The seat of Kennedy covers 567,377 square kilometres, goal below a third of Queensland and an say two and half times the scale of Victoria.
It entails Normanton, Burketown and the Gulf Nation, Mount Isa and the pastoral districts stretching east along the Flinders Dual carriageway to Charters Towers, and a strip of the flit from goal north of Townsville thru to Ingham, Innisfail and the southern suburbs of Cairns.
The voters also entails the Atherton Tablelands and Cape York south of the Mitchell River.
Kennedy is the 2nd ideal voters in Queensland after Maranoa, and seventh ideal in the country.
Recent keep
Kennedy has been held by Katter’s Australian Salvage collectively’s Bob Katter Jnr. for the past 9 elections. He at hide holds a 13 per cent majority. Kennedy is at hide thought of as a safe seat for Mr Katter.
2022 candidates in ballotpaper show
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Candidate title |
Salvage collectively |
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KATTER Bob |
Katter’s Australian Salvage collectively (KAP) |
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MACDONALD Bryce |
Liberal National Salvage collectively (LNP) |
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SACKLEY Jen |
Fair |
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COX Jennifer |
Greens |
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BRANDON Jason |
Australian Labor Salvage collectively |
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CAMPION Peter |
United Australia Salvage collectively |
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No candidate |
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Salvage collectively |
Bob Katter | Katter’s Australian Salvage collectively (KAP)
Background
Bob Katter grew up in Cloncurry, in north-west Queensland and labored in his family’s clothing firms as a younger man sooner than taking on jobs as a labourer and mine worker.
His father became the Kennedy member from 1966 to 1990.
Mr Katter obtained the say seat of Flinders in 1974 which he held except 1992 sooner than successful the federal seat of Kennedy. He smash up from the National Salvage collectively in 2001 and continued as an self ample sooner than forming Katter’s Australian Salvage collectively in 2011.
High marketing and marketing and marketing campaign factors: Mark of residing, job introduction, housing, water
“One of the most absolute best challenges out here is affordable residing,” Mr Katter stated.
“I deem airfares play a expansive piece in that. We actually favor life like priced airfares. And I deem we wish to get the unions on board with that.
“The restoration of our jobs is also a disaster. But in show to get the oldsters out here, we need places to accommodate them.
“Major water model is taking predicament all over North Queensland and this can relief force population declare. But these initiatives must mild not be for the reason of fattening the pockets of ‘cotton kings’ and foreign homeowners.
“We desire a land ballotmachine the keep irrigation blocks must mild be balloted out to local owner-operator, owner-occupier farmers. Must always you stay in this kind of cities, you delight in got a shot at owning one of many blocks and also you might dwell on the block.”
Bryce Macdonald | Liberal National Salvage collectively (LNP)
Background
Bryce Macdonald became born and raised in the sugar and banana farming town of Tully. He labored on farms and as a driver in the interstate avenue transport industry sooner than initiating a farming and transport industry along with his brother.
He became a councillor and deputy mayor of the Cassowary Soar Regional Council and became a member of the Cairns and Hinterland Clinical institution and Health Provider Advisory Committee.
High marketing and marketing and marketing campaign factors: Roads, water, housing, digital connectivity
“It is sure that Kennedy is not getting its comely share of funding in return from the federal government,” Mr Macdonald stated.
“We provide so many resources to the leisure of the say and country but we’re not getting our comely share relief.”
“We need somebody in Canberra lobbying for extra funding for our patch and recognising the colossal work that local governments conclude. It is about working with all ranges of presidency as a team and then being in Canberra and dealing with the Liberal National Salvage collectively who’re the absolute best drivers of the economy.”
Jen Sackley | Fair
Background
Born in Cairns, Fair candidate for Kennedy Jen Sackley stated a lot of her upbringing became spent in Mount Isa. She lives in Cloncurry. A frail nurse, Ms Sackley became beforehand the North Queensland secretary of the United Australia Salvage collectively. She ran for the seat of Hinchinbrook at the closing say election and for Cairns mayor at the 2020 council elections.
High marketing and marketing and marketing campaign factors: Psychological correctly being, political integrity, defence, veteran care
“I have been pondering about assisting with the predicament-up of the mental correctly being program Selectability and as a section of that job I’ve seen how a lot we now delight in let the products and companies goal dwindle away,” Ms Sackley stated.
“We also wish to delight in a study at the integrity of our political leaders. The entire concept that we don’t favor a governing body round integrity at a federal degree that has right enamel, it be not acceptable.”
“We fully need extra investment in defence. I advance from a family of battle veterans and I ponder how we now delight in let our defence down to the form of low degree.”
“We must watch at correctly being, veteran care, pensions — all of that collectively. What are we doing to our seniors?”
Jennifer Cox | The Greens
Background
Raised in the Atherton Tablelands, Jennifer Cox labored for several tidy marketing and marketing and marketing firms in Sydney and Brisbane sooner than returning to her predicament of origin to do away with a family. She runs her contain web produce and marketing and marketing and marketing industry from house.
High marketing and marketing and marketing campaign factors: Corporate political donations, free education, housing
“I deem the important umbrella enlighten for me that controls alot of the varied complications we’re going thru this day is corporate political donations to parties,” Ms Cox stated.
“It manner the Australian folks delight in less and fewer direct in the running of the country and the political machine and degrades the democracy.”
“We must address the housing crisis higher than anything else and The Greens wish to provide a million homes.
“We would like to originate TAFE and university free to address the final skill shortages, especially for doctors.”
Jason Brandon | Australian Labor Salvage collectively (ALP)
Background
Jason Brandon works in the mining and resources sector as an occupational correctly being and safety unswerving. He also does threat overview all over the mining, processing and smelting sources at Mount Isa Mines. He beforehand labored as an airplane sheet metallic mechanic at Qantas for 13 years. He moved to the north-west in 2019.
High marketing and marketing and marketing campaign factors: Health, housing, childcare, electrical energy
“We’re attempting to originate it easy to get doctors out to regional areas,” Mr Brandon stated.
“And we’re also funding 50 Medicare urgent care clinics to relief get folks thru the machine faster.”
“We delight in a concept for more affordable childcare which makes it more affordable and extra accessible for 96 per cent of Australian families.”
“We’re also upgrading the electrical energy grid to originate it extra ambiance friendly and sustainable with an purpose of cutting energy bills by $275 a 365 days by 2025.”
“We’re constructing 30,000 new social and life like homes with 10,000 of these for frontline workers cherish police and ambulance and stuff cherish that. We would also implement a national housing and homelessness concept to relief folks do away with a condominium and relief these which might maybe well be sleeping rough to get a roof over their head.”
Peter Campion | United Australia Salvage collectively (UAP)
Background
Retired firefighter and long-time North Queensland resident Peter Campion is also the daddy of Vikki Campion, accomplice to Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.
The 59-365 days-dilapidated has been a fireman, fire commander and fire investigator and also labored as a fraud investigator for the Division of Social Security. He ran as an self ample for the say seat of Hill in the 2020 election. He at hide resides on acerage at Tolga, in the Tablelands keep.
High marketing and marketing and marketing campaign factors: Mark of residing, lowering national debt thru higher export tariffs, financial institution regulation
“What’s going to impression Australians increasingly extra is the rising rate of residing,” Mr Campion stated.
“We are in a position to address that in a two-fold methodology.”
“First, we’ll sure our national debt by inserting a 15 per cent export licence on Australian iron ore. Which manner that’s not impacting on our rate of residing.”
“The 2nd piece of it is we delight in now to restrict the ability of banks to force folks out of their homes with rising passion rates.”
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