I was privileged to meet with a number of young people during Queensland’s Women’s Week 2021 (QWW) at a local school as part of those celebrations. My job as guest speaker was hopefully to encourage and inspire them to shine as a young leaders who can help unlock the potential of others and have the…
The Waste Reduction and Recycling (Plastic Items) Amendment bill was passed through Parliament. This means that from 1 September 2021 a ban on single-use plastic and polystyrene items. The following single-use plastic will be banned in Queensland: straws: regular straws, flexible straws, straws with a scoop, cocktail straws and bubble tea straws cutlery: knives, forks,…
Ambulance ramping is back at Queensland Hospitals and this is a big concern for the Queensland Public Health system. The Sunshine Coast University Hospital reported the highest number of patients in the state ramped at 48% – that means a patient is waiting in an ambulance longer than the recommended 30 minutes before receiving treatment. …
There’s a phenomenon at the moment causing extra challenges. On one hand there is no doubt we are experiencing population pressure with the Sunshine Coast one of the most popular places to be, but on the other we are seeing some local schools actually lose student numbers. This isn’t uniform but it shows some of…
Behind the mask – R U OK? Time for kindness and care A lot has happened in the last week – let alone the last year. As I was writing my parliamentary update on hot issues that matter to thousands locally (housing, local infrastructure, access to hospital services, ambulance ramping), that wily disruptor of the…
The Department of Transport and Main Roads has released a funded plan to help improve this very busy intersection which has more than 20,000 vehicles passing through here everyday. The $10 million intersection upgrade project will improve safety and capacity by adjusting lane configurations to provide more efficient access to Sugar Road and the Sunshine…
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 . Some of the Queensland State Grants that are currently available: Gambling Community Benefit Fund, Round 108 – applications close 28…
17 March at 6pm, there is a Mass Transit Community Meeting with Q&A Panel being facilitated by the Beach Matters Group panel with speakers and representatives from several groups of which I will be participating in. Registration is essential, to RSVP click here There continues to be a lot of controversy over the proposed mass…
Council’s Mass Transit plan, which includes possible light rail between Maroochydore and Caloundra, is a mass diversion that threatens to put more Sunshine Coast residents into traffic jams due to much higher density levels and bad transport planning. It also threatens to wipe out most of the parking along Alexandra Parade, including up over the…
Broken promises of delayed infrastructure and bigger debt was the disappointing outcome of the “lost opportunity” State Budget. The State Labor Government has broken their promise to deliver the Mooloolah River Interchange Business Case mid 2020[1] with evidence the project’s planning had been pushed out into 2021-22. Anyone that uses the dangerous interchange near the Mooloolah River would…