Robert Cummin Katter Sources for this person
1918 – 1990
Born5 September 1918 in South Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliaDied18 March 1990 in Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia, aged 71
After his army appointment was terminated in 1942 Katter returned to Cloncurry, in north Queensland, where his family ran a general store. He leased a clothing store and later a picture theatre. The Parliamentary Handbook records his occupations as theatre proprietor and business manager. On taking over the cinema he removed the steel partitions that had divided Aboriginal patrons from other patrons.