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KAP Member for Kennedy, Bob Katter said the major parties “fandangaling” of the electoral distribution changes are intended to “break KAP” but, “may have opened the gate to the major parties own stupid, selfish destruction.” The Queensland Electoral Commission’s changes have morphed Shane Knuth, KAP Member for Dalrymple’s electorate into a small part of three other electorates. Mr Bob Katter said, “The heartbreak that Shane Knuth (his family have lived in Charters Towers since the 1890s) feels having his heartland brutally taken from him deserves all of our sympathies. But he is a fighter. He’ll come after the ALP/LNP. I wouldn’t like to be them. “Nth and Western Qld feels revulsion. Robbie Katter has an electorate now bigger than more countries on earth. Charters Towers in 1000k from Mount Isa. Normanton is 1000km from Bouila. “We will rally behind these two fighters [Rob Katter and Shane Knuth] whose only crime is they refuse to be puppets for the Brisbane-based majors. “There is only one small but significant force in the State Parliament -- the KAP. “It has forced the major parties to restore arbitration in the sugar industry and deliver ethanol. “Never in a billion years would either of those things have happened if it wasn’t for KAP. “We tenaciously oppose the foreign ownership that the major parties delightfully call ‘foreign investment.’ “The suits in tapestry towers must eliminate us to earn their giant agency fees for selling Australia and importing of goods once produced by Australians. “If they can eliminate the voice of the people they can keep their cozy little two-party system forever. “So take Shane Knuth’s seat out from under him, break it up into 3 other electorates, make Robbie Katter’s so big he’ll die of exhaustion. “We remain the only country on earth that demands all electorates be of equal populations. All others allow for distance, remoteness, sparseness and racial equality. If it is Nuntsiauq in Canada, Orkney Isles in Great Britain or even Puerto Rico in the United States. “In the seats of Cook and Mount Isa the voices of the First Australians are stifled, buried by sparseness and remoteness. “The great commentators and founders of modern Democracy Alexis De Toqueville, John Stuart Mill talked constantly about the tyranny of the majority. “How does Brisbane have 200 overpasses and Nth Qld with the same population has only 8? “How does Brisbane have 24 km of tunnels, (Sydney only 14kms) and Nth Qld has none? “How come SE Qld has ‘all’ of the power stations and we have none? “How come all our railways were sold off but Brisbane’s commuter system wasn’t?” “How come Nth Qld has the highest unemployment rates in Australia and in Western Qld, nearly every single town is dying?”