Media Release

KENNEDY MP, Bob Katter says he won’t be signing up to the Federal Government’s contact tracing app full stop, and if it becomes compulsory he’d rather be thrown in jail.

“I will not now, or in the future, agree to a contact tracing app,” Mr Katter said.

“The Christian Brothers, and other educators, insisted on us reading 1984 and A Brave New World, and now these Orwellian predictions have never seemed more real.

“Whatever argument you have for forsaking your freedoms, at the end of the day you will find it’s a poor trade off.”

The Katter’s Australian Party Member congratulated the Federal Government on its brilliant handling of Coronavirus up until now, but stated they’d failed to force the hands of state governments to implement regional quarantining (except for the shining example of Western Australia).

“Our most powerful weapon is that regional areas like North Qld have only a dozen active Coronavirus cases and by the end of this week will be contagion free,” Mr Katter said.

“We must keep the clean areas clean by isolating them, and apart from the WA government no-one is doing that.

“If you stop travel from Coronavirus hotspots into these clean areas then you can relax restrictions, restart business and implement a public works scheme of dam building, new railines, roads and transmission lines.

“North Qld is a virtual island, surrounded by 400 kilometres of nothingness, and can be easily quarantined.

“It’s a far better alternative than implementing an Orwellian phone app that will invade every aspect of our much loved privacy and freedom.”

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