Small business shouldn’t be Govt’s Bank

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…

Vocational Training on Labor-induced life Support

New data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research* released today has uncovered the carnage Labor has wreaked on Queensland’s vocational training industry. Under the Palaszczuk Labor Government, program completion rates at TAFE and other government providers have decreased 42% since 2014. Compared with the LNP Government there are now 16,375 fewer Queenslanders per…

Celebrating National Volunteers Week

As an elderly lady living alone I wanted to tell you how impressed I am by my neighbours’ children who bring in my garbage bin for me every week. Little acts of kindness like this go a long way.   I believe we can all recount some of these stories where kindness have cut through the everyday business to lift…