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October 28th, 2011 
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It’s not uncommon for political parties to promise all sorts of offerings to clubs and organisations in return for support at the ballot box. However Bob Katter’s fledgling Australia Party is breaking new ground as it attempts to win over gun clubs. Shooters are being given bullets which is in turn providing plenty of ammunition for critics worried that the new party is too close to gun interests.
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PETER CAVE: It’s not uncommon for political parties to promise all sorts of things to clubs and organisations in return for support at the ballot box.
But Bob Katter’s new Australian Party is breaking new ground as it attempts to win over gun clubs.
Shooters are being given bullets and that’s providing plenty of ammunition for their critics, worried that the new party is too tied to gun interests.
Our reporter Matt Wordsworth spoke to gun dealer and senior vice president of Bob Katter’s Australian Party, Rob Nioa.
ROB NIOA: In my capacity as an ammunition wholesaler I have always sponsored shotgun shooting activities around Australia.
I recently since the launch of the party have included some brochures and some stickers for the Australian Party in those sponsorships.
MATT WORDSWORTH: How many bullets are you sending out and what dollar value are they?
ROB NIOA: Oh, I’m not sure of the current quantity. Typically it might be $400 worth of product at a time and there’s probably six clubs that have benefited from it so far.
I’d like to be doing a lot more of course but the party has only been in existence for three months.
And we have not altered our sponsorship program. It is the same sponsorship program that was in place last year. All that we have done is added some brochures and stickers to the delivery.
MATT WORDSWORTH: Do you favour loosening of the firearms legislation?
ROB NIOA: What we want is, what I personally want to see is more practical solutions where we can.
I’m not about loosening any of the main platforms of the National Firearms Agreement and there is not a public appetite for it and we are not seeking to do that. And in fact we haven’t even drafted a firearms policy.
But what we are strong on is that in the core values and principles enshrined in the constitution of the party is that Australians will have the right to pursue outdoor recreational activities of their choosing, including hunting, shooting, fishing, kayaking, bushwalking, rock climbing and so on with minimal government interference and they will have access to public lands from which to do that.
MATT WORDSWORTH: So you favour shooting in national parks?
ROB NIOA: What we don’t agree with is allowing government lands to breed feral pests to destroy local flora and fauna and to then go on to private lands to destroy crops and so on.
MATT WORDSWORTH: The Shooters and Fishers Party in New South Wales does want to shoot in National Parks. Do you support that and is that something you’d like to see in Queensland?
ROB NIOA: If we have national parks that are in remote areas that are breeding massive numbers of feral pests which are carrying disease then government has an obligation to go in there and to remove those animals.
And I’d certainly object to poisoning in national parks, that is not acceptable.
The humane use of licensed individuals with permits in remote areas to prevent that would be a very, very good activity. I mean it’d have to be controlled so that it’s not in an area where tourists and people are walking by.
MATT WORDSWORTH: Now the article suggests or says that you personally contributed $100,000 to Katter’s Australian Party. Is that correct?
ROB NIOA: Yes.
MATT WORDSWORTH: Is there other figures involved or is it just that $100,000?
ROB NIOA: When you say other figures…
MATT WORDSWORTH: Like is that the total of what you’ve contributed to the party?
ROB NIOA: Ah, I also contributed, as it says in the article, office space to the party.
I intend contributing a whole lot more to the party as well. I believe in what they do. I mean Bob’s my father-in-law and I’ll keep supporting him. And it’s a tight family. If your family doesn’t support you I don’t know who will.
And I can tell you that there’s a lot of other people that do too and anything I can do to help I will be doing and I am doing. And to be honest I just wish I could do some more.
MATT WORDSWORTH: The article also says that Jeff Jones from the Sporting Shooters Association has donated some money as well. How much has come from there?
ROB NIOA: Look I think they reported $100,000 from Jeff and that’d be right. You know it’d be in that order. If it wasn’t all of that it’d be something like that.
MATT WORDSWORTH: And so how much in total has come from shooting interests of the total amount of money that went to set up the party?
ROB NIOA: That’s it. So you know, that’s all you’ve got.
MATT WORDSWORTH: So you’ve got about $200,000 out of how much?
ROB NIOA: Out of about, oh a bit over half a million.
MATT WORDSWORTH: So given that two-fifths of the money is coming from gun interests then is it fair – and given that you’re senior vice president of the party also – is the party beholden to shooting interests?
ROB NIOA: No. That money was raised before the public, before the party was launched. So when you, in order to launch the party we needed at least half a million dollars in the bank to actually form a base for the party.
So I’m his son-in-law and I’m involved. Yes, I tip in my bit. I rang a mate of mine Jeff Jones to say mate I think you’ll like that the party has got a philosophy that supports hunting and shooting and fishing without government interference. He said, oh well yep we’ll support that.
And then we’ve got the Electrical Trades Union which represents – they are sick to death of seeing jobs shipped overseas and sale of state assets. They’re terrified about the privatisation of the electrical industry here in Queensland and the ramifications Australia-wide.
We’ve got ethanol interests. We’ve got people that are fishing interests. And we’ve got people that are against the Coles-Woolworths monopoly.
PETER CAVE: Rob Nioa from Bob Katter’s Australian Party speaking there to Matt Wordsworth in Brisbane.
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