Early life Katter was born on 3 March 1977 in
North Queensland. His father is
Bob Katter, the federal member for
Kennedy and founder of Katter's Australian Party, and his grandfather
Bob Katter Sr. was also a federal MP. He received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Property Economics from the
Queensland University of Technology.
Early career Katter started his career as a mine worker in
Mount Isa,
Political career (2012–present) He won Mount Isa at the
2012 state election, pushing
Labor incumbent
Betty Kiernan into third place. He capitalised on his family's name recognition in the area. Mount Isa was virtually coextensive with the western portion of his father's federal seat of
Kennedy, and much of the eastern portion of the seat was once part of the elder Katter's old state seat of
Flinders. After his election to the Legislative Assembly, he became Queensland leader of his father's party, but on 29 November 2012, it was announced that he had been succeeded as leader by
Ray Hopper, and would become the party's "parliamentary secretary". Following Hopper's defeat at the 2015 election, Katter once again became state leader. The state electorate of Mount Isa was abolished in 2017, and Katter followed most of his constituents into the new seat of Traeger. The new seat was essentially the northern, more urbanised portion of Katter's former seat, and is based on Mount Isa. The seat was created as a comfortably safe KAP seat, and Katter won it handily. He serves on the boards of the Laura Johnson Home, a retirement home, and the Southern Gulf Catchments, an environmental organisation. At the
2020 Queensland state election Katter retained his seat of
Traeger with 58.85 per cent of first preference votes and 74.72 per cent of the
two-party-preferred vote. At the
2024 Queensland state election Katter retained his seat of
Traeger. ==Political views==