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Checked by RMIT ABC Fact Check26 Oct 2018Australia Elections

Bob Katter, Independent MP

“That election [2001], Ted Mack and the member from Orange Peter Andren, got re-elected. First time ever.”

RMIT ABC Fact Check rated this: Wrong

RMIT ABC Fact Check says: Mr Katter is wrong. His initial election as an independent in 2001, and re-election in 2004, was preceded by the re-election of two other independent MPs, whom he mentioned — one more than a decade earlier. In 1990, for…