For those that haven’t already heard, late November we had win for the community with the Transport Department finally listening to what we have been asking for with an expanded dredging trial off Mooloolaba. Unlike previous programs which involved dredging the entrance to the channel, the trial will involve dredging sand banks to the west…
There’s a lot of money being spent on business cases for Sunshine Coast Mass Transit and Heavy Rail to Maroochydore, but the big question is how much of this money is about kicking the can down the road and deliberate delaying tactics? $15 million is being spent on the Sunshine Coast Mass Transit business case…
The State Labor Government has introduced legislation to effectively ban non-Labor aligned unions. Despite the fact Queensland teachers and nurses had been voting with their feet to join some of the other unions, Labor has now made these alternatives effectively illegal. This could cost teachers and nurses an extra $400 each in union fees than…
The Palaszczuk Labor Government’s poor budget management has had a big impact on the cost-of-living crisis in Queensland. Queensland families are feeling the pinch more than ever as the cost-of-living crisis continues to spiral out of control. The soaring cost of petrol, electricity, vehicle registration and rent has also added thousands of dollars to household…
This week we’ve seen the terrible news that police officers, Constable Matthew Arnold and Constable Rachel McCrow, were shot and killed in the line of duty. As with most of the community I found this news heart breaking – they were doing their jobs and lost their lives in the process. It is a timely…
The Coaldrake Review exposed how the Palaszczuk Government is presiding over a culture of fear and bullying and now the Auditor-General has exposed the impacts this lack of leadership is having on the public service. This failure in leadership is being felt in the deterioration of services Queenslanders rely upon everyday. -ENDS-
The claims Minister Scanlon must answer for were raised by serious reports and landholders willing to go on the public record. Do their claims not matter? The Minister herself said Queenslanders deserved to know the truth after she failed to release alarming information 18 months ago. Does she no longer believe that? Reports that her…
“The independence and impartiality of the Electoral Commission of Queensland is critical. “It’s deeply concerning that this third-term Labor State Government is making moves to threaten that. “This government changed the voting laws. “They changed the donation laws. “Now they want the power to investigate the Electoral Commission. “They will stop at nothing to fix…
Translink and Council have agreed to re-route a bus route into the new Maroochydore CBD via Dalby St without any public consultation and the community is fighting back. Residents of Dalby Street are worried about loss of on-street parking and the narrowness of the road with the large buses. State MP Fiona Simpson said the…
I am absolutely horrified by the latest incident involving the Member for Mundingburra. Les Walker represents a community where his government has allowed youth crime to run out of control. Mr Walker has previously been banned from Townsville’s safe night precinct and now he is making a mockery of Queensland Police at a Police Remembrance…