“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…