to say properly we’re strolling by the [road] barrier tomorrow.
“That’s it. We’re sick of being locked up right here in North Queensland.”
Mr Katter slammed the state authorities for investing billions of {dollars} in inexperienced power tasks and the 2032 Brisbane Olympics whereas a tunnel he had proposed between Mareeba and the south of Cairns had not been funded.
“All three pathways to the coast are all minimize, but once more,” Mr Katter declared, referring to the closure of the Palmerston Freeway, Gillies Vary Street and Kurandra Vary Street.
“One little tiny tunnel and we’ve acquired open floor ceaselessly.
“The federal government can construct 36 kilometres of tunnels in Brisbane, however they’ll’t discover one kilometre of tunnel for the million folks of North Queensland.”
Hitting again at claims that the cyclone was as extreme as earlier pure disasters to inflict the state, Mr Katter mentioned Jasper was a “delicate” cyclonic occasion.
“The towering ignorance of those folks is extraordinary. I imply, that is actually delicate,” Mr Katter mentioned.
“In contrast with [2006 Tropical Cyclone Larry] it’s hardly a cyclone in any respect.”
