He's always been for Labor because of his cousin Bruce Hawker (appropriate surname!) and has picked up a pile for selling his land for $4 million, (somehow got twice what a same size almost identical block just down the road fetched so the rumor goes, so luck well with him there for who knows what reasons if true, - and he knows darn well he's retiring at next election anyway. So he doesn't care about us or his constituents - and is in a win/win/win situation himself.
He hated ther National Party after they sacked him as a coming candidate in a previous election campaign for some misdeamenour they disapproved of - details surely could be Googled. And thus he became an "Independent."
And as I've said before, Katter is keeping HIS seat warm for his son. All in the family.
Will the lights come on with Oakeshott - who perhaps will start to wake up andrealise he's been "had", and played for a fool by Windsor and the subsequent Hawker influence, and subsequently used by Gillard, Swan and Co. If he is, after all, a man of integrity, just misguided, perhaps he will suprise us and stand up for what is right.
