Bob Katter’s been an MP for 50 years but there’s one topic he rarely talks about

Not a lot makes Bob Katter cry, a man fond of telling his five kids that boys from Cloncurry in outback Queensland have their tear ducts removed at birth.

But ask the federal crossbench politician about his mother, Mabel, and he gets teary, recalling a stalwart woman with a big but damaged heart…