Bob Katter says Canberra remains a soulless capital

By Matthew Raggatt
Updated August 15 2016 - 10:18pm, first published August 14 2016 - 12:00am
Bob Katter, arriving at Parliament House in 1998, has spent nearly a quarter of a century working in Canberra but said it had become less friendly in and out of the House since the 1980s. Photo: Mike Bowers
Bob Katter, arriving at Parliament House in 1998, has spent nearly a quarter of a century working in Canberra but said it had become less friendly in and out of the House since the 1980s. Photo: Mike Bowers
Bob Katter holds a press conference at his Parliament house desk to announce he will back the Coalition after the cliffhanger 2010 vote. Photo: Andrew Meares
Bob Katter holds a press conference at his Parliament house desk to announce he will back the Coalition after the cliffhanger 2010 vote. Photo: Andrew Meares
Then-independent MP Bob Katter at the "Don't meddle with marriage" rally in Canberra in 2011, where he supported cause by auctioning his hat. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Then-independent MP Bob Katter at the "Don't meddle with marriage" rally in Canberra in 2011, where he supported cause by auctioning his hat. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

It's the mid-1980s and Bob Katter is getting a burger from Dave's Hot Dogs stand at a service station in north Canberra when a critic shares his thoughts.

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