Betty Margaret Kiernan (born 27 August 1955) is an Australian politician. Born in Mount Isa,

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, she was an electorate officer and corporate manager before entering politics, and had served on Cloncurry Shire Council from 1981 to 1990. A member of the Labor Party, she was elected to the

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as the member for Mount Isa. She lost her seat in the 2012 state election amid Labor's collapse that year, particularly in regional Queensland. She was actually pushed into third place on the primary vote, behind winner

Robbie Katter Robert Carl Ignatius Katter (born 3 March 1977) is an Australian politician. He serves as the member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Traeger, having previously represented Mount Isa from 2012 to 2017. He is the leader of Katter's ...

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and the Liberal National candidate.

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