BOB Katter, the fiery Queensland MP and Katter Party leader, will visit Inverell later this month.
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Katter made headlines last year when Akubra announced that it would replace the Australian sourced rabbit’s fur, used to make Akubra hats, for imported furs.
The MP threatened to ditch the garment with which he had become almost synonymous, before the company finally agreed that it would continue making his personal hat from “Australian rabbit fur”.
Katter will arrive at the Inverell Club from 4.30pm on Thursday, February 25, to discuss rural debt, supermarket monopolies, foreign ownership, ethanol production and the effects of market deregulation.
Katter Party spokesman Tom Harris said they were keen to put forward candidates in this year's federal election and would be using the visit to drum up support.
Katter has, among other political moves, opposed the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, describing it as “the greatest threat to Australia’s Sovereignty in decades”, while also campaigning against coal seam gas projects.
He has been championing ethanol as a renewable energy source in a recent bill to see a minimum of five per cent ethanol flowing from petrol bowsers by 2019, and 10 per cent by 2022.