Should QLD be split into two states?

Katter's Australia Party leader Robbie Katter wants Queensland to be split in two. Video via AAP

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00:00 I think anyone from North Queensland instinctively knows that there's a vast

00:06 chasm between a cultural divide between the governing centre 2000 kilometres away

00:12 and what we do up there. Crocodiles would be a centrepiece of that, you know, to

00:17 showcase that divide and people are quite frankly sick of that and I think we need

00:23 to be mature enough to have a discussion about how we can do things better and

00:27 it's not like, it's not that I think this moves for a separate state

00:34 or be misinterpreted as people grasping of power or for, it's central to the

00:42 debate is that we need to do things better in Australia, not just Queensland

00:47 in Australia and if there's resources and opportunities up there that it's

00:53 enormously frustrating to see them all lighted and not activated when things

00:57 could be done better but you just, you don't have the ministerial contact, the

01:03 impetus driven by people that are on the ground there and the two-party system is

01:08 failing, it's Liberal and Labor, they govern with a focus on South East

01:12 Queensland and you know just look at the biggest infrastructure projects we've

01:17 had the last 20 years is across River Rail Tunnel, the increased convenience

01:20 for passenger traffic in the city and the Olympics Games is the next big

01:24 commitment and that's got nothing to do with anyone up there and we've got towns

01:29 that get shut off for three months because you can't build a bridge there, they

01:33 don't get, they've got grocery rations because you can't get, they have phones

01:36 out for a week and we get there, we come down here and hear how we've got a, you

01:41 know, the big impetus from the government is to build a 12 billion dollar, sorry,

01:44 seven billion dollar rail tunnel to get people to work ten minutes earlier.