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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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Vote-Buying by the Premier
My recent Media Release was sent to our local papers to highlight the Premier’s ignorance of the Callide and Bundaberg farmers and their regional needs. The overspending on the Cross
Radio Interviews
After crossing the floor in Queensland’s State Parliament in August, I spent a lot of time explaining the implications of the Environmental Protection and Other Legislation Bill. Many people do
Taking a Stand for Rural Queensland
Crossing the floor at Parliament is a rare occasion, but I was forced to do just that. (11 Aug 20) The vilification of Farmers and Miners, who are the heavy
Colin’s Roadside Tour 2020 – Pg 1
Visiting towns in Callide with the Marquee Mobile Office from Tuesday 9 June to Wednesday 8 July. Please phone my office for an appointment or simply drop in and say
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Queensland Health stories
The Labor Govt needs to fix this hospital problem ASAP the ramping situation is just criminal as are other aspects of the Qld health system with critical surgery being put off, no beds available, too little investment on our hospitals is the exact reason for this, Qld Govt has been in long enough to have made some sort of progress but appears to have done nothing much .............
Look at that bitch, wouldn't have a clue about the world outside their bubble. Politicians are just money grabbing parasites, sucking everything they can out of the country while, some idiots keep thinking they're doing a good job and doing the best for the country.🤦🤦🤦
Grace Grace full of shit
So true qld health top heavy to much duplication and fat needs trimming fast labour never get down to the nitty gritty all show
This state government should be ashamed of our health system.
This is a problem all over Australia
Graceless
*Australian Farmers are the Backbone of our Economy*
The Morrison-McCormack Government is backing Australian farmers to help secure Australia’s recovery, committing around $850.0 million in funding to drive competitiveness, growth and resilience in agriculture and back-in the industry’s goal of $100 billion by 2030.
This includes:
$15.0 million to support technical market access and increase Australia’s influence over global trade rules
$9.0 million to improve access to safe and effective agricultural and veterinary chemicals
$84.1 million for a range of measures to invest in our critical frontline biosecurity personnel and resources
$80.9 million for a range of measures to modernise our biosecurity ICT systems, employ new technologies at the border and improve data analytics for intelligence gathering
$235.1 million for a range of measures to strengthen the Government’s biosecurity partnerships with importers, companies, producers and the community. This includes $29.1 million to support communities to manage established pest animals and weeds
$32.1 million to expand the Biodiversity Stewardship Package
$129.8 million toward a National Soils Strategy Package
$67.0 million to improve the handling of organic waste
$5.4 million to fund projects that improve market transparency in the perishable agriculture goods industry, in response to the Perishable Agricultural Goods Inquiry by the ACCC
$1.5 million for Agricultural Innovation Australia to develop investment strategies for four new National Agricultural Innovation Priorities
$11.9 million to support innovation in the forestry sector, including extending the existing nine Regional Forestry Hubs and creating two new Hubs, and undertaking a feasibility study to build on the work of the National Institute for Forest Products Innovation
$0.9 million to extend and broaden the Tuna Champions program
$25.2 million to attract Australian workers to modern agriculture, particularly school leavers and young people
$4.6 million to build workforce management and planning skills for agricultural employers
$0.8 million for the Regional Investment Corporation to administer $37.5 million in existing loan funding for Plantation Development Concessional Loans, delivering on the government’s election commitment
An additional $5.0 million in 2021-22 to deliver the Rural Financial Counselling Service to farmers in hardship
$3.5 million to extend the Drought Communities Small Business Pilot Program for 6 months to continue to provide free financial counselling to small businesses in rural and regional Australia doing it tough
$14.7 million to waive repayment of Business Income Reconciliation debts accrued under the Farm Household Allowance (FHA), in line with recommendations of the 2018 independent review of the FHA
$170.5 million through the Future Drought Fund, which provides a sustained investment of $100 million each year to build drought preparedness. This funding will deliver a range of programs and activities to support the long-term drought resilience and preparedness of primary producers, rural and regional communities
$61.1 million to establish the National Recovery and Resilience Agency (NRRA) – for more information visit www.recovery.gov.au
$615.5 million over the next six years for the mitigation focused Preparing Australia grants program
$92.1 million to enhance Emergency Management Australia’s (EMA) disaster preparedness and response capabilities, comprising of a Common Operating Picture for near real-time situational awareness, designing a National Messaging System, and a national emergency management exercise capability
$209.7 million to establish and operate the Australian Climate Service to support the climate and disaster risk information needs of our emergency management agencies EMA and the NRRA
$15.0 million to support technical market access and increase Australia’s influence over global trade rules
$9.0 million to improve access to safe and effective agricultural and veterinary chemicals
