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I am pleased to have been elected to represent Callide in the Queensland State Parliament.
The Callide community is a great place to live, work and raise a family.
When we work together we can ensure job security and opportunity, access to health care, a strong education system and a safer community. To do so we need small and medium businesses to grow and create more jobs, and to build transport and other infrastructure that meets our needs.
I am interested to hear your views on these and other topics. I hold regular mobile offices in the towns in our electorate, in addition to my electorate office in Biloela.
I welcome your views and suggestions. I will work hard to assist you if you require my help on any matter affecting you or your family, in addition to promoting the interests of everyone in our electorate of Callide.
Colin Boyce MP
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Obviously the climate has constantly changed.
We found this petrified hollow log in a sandstone cliff wall approximately 500m above current sea level.
Millions of years old.
They find you in there po 🤣🤣
Geoengineering is the reason. Man made Climate change.
I've seen petrified wood and it doesn't look like that.
During the 1970's one of our high school excursions was to the brick works quarry at Bexhill NSW to see the marine fossils, approx. 35klm from the ocean. I would be surprised if these sort of excursions happen these days.
That’s because they didn’t have a tax on climate back then!!
I wish people would realise that we are living in an inter-glacial period. The normal state of the earth for the last several million years is that half of Europe and North America is covered in ice several miles thick. And sooner rather than later it will revert to the Ice Age. Climate is never static.
That’s so funny totally debunks the rising sea levels 😂🤣
Years ago the trucking company l worked for carted feature rocks to cnr of Lindesay and Margared Sts in Twmba. One of them was a large petrified tree stump. Judhing from the grain of the wood l would say it was a large cypress tree.
If you go into the Pilliga their is a cave full of sea shells. That’s only 500km from the ocean.
I have a one appr 45 cms tall and about same across the top. It has a small hollow where a fig tree is growing. We had a farm at Mutdapilly south of Ipswich Qld where there was tons of petrified rock plus a whole log and the odd piece of petrified Palm.
And will keep changing till the end of time
So many students have no idea of such changes or the mechanisms that drive them
Yes ..... Mother Nature is amazing...... 👍
This one is probably due to tectonic plate movement rather than sea levels, we ( our decedents in 100 generations) should see sea levels falling as the southern hemisphere moves toward an Ice Age.
I wouldn't say millions of years. The bible tells us when that log was washed up and deposited in that sand bank well above high tide now, the whole earth was covered with water.
As I just mentioned in a reply to a comment. I find it hard to believe Britain was once a tropical country, with Elephants.
That’s very, very cool Col. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
You do all know that the movement of techtonic plates results in uplift which raises parts of the earths crust and lowers other parts? Given enough time mountain ranges are formed from such processes. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_formation
The climate has always changed, so has the landscape. You just want to justify high taxes to fund voter blocks.
just because the climate has changed over tens of millions of years by natural causes is not a justification to change it over a couple of hundred years by unnatural means
Check out the history of the Black Sea. The UK used to be a shallow coral sea 230 million years ago then it vanished..... Not a coal fired power station in sight. The Great Lakes were created by glacial retreat around 20 thousand years ago..... Again, not a coal fired power station in sight. Who'd have thought!!
fires have always occurred naturally as well. Doesn't mean I can come on to your property and set it alight, burning down your sheds and house and killing your stock though does it? That would be a crime.
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WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT AUSTRALIA DAY?
written by Ray Payne OAM.
Australia Day does not celebrate the arrival of the first fleet or the invasion of anything.
Captain Cook did not arrive in Australia on the 26th of January. The Landing of Captain Cook in Sydney happened on the 28th of April 1770 - not on the 26th of January 1770.
The First Fleet arrived in Botany Bay on the 18th of January. The 26th was chosen as Australia Day for a different reason; however, Captain Cook's landing was included in Australia Day celebrations as a reminder of a significant historical event.
Since the extravagant bicentenary celebrations of 1988, when Sydney-siders decided Captain Cook's landing should become the focus of the Australia Day commemoration, the importance of this date for all Australians has begun to fade.
