If your organisation or community group is looking for available grants, my office maybe able to assist. I am also happy to provide letters of support, to request a letter of support, please click HERE . Below is some of the Queensland State Grants that are currently available: Business Basics Grant Program – $5,000 –…
Sunshine Coast Council received thousands of submissions from those wanting to provide input into the future of mass transit on the Sunshine Coast between Caloundra and Maroochydore. Council’s consultants are currently working through the feedback received. We await their advice which will come out in a final Options Analysis Report to be presented at a…
Fast rail to Maroochydore is different to the highly controversial light rail mass transit system and not to be confused. Fast rail is rail from Maroochydore CBD to Brisbane within an hour using the preserved corridor known as CAMCOS (CAboolture to Maroochydore COrridor Study). The Sunshine Coast Mass Transit Project (most commonly associated with Light…
There is good news locally in the fight for better infrastructure. The submissions for feedback closed on 27 August for the proposed design for the Mooloolah River Interchange (MRI) and the $360m joint State-Federal Funded Stage 1. For link to map CLICK HERE I welcome this as a big step in the right direction but…
The Premier says the government decisions on COVID are guided by the health advice, so why is the $528,000 of taxpayer funded sentiment polling even needed? She is keeping Queenslanders in the dark by refusing to release either the health advice or the very expensive polling. If key COVID decisions are not being made on…
Up we go again…in the quarter to June, ramping at Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) has climbed to a disturbing 52%, up 19.5% compared to 12 months earlier. This data is according to the new Queensland Health data. SCUH now has the fourth worst ramping levels in the state. That means that over 50% of all patients…
COVID-19 Business Support Grants for lockdown-impacted businesses – close on 16 November 2021: These grants are based on the payroll size of your eligible business. The Federal Government has stepped in for this funding and matched the funding effectively doubling what businesses would have otherwise received, which was a fantastic announcement. COVID-19 Business Support Grants…
Round 2 of the Business Grants Program opens today at 9am, Wednesday, 8 September. These grants are separate from the COVID Business Support Grants (see below). This grant program is competitively assessed. Not all applications will be funded. The Business Basics grants program provides support to businesses to increase core skills and adopt best practice. This support includes…
The lockdowns have hit many local businesses hard, and I’ve been out since the last lockdown lifted visiting as many businesses as possible to check on them and how they are fairing. It is worth nothing that Round 2 of the $5,000 Business Basic Supports Grant open on Wednesday, 8 September and last time the…
There’s been a lot of controversy about vaccinations, lockdowns and restrictions. Ultimately, it is a personal choice people take to get a vaccination with the advice of their GP. I appreciate not everyone agrees, but I support encouraging people to have that conversation and for the uptake of vaccinations as a key part of giving…