Nick Dametto
Nick Dametto (born 18 September 1983) is an Australian politician who has been the Mayor of Townsville since November 2025. He previously served as the member for Hinchinbrook in the Queensland Parliament from 2017 to 2025 and was the deputy leader of Katter’s Australian Party from 2021 to 2025.
Dametto grew up on a family sugar cane farm in Ingham, Queensland. He left school in 2000 and worked a range of jobs after hours, later gaining experience in boating, sugar, and mining. He and his wife became parents at 18, and they have at least one son. He later owned a jet ski business and worked in various industries before entering politics.
In the 2017 state election, Dametto won Hinchinbrook for KAP after a preferential flow, defeating the long‑time LNP incumbent Andrew Cripps. Hinchinbrook had been in LNP or National hands since 1960. He became deputy leader of KAP in 2021 under Robbie Katter.
In 2025 Dametto faced an adult caution for breaching alcohol restrictions on Curacoa Island. He also helped organise the August 2025 Townsville rally for the March for Australia, an anti‑immigration event, and faced questions about neo‑Nazi presence at the rally, which he defended with a insistence on free Australian participation.
In September 2025 he said he would resign from KAP to run as an independent in the Townsville mayoral by‑election. By October 2025 he had left the party and state parliament. He won the by‑election in November 2025 with a primary vote of 61.53%.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 17:44 (CET).