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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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Attention ART LOVERS & CREATIVE PEOPLE in Drillham & Miles districts:
Drillham State School P&C are hosting a 2 day Art & Craft Weekend in Miles on 19-20th June with something for everyone in the many workshops, including:
*Wood Whittling; *Calligraphy; *Wild Basket Making; *Mosaics; *Leather creations; *Cake Icing;
*Cake Topper floral sprays; *Charcoal and Watercolour Mixed Media painting; *Macraweaving
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Share the details with your arty contacts and make a date of it to support the Drillham State School P&C.
For more information: Contact Madonna 0417 775 494 or email: drillhampandc@gmail.com
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Love the photos.
Beautiful capture enjoy best wishes from Catherine Tone and Grace
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Mr. Boyce MP, when are you going to get those dumb arse's down there in that bubble to drop the subsidies from wind and solar as to create a level playing field. All you state/say to them is " if wind and solar are so cheap, so great they don't the subsidies'." Also why is Tassie so dam cheap compared to the rest of the nation?????
Exactly! and the other point about using coal only at night, is that coal-fired power stations work much more efficiently, if producing constant power - having them switch on and off to provide power only at peak times is very inefficient/costly. Gas works better for providing just peak power. Ideally, we should use hydro (like the Tully-Millstream power station, that was shelved in the 1990's)
If the greens/ renewables are serious about power, they need to work out how to have power 24hrs a day from renewables, and then push for those things to be implemented. The solutions are pumped hydro (dams! - we can't have that); batteries (great except most are only sized for 4 hrs supply - night time is longer than that); wind power (intermittant, and don't forget about the birds that get killed)
Wait till they go full renewable. Candles
The unreliables will put us back in the dark ages.
Time to move to tassie by the look of the power prices.
Absolutely correct.
Anyone done the math.... what has been the total spend Australia wide since 2010 on renewables inc subsidies and what Gw generation have we got? And for that Gw what would have the equivalent nuclear power station have cost? Just curious.
I call Tim Clark and Fredrik Jutfelt and their team the Magnificent 7 because they just want truth in science despite risking their entire careers being whistleblowers. They have, yet again, exposed very worrying evidence of possible fraud at the heart of the JCU’s Coral Reef Centre in a new report published in the prestigious SCIENCE magazine. The lack of a proper investigation and signs of a cover up are further evidence of serious quality assurance problems in our environmental science institutions.
But this is just the latest in a line of potential, and actual, cases of fraud. It started in 2017 when the Magnificent 7 exposed Oona Lonnstedt for having fabricated data when she joined Uppsala University shortly after leaving JCU. Then, a large number of fish behaviour experiments including some by Lonnstedt’s supervisors was checked by the Magnificent 7 and ALL of the work was found to be 100% wrong. How can that happen?
Much of this questionable work is doom-science about the effect of climate change and agriculture on the reef. Apparently, fish act very strangely in high CO2 environments or on “degraded reefs”. For example, their sense of smell supposedly gets distorted and they end up being eaten by predators. Clark’s work showed this was not the case.
The latest allegations concern senior scientists associated with the JCU coral reef centre, and it is not just the Magnificent 7 making the allegations - it is backed up many other scientists around the world.
www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/does-ocean-acidification-alter-fish-behavior-fraud-allegations-cr...
From this report, it seems that the universities (not just JCU) don’t want to investigate this properly, and neither do the funding bodies, or the science journals. They would rather cover up problems than investigate. One of the Magnificent 7’s critics, Prof Portner, co-chair of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group , said “If such a controversy gets outside of the community, it’s harmful because the whole community loses credibility.” I find this statement much more worrying than some possible fraud about fish. Truth is apparently secondary to the reputation of the “community.”
I was fired after saying that work from the JCU Coral Reef Centre could not be trusted due to systemic lack of quality assurance. I was not referring to possible fraud, but the system of peer review which has a roughly 50% failure rate. Roughly half of published science has flaws. These latest examples are just spectacular examples of problems with quality assurance.
There is more than enough evidence that the Australian Research Council, that funds the Coral Reef Centre, should investigate. According to this article, the ARC seems to have done nothing, certainly nothing publicly.
It is time that the science organisations stop pretending there are no quality problems. This denial of the quality assurance problems is far worse than any possible fraud that may have been committed by individual scientists.
The major institutions are deceiving the public about the reliability of the work they are producing. We are supposed to trust them but how can we?
We need an Office of Science Review to check important science results that are used for public policy.
www.thegwpf.com/peter-ridd-does-co2-cause-coral-reef-fish-to-alter-behaviour/
www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/analysis-challenges-slew-studies-claiming-ocean-acidification-alt...
joannenova.com.au/.../busted-reef-fish-arent.../
www.timeshighereducation.com/.../ex-judge...
www.sciencemag.org/.../can-you-spot-duplicates...
Worrying........
JCU crooked as a dogs hind leg absolutely no credibility whatsoever, been caught so many times...
Pity the poor student who is failed for not repeating the lies.