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Broadband ranks low in Bob Katter’s Kennedy

BOB Katter won’t find a single paragraph devoted to broadband in a briefing prepared by two local government officials.

The officials who scrambled to prepare and present the brief to his office last week said that broadband was so far down the electorate’s list of priorities it scarcely rated mention.

It’s not clear if Mr Katter, the Queensland independent MP for Kennedy , has received the document which was a wish list of policy developments that local authorities believed were critical to the region.

When asked whether the document contained any reference to broadband policy, the two authors said there was not.

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