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I am pleased to have been re-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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Keep the lights on in Queensland
My Adjournment speech (25 May 2021) was on the proposed Smoky Creek Solar Farm, and comparing it to the Callide Power Station which has been established in Biloela since 1988.
Single-Trip Permits for Bridges in Callide
I spoke in Parliament (12 May 2021) on the current money-making scheme of the State Government where our local crane hire companies are being slugged for single-trip permits every time
Water Security in Callide
Having met with SunWater in Brisbane during the 11-13 May Parliament sitting, I am gravely concerned about the removal of the gates on the Callide Dam for inspection. The water
COVID-19 Vaccinations
If you would like to be vaccinated for COVID-19, there are many locations in Queensland where this is now possible. Bearing in mind that there are limited vaccines available at
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The world has increased their use of cheap coal to keep their people warm in winter.
Australia’s clean coal will continue to be in demand from the rest of the world well past 2050.
Queensland should be doing the same, building low emission power stations to replace any near the end of their life.
Australia produces 1% of the worlds Co2 emissions. Closing all our coal fired power stations will have zero effect on the worlds emissions.
You won’t find this information shared to any Labor pages, it will upset their Green friends.
It certainly will be in demand. India and China have no intentions of quitting using coal. They are building hundreds of new power stations. We are the mugs who are paying record power prices. It will get much worse if Labor get in. We will then be paying more for an unreliable supply of electricity
And to think if Countries stopped using the cheap dirty coal they could us our clean HELE coal and world emissions would reduce by 40%, but I guess that` makes too much common sense...
Just build clean coal power stations
thats the best you can come up with....more of the same?...sure there is a transition point , but that past about 100 years ago.....wake up and be innovative...[that means different]...
100% Colin! Agreed, QLD should be building low emissions power stations to replace the unreliable and dirty coal-fired power stations that litter Queensland's regions. Well said!
I totally agree Colin, keep the coal fired power stations going and build more of them. Australia should turn their back on the biggest scam of all time the climate change hoax.
They would say that...just like they are saying the sea level is rising..
The fanatical, brain dead alarmists will still not wake up to reality.
You will be winging when the renewables don’t keep up and power is unaffordable we are a nation of stupid people listening to and supporting the clowns who are supposed to be running the nation
Hope so
But wait, the world is ending how can this be
Colin Boyce MP - Member for Callide Better tell your mates Scott Morrison (ScoMo) and Tim Wilson - Federal Liberal Member for Goldstein
Consultation is open for everyone in Australia to have their say on the draft National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022–2032.
Go to engage.dss.gov.au before 31 January 2022 to view the draft National Plan and give your feedback via the questionnaire.
Don’t miss the chance to have your say on this important national document that will pave the way to ending family, domestic and sexual violence in Australia.
More financial security would take a lot of stress out of most households
Like a man isn't a victim to ? Sorry ladies !
Define the terms, domestic, family, and sexual violence.
Needle rape is worse than any domestic violