Businesses and not-for-profit groups will learn how they can benefit from the new National Insurance Disability Scheme at a free information session being hosted by Sunshine Coast MPs Dan Purdie and Fiona Simpson. The NDIS forum will be held at the Mike Ahern Building on Monday 5th November from 12 noon until 2pm with…
Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson has called on the State Government to reconfirm that any plans for a future desalination plant at Marcoola have been well and truly scrapped. Ms Simpson responded to media reports that a new desalination plant for the Sunshine Coast or Brisbane is one of the options under consideration by SEQwater…
Excessive red tape, unnecessary regulations and costly and time-consuming paperwork are costing our local businesses said member for Burnett Stephen Bennett. Mr Bennett said Bundaberg small businesses were being forced to battle with bureaucracy, instead of being able to concentrate on growth. “The Palaszczuk Labor Government has a definite lack of respect for people’s businesses,…
Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson has called on the State Government to “bite the bullet” over mental health services on the Sunshine Coast and fill a gaping hole in services. Ms Simpson said the State Government needed to fast-track planning for a step-down/step-up facility on the Coast to better manage patients and take pressure off…
The growing use of the drug ICE in our community and the devastating impact it is having on families is a huge concern. Not only is ICE highly addictive, it has become increasingly available and it is commonly used. It is heartbreaking to talk to grandparents who are full time carers for their grandchildren, due…
After haunting images of farmers struggling to manage drought conditions in Western Queensland, it’s shocking to now see tonnes of strawberries being dumped. We can only image the heartache of the families who are impacted by this crisis. We need to get behind our farmers more than ever before and support organisations like Care Outreach and…
We live in a great State but it should be so much better. If you want jobs for your kids and customers for your small business, you need a State Government that understands the economy. That’s why when the LNP team put the economy front and centre of our motion for debate this week we…
The Palasczcuk Labor Government has cut the police budget by about $80million in the last two budgets at a time when our population on the Sunshine Coast and in Queensland is booming. Meanwhile, the Premier and her ministers have blown their travel and staff budgets by about $1million. The State Government’s priorities are wrong. In…
I exposed Labor’s hypocrisy for calling on business to pay their bills on time when they aren’t leading by example. Many Queensland Government departments still have unacceptably high rates of late payments to their suppliers, many of whom are small business. The Department of Education paid 17.2% of its bills late and for the Department…
The truth about Labor’s lies, record debt, asset sales and tax rip offs Last week in Parliament, I spoke about how this incompetent State Labor Government is mucking up our economy, flogging off our assets, putting up taxes and burdening us with record levels of debt. There is a long list of all the things…