Media Release

Killer bats hold Charters Towers hostage

13 November 2017: Hon Bob Katter MP, KAP Federal Member, is furious more has not been done to prevent the flying fox epidemic taking over Charters Towers, despite the fact the bats have closed down the zoo, a kindergarten, playgrounds, parks - and more terrifying - the threat they carry with salmonella, leptospirosis, hendra and lyssavirus – causing the death of a young boy in 2013, and arguably more undetected deaths every year due to incorrect diagnosis.

“At least one North Qld doctor argues there is nearly a dozen deaths a year from leptospirosis wrongly diagnosed as bronchial disease,” Mr Katter said.

“They have completely destroyed the beautiful park in Charters Towers, the centre of Charters Towers and the 130 year old Moreton Bay fig trees.

“They have closed down our little mini zoo, our pool, kindergarten and the most terrible cruel death filmed on 60 Minutes of the boy in Mackay.

“Now in the face of all of this, State Government informs us that we will be prosecuted if we attempt to move them on.

“I suspect if State Government was to go back to the polls, they would be properly slaughtered in North Qld in the next election.

”It was a brilliant strategy of Palaszczuk to have a quick election.”

Mr Katter said he was in legal discussions today about prosecuting the Qld Premier and Health Minister on the first available illness case, stating there is clearly a most flagrant breach of duty of care.

“They can’t see the danger to the people of Qld, she has allowed consideration of bats to override the health and life of people. The definition of psychosis is taught as a complete absence of feeling for your fellow man.

“The farmer and farm worker and people employed in the agri industries, one doing away with themselves every two or three months, there’s also a North Qlder being eaten alive by a crocodile on an average of one every three and a half months – two in the space of six months.

“Then we have some very sick people running the State, and if you look into their backgrounds there is not a single achievement like holding down a job in the real world that could be attributed to any of their leadership, they are clearly out of touch with reality.”

Mr Katter said he is contacting all of the doctors in the Kennedy electorate to stay alert for any cases that could be attributed to the flying foxes.

“Written underneath the flag at Eureka, not that the premier would know what Eureka was “when oppression becomes law, then resistance becomes duty,” Mr Katter said.

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