Bob Katter’s "An Incredible Race of People: A Passionate History of Australia

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Bob Katter’s “An Incredible Race of People: A Passionate History of Australia,” published by Sydney Pier 9 in 2012.

Bob Katter is one of those people who loves their country. His book is an excellent and worthwhile read. Bob Katter has been a member of the House of Representatives since 1993 for the seat of Kennedy as a member of the National Party where his career began in Parliament. As a member of the National Party from 1974 to 1992, he represented the seat of Flinders, a member of the National Party in Queensland. He was the minister of Joh’s government holdings portfolio from 1983 to 1989. Katter was born in Queensland, the son of Bob Katter, Sr., who was a member of Kennedy from 1966 to 1990 and then migrated to Australia. He was born in Lebanon and set up a clothing store and picture theatre in Cloncurry. Bob Katter, Sr. had an interest in cattle and mining before he went into politics.

Katter went to the University of Queensland to continue his studies but dropped out, which later on turned out to be a good thing. He did not have to “prostitute” himself to anyone, he said. Katter’s father was also the member of the Labour Party and Liberal Party until 1957. He then joined the Country Party and went into politics. Bob Katter was a National Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1974 to 1992 and Minister for the Northern Development of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs. Katter was a strong supporter of Bjelke-Petersen’s Country Party. Fast forward to 1996. A large swing vote got him re-elected multiple times.

In 1998, he moved into federal politics and got 70 percent of the vote from 2001 to 2010. He had a falling out with the Liberal and National Parties. Katter then resigned from the National Party.

In June, Bob Katter started a new political party called Katter’s Australian Party. His constituency was largely based in agriculture. He was angered about the preferences of the Labour Party, but he was nevertheless re-elected despite Labour preferences with a two-party swing vote to the Liberal National Party.

Katter was an agrarian socialist who was a romantic about the past and about the ideals of returning to developmentalism in Queensland. You can’t put his book down because it’s a great read about his life and times, though one may not agree with everything he says in the book, “An Incredible Race of People: A Passionate History of Australia.”

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Source by Matthew Jame Little