Special Wildlife Reserves Bill 2018
I spoke against this Bill on 27 March 2019. Unfortunately, the Green/Labor alliance pushed this through Parliament in a similar manner to last year’s Vegetation Management Laws. The far reaching consequences of this Bill has again not been considered, including the impact on neighbours who will be affected by the
Justice Legislation (Links to Terrorist Activity) Amendment Bill 2018
My speech in Parliament on Thursday 28 March 2019 was in support of this Bill. However, it raises the question of what denotes terrorism, and whether the recent invasion of feedlots should be treated as an environmental terrorism act. Click here to watch this speech in full.
More Grants Available
Grants can be the difference in our communities, getting the funding needed to assist with worth-while projects that can impact on our towns. We have received a few new ones, different to those that you can access from our “Callide Community” page Queensland Country Good for Good – applications close
Sun Safe Callide Schools
My Inaugural School Marquee Give-away has been drawn. Thank you to those Principals who responded, with some great suggestions on what I could do to help their schools. Winners of this first round were: Banana State School Chinchilla State School Gayndah State School Monto State School Moura State School Mulgildie
Irrigators & Dieback tour with Gerard Rennick
I spent a couple of days (5th & 6th March 2019) showing Gerard Rennick (LNP Senate candidate) around the Moura, Theodore and Taroom districts. We visited the Nathan Dam site, irrigation projects at Moura and inspected pasture dieback. Pasture dieback is having a huge economic effect in Callide. Water security for Callide and
Year of Outback Tourism 2019
Funding has been announced for the first round of the Outback Events Program – between $1,000 and $100,000 is available to eligible organisations across 27 local government areas, including the Banana Shire Council. Round one closes on 1 April 2019. Please go to the Program Guidelines for further information on