Now, a generation later, it's all but lost.
This is because our politicians and educators have not been doing a good job promoting the day. Our politicians have not been advertising the real reason for Australia Day, and our educators have not been teaching our children the importance of the 26th of January to all Australians.
The media, as usual, is happy to twist the truth for the sake of controversy.
In recent years, the media has helped fan the flames of discontent among the Aboriginal community. Many are now so offended by what they see as a celebration of the beginning of the darkest days of Aboriginal history, they want the date changed.
Various local Councils are seeking to remove themselves from Australia Day celebrations, even refusing to participate in citizenship ceremonies, and calls are going out to have Australia Day on a different day.
The big question is, why has the Government allowed this misconception to continue?
Captain Cook didn't land on the 26th of January. So changing the date of any celebration of Captain Cook's landing would not have any impact on Australia Day, but maybe it would clear the way for the truth about Australia Day.
The reality is, the Aborigines in this country suffered terribly under the hands of British colonialism. This is as much Australia's history as the landing of the first fleet, and both should be remembered, equally. Both should be taught, side by side, in our schools.
Australians of today abhor what was done under British governance to the Aborigines. We abhor what was done under British governance to the Irish and many other cultures around the world.
So, after the horrors of WWII, we decided to fix it. We became our own people.
On the 26th of January 1949, the Australian nationality came into existence when the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 was enacted. That was the day we were first called Australians and allowed to travel with Passports as Australians.
Under the Nationality Act 1920 (Cth), all Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders born after January 1, 1921, gained the status of British subjects. In 1949, therefore, they automatically became Australian citizens under the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948.
Before that special date, all people living in Australia, including Aborigines born after 1921, were called 'British Subjects' and forced to travel on British Passports and fight in British wars.
We all became Australians on the same day!
This is why we celebrate Australia Day on the 26th of January!
This was the day Australians became free to make our own decisions about which wars we would fight and how our citizens would be treated. It was the day Aborigines were declared Australians.
Until this date, Aborigines were not protected by law. For the first time since Cook's landing, this new Act gave Aboriginal Australians by inference and precedent the full protection of Australian law.
Because of this Act, the government became free to help Aborigines, and since that day much has been done to assist Aboriginal Australians, including saying 'sorry' for the previous atrocities done before this law came into being.
This was a great day for all Australians!
This is why the 26th of January is the day new Australians receive their citizenship. It is a day which celebrates the implementation of the Nationality and Citizenship Act of 1948 - the Act which gave freedom and protection to the first Australians and gives all Australians, old and new, the right to live under the protection of Australian Law, united as one nation.
Now, isn't that cause for celebration?
Education is key! There is a great need for education on the real reason we celebrate Australia Day on the 26th of January. This reason needs to be advertised and taught in schools. We all need to remember this one very special day in Australia's history, when freedom came to all Australians.
What was achieved that day is something for which all Australians can be proud!
We need to remember both the good and the bad in our history, but the emphasis must be the freedom and unity all Australians now have, because of what was done on the 26th of January 1949, to allow all of us to live without fear in a land of peace.
Isn't it time all Australians were taught the real reason we celebrate Australia Day on Jan 26th?
Ray Payne OAM
Absolutely.
Now that’s educational.
Very well explained.
Would have thought all Australians would understand the significance of 26 January, our educational system must be severely lacking ☹️
Australia Day is 26th January. Get rid of the abc and ban that cricket mob from using the word Australia now.
Political propaganda is not based on facts
good ole ray needs to be fact checked on some of that dribble
Karen Burt this is the first one I was talking about. It's a good read
Shared this to cricket Australia the other day. I doubt they know their history
Exactly❤
Thank you, that’s exactly what had to be told. All I seen on other Aussie day posts were aboriginal anger against ignorant whites for invading their wonderful organized land
It's obvious that those with an agenda do not want the truth to be publicized. But it must be publicized. All media should know better, especially our taxpayer funded biased, left wing ALPBC. Shame on them for not promoting the truth.