$84.1 million for a range of measures to invest in our critical frontline biosecurity personnel and resources
$80.9 million for a range of measures to modernise our biosecurity ICT systems, employ new technologies at the border and improve data analytics for intelligence gathering
$235.1 million for a range of measures to strengthen the Government’s biosecurity partnerships with importers, companies, producers and the community. This includes $29.1 million to support communities to manage established pest animals and weeds
$32.1 million to expand the Biodiversity Stewardship Package
$129.8 million toward a National Soils Strategy Package
$67.0 million to improve the handling of organic waste
$5.4 million to fund projects that improve market transparency in the perishable agriculture goods industry, in response to the Perishable Agricultural Goods Inquiry by the ACCC
$1.5 million for Agricultural Innovation Australia to develop investment strategies for four new National Agricultural Innovation Priorities
$11.9 million to support innovation in the forestry sector, including extending the existing nine Regional Forestry Hubs and creating two new Hubs, and undertaking a feasibility study to build on the work of the National Institute for Forest Products Innovation
$0.9 million to extend and broaden the Tuna Champions program
$25.2 million to attract Australian workers to modern agriculture, particularly school leavers and young people
$4.6 million to build workforce management and planning skills for agricultural employers
$0.8 million for the Regional Investment Corporation to administer $37.5 million in existing loan funding for Plantation Development Concessional Loans, delivering on the government’s election commitment
An additional $5.0 million in 2021-22 to deliver the Rural Financial Counselling Service to farmers in hardship
$3.5 million to extend the Drought Communities Small Business Pilot Program for 6 months to continue to provide free financial counselling to small businesses in rural and regional Australia doing it tough
$14.7 million to waive repayment of Business Income Reconciliation debts accrued under the Farm Household Allowance (FHA), in line with recommendations of the 2018 independent review of the FHA
$170.5 million through the Future Drought Fund, which provides a sustained investment of $100 million each year to build drought preparedness. This funding will deliver a range of programs and activities to support the long-term drought resilience and preparedness of primary producers, rural and regional communities
$61.1 million to establish the National Recovery and Resilience Agency (NRRA) – for more information visit www.recovery.gov.au
$615.5 million over the next six years for the mitigation focused Preparing Australia grants program
$92.1 million to enhance Emergency Management Australia’s (EMA) disaster preparedness and response capabilities, comprising of a Common Operating Picture for near real-time situational awareness, designing a National Messaging System, and a national emergency management exercise capability
$209.7 million to establish and operate the Australian Climate Service to support the climate and disaster risk information needs of our emergency management agencies EMA and the NRRA
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All lives matter. Senator Matthew Canavan is re-introducing a Bill to Federal Parliament to stop pregnancy terminations based on gender... protecting the innocent lives of the unborn. No one should terminate a pregnancy to select the sex of their child. All lives should matter.In this pandemic we've done everything we can to protect the lives of those most vulnerable, but in every day life we don't offer the same protections to the lives of the unborn.
I write this week in Central Queensland Today this week on the Right to Life March last week in Brisbane.
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We have sacrificed a lot to protect life over the past year. We shut down shops and schools, we have closed our borders and it remains illegal to leave Australia without permission.
I have been pleasantly surprised by how willing Australians have been to protect life even when the costs have been large and those
who were most at risk of coronavirus, elderly Australians, only made up a small share of our overall population.
Not only did we ‘flatten the curve’, we have all but eliminated coronavirus as a major threat in Australia to date.
However, there are other lives that we have not offered the same protections. Unborn lives do not seem to matter as much.
In 2018, the Queensland government decriminalised
abortions up to the point of birth.
Since then, abortions have risen by 58 per cent. We are not flattening the curve on abortion rates.
The Queensland law now says that “a medical practitioner may perform a termination on a woman who is more than 22 weeks pregnant”.
We know from the latest ultrasound technologies that at 22 weeks a baby clasps her hands, sucks her thumb, yawns, stretches, gets
the hiccups, covers her ears to a loud sound and even smiles. At that age a baby can feel pain. Modern foetal surgery administers anaesthesia but there are no requirements for abortions to provide pain relief.
The decriminalisation of abortion has also given an implicit licence to practices that most would see as abhorrent. Earlier this year an IVF doctor, David Molloy, revealed that some of his patients had admitted to terminating a pregnancy when a test indicated their baby was of the ‘wrong sex’.
And in some Melbourne suburbs, where abortion has also been recently decriminalised, more than 120 boys are now born for every
100 girls. The normal ratio is 105 to 100. As Dr Kristina Edvardsson from La Trobe University concluded that “some women may be terminating pregnancies after discovering they are expecting a girl”.
