Katter Party's cut and paste job slammed HARDLY WORKING: Bob Katter and Shane Knuth in Charters Towers. A KATTER Australian Party member has been caught out filing a report to State Parliament lifted almost entirely from two submissions made by professional organisations. Member for Dalrymple Shane Knuth submitted his "statement of reservations" in response to the committee examining the Mining and Other Legislation Amendment Bill. While the first paragraph was his own, the rest of the statement came directly from submissions made by the Queensland Resources Council and the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies. Mr Knuth yesterday conceded the statement was "a mistake." "The thing is we (the KAP) will continue to make mistakes because we have no staff to assist us," said Mr Knuth, one of three KAP MPs. When I'm down at Parliament, there is staff everywhere looking after the LNP and Labor, whereas we have none. Opposition natural resources and mines spokeswoman Jo-Ann Miller, who spotted the apparent plagiarism, said it was "typical of the lack of effort shown by the Katter Party MPs." "Using the cut-and-paste buttons of a computer is no substitute for the hard work that should go into parliamentary committee work," Ms Miller said. What's worse is that it doesn't surprise me. After all this is the party whose MPs consistently fail to put in the hard yards. Agriculture, Resources and Environment Committee chairman Ian Rickuss said he did not want to comment on "the Katter Australian Party's inability to manage itself." The legislation, which was passed in the last sitting of parliament, introduced a new tendering process to explore Queensland's coal fields. Mr Rickuss said it was designed to "get the best result for all Queenslanders, not just mining companies." "We don't want to send the mining industry broke," Mr Rickuss said. But this tendering for mining areas should be done.