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Bowen to the Pilbara: NQ First backs transcontinental railway
A PROPOSED transcontinental railway linking Bowen with Western Australia’s Pilbara, paving the way for the resurrection of Australia’s steel-making industry, has the support of NQ First. Stretching from Abbot Point and the coalfields to the Pilbara’s iron ore country...
NQ First Policy Statement – Statehood for North Queensland
Introduction This Policy Statement was endorsed by the Party Executive on 20 September 2020. Within the context of this document, ‘The State of North Queensland’ is, (by means described herein), a yet to be precisely defined area of Central, North and Far North...
Podcast: Costo Talking $6 Billion Real Royalties for Regions
Ben Dobbin from Rural Queensland Today spoke to Jason Costigan, the leader of the North Queensland First, about the need for royalties in the North, Far North and Central QLD.
Video: Costo’s Parliament House Report
Costo’s report from the first sitting day of the year from Parliament House in Brisbane.
Costigan welcomes ECQ registration of NQ First
NORTH Queensland First Leader and Whitsunday MP Jason Costigan has welcomed today’s official registration of the State’s newest political party by the Electoral Commission of Queensland, setting the scene for the ‘Battle of the North’ in next year’s State Election....
NQ First Leader Heads to the North West
NORTH QUEENSLAND FIRST Leader and Member for Whitsunday Jason Costigan is set to tour communities in the State’s North West — just days after announcing the formation of a new political party in Queensland. Mr Costigan, who first came to Mount Isa in 1987 whilst...
Costigan Unveils North Queensland First
A NEW political party, North Queensland First, has been unveiled in Townsville by Whitsunday MP Jason Costigan, aimed at delivering a fair go for North Queenslanders and Statehood for the North. Less than 24 hours before State Parliament sits in the city for the first...