We should make it clear that no one should terminate a pregnancy to select the sex of their child. A few years ago, former Senator John Madigan, put forward a bill that would make it clear that no Medicare funds should be provided to anyone terminating a regnancy or an abortion based on sex.
While such a law would be difficult to enforce, we should have a law written in black and white that outlaws such an abhorrent
practice. At the March for Life rally in Brisbane on Saturday, I announced that I would re-introduce Senator John Madigan’s bill to outlaw any funding for sex-selection abortions.
We do what we can to protect the lives of all Australians. To protect life is also why I argued that we should help Australians return from
Covid ravaged India. I understand that many want to keep coronavirus out at all costs.
But if Australian mateship is to mean anything, it should mean that we help our mates out when they are in desperate need. Yes taking
Australians from India would create a risk for us. But if you are not willing to sacrifice anything for a mate, you’re not really a mate.
The government has announced that it will restart flights from India for returning Australians to return by May 15 which is welcome
news. Protecting lives from the coronavirus is important but they are not the only lives at risk and we should do all we can to live by the slogan that all lives matter, including the unborn.
Couldn’t agree more
Hope the Bill passes through.
I've raised some current issues that need addressing by Department Transport and Main Roads and the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator in Parliament last night.
Lee Crane Hire has 55 machines requiring daily single-trip permits every time they travel to and from a job to service local business, mines, power stations and resource industries in CQ. It can take WEEKS for each permit to be issued, at a cost of $75 each trip, a fine of $685 is automatically issued if the permit hasn't been processed by the Department in time. This has become a bureaucratic red-tape, revenue raising exercise and needs to be addressed!
The federal Government has allocated $150M to financial year 2024 for bridge replacement. I've called on the State Government to match the funding and bring up to standard the road infrastructure in rural and regional Queensland....
Typical Bureaurocratic Stuffing Around !
That's not right . Well said , Colin Boyce MP - Member for Callide.
Good luck...every State owned Road,Highway in Queensland needs big bucks spent on them, and by the time the beaurocrats finish“ reviewing” everything there is only enough money left for “ band-aid” fixes of our Roads/Highways.
Gender quotas for parliamentarians or any other profession does not work.
This notion of Quotas in different professions is just ridiculous. We have government departments and services, banks and other businesses mandating 50% gender equity, when the best person for the job should be employed.
I have heard of some banks not being able to fill positions because they can’t find enough women to apply for the position.
What would happen if we had a gender quota for teachers? We wouldn’t have enough teachers, because there aren’t enough males that want to teach.
Wow ,suprised to see this in Qld,, not surprised that Ian Stewert is the instigator..
Get the best people for the job, regardless of gender
And when these recruits crumble on the job the tax payer is left with the costs of mental health and other services for someone who should not be a Police officer
Just shows how stupid the Queensland Chinese Labor party is , a quota instead of ability , no wonder our children service department helps kill young children !
Another day at the office for the crony Queensland Labor Government 🙄
A lack of healthy male figures in the life of young boys and girls leads to problems in later life, especially when so many families are broken. Gender quotas for male teachers thanks if we are insisting on them elsewhere.
What a joke
Bloody idiots if you can't do the job you should not have it not a lesser standard
People should be judged on their skill set and character, when looking for a job, nothing less, nothing more.
It’s time for these dipsticks to wake up and get attached to the real world. For God’s sake...... Chinese labor party indeed. Best person for the job regardless of sex, skin colour or language...... disgraceful
Now all female police officers will be seen as getting the job because they are female, regardless of suitability.
Nothing new about Queensland.
Just glad someone stood up n said this is a problem
Gendaer quotas are a joke, it leads to people being put in positions they are not qualified for and under perform.
“Woke Pandering Nonsense” Now there’s a slogan I can get behind Do woke lives matter?
What ever happened to the separation of powers who vetted
What ever happened to the separation of powers,who vetted the applicants,and where are the so called civil libertarians they made plenty of noise in the 80 s O H that’s right its the Labor Party now, some one in this current government made this decision.
If you don’t meet the requirements you don’t get the bloody job simple . This gender rubbish has to stop 🛑
Qld the dumb state!!!!
It’s funny how people want the best surgeon when the need medical care. They don’t ask for the best quota.
what do you expect
Typical of the Labour Government to throw the quota in the lap of the commissioner then run......... 4 more years of there morons 🤬
As a RN, the majority of Nurses are Women . Men are entering the profession in greater numbers . If they applied the rationale for equal numbers . The Hospitals , would be facing a severe shortfall .
The Crime and Corruption Commission's report on the processes around selections to meet gender quotas was beautifully scathing.