Happy Australia Day 🇦🇺 ❤️
What I can’t understand is why are most of the awards being given out this weekend and not on the day itself is this the thin edge of the wedge to shift Australia Day just to appease the minority again??? Bloody spineless bureaucracy
Happy Australia day to every one that love Australia and Australia day
Happy AUSTRALIA DAY 👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Yes let’s all celebrate unity with all of our citizens
perhaps you could tell that to our Indigenous relative's so they might get the picture
Why is this being fact checked, because some loony lefty muppet doesn't like the truth, twists it to suit them... Why is nothing from the loony left questioned... Good old shitbook agenda pushing...
Good
What evidence is there that the aborigines were badly treated? I don’t believe that happened under Philip?
www.aap.com.au/no-this-is-not-the-real-reason-australia-day-is-celebrated-on-january-26/?fbclid=I...
EVERYTHING.
This decision by the ABC is unAustralian. It is a disgraceful act aimed to create division on our National Day.
If the ABC don’t want to celebrate our National Day, then why are we giving them a billion dollars a year?
No more Government funding Believe me You won't be mixed
Got to be a joke !
How fucked up is this
How rude
Time for the Govt to step in. Don’t pander to the pussies
Happy Conquerors Day Everybody! 🇳🇿
What else would you expect from the socialists ABC. Anyway you can’t be invaded and have land rights as well. If you are invaded you are a conquered people and entitled to nothing. That piece of paper in Canberra is useless then. We just want the government to say sorry and all will be well. Sure.
Promoting division and unrest on a day that should be about unity a celebration of the future and of all we can achieve yes important to remember the mistakes of the past and put them behind us, look to the future and celebrate be mindful of the past so as not to repeat the same mistakes .
No Damned way. Michelle LandryGeorge Christensen
Absolutely disgusted with the ABC and everything they do. Stopped watching it ages ago but I strongly object to my taxes paying the salaries of those irrelevant, conceited, over educated intellectual vacuums.
Ita Buttrose I cannot believe you. I had so much faith and belief. I’m done with abc
They are no longer Journalists they are Authors, mainly Fiction!
Sack Ita!
And so sais these Leftist Moronic Fkwits ...
You have to be joking!!!
Defund ABC
This institution is funded by public money, we say shut it down Morrison or we'll end up like the US.
Obviously $1bn a year is not enough for them to do any research and or education of the historical reasons for celebrating Australia Day on the 26th. They care more for stirring and goading one of the best governments we’ve had in decades. It is far more expedient for them to use the ignorance of their supporters. The first fleet arrived on the 20th January. The 26th celebrates our independence in the mid 20th century from Britain. Something we should stand as one and be proud of. Instead we have the rantings of the uninformed being used to take aim at the government.
Another empty statement from the ABC. They have no power to 'rename anything.
ABC officially a woke faggot divisive organisation all funding should be stopped
It can’t be so!
If this is true I genuinely hope that all the people listening to the abc on daily basis, as I do, get there rural news/weather and general news etc elsewhere and turn the dial. What disgrace
Terrible for ABC to take political or biased views. Can the Govt step in?
Since when does the ABC have the right to name national days of significance.
Dr Bruce Chater and Mrs Anne Chater O.A.M have lived in Theodore for forty years.
Bruce came to Theodore as a young doctor and continues to provide an outstanding service to rural health.
Bruce and Anne have been tireless volunteers in their community and continually strive for better rural medical outcomes.
Lucky community
Fantastic Doctor
Well done great to hear
A great deal Of respect for Bruce and Anne Theodore would not be the greatest Place in Australia to live without them but let’s keep that secret
We are so lucky ☘to have Doctor Bruce and Anne Chater 🥰God bless them🙏💝💝
Legion 🇦🇺🌹🐸🦋
They are two well respected folk in Theodore and a very good Doctor. Have been to him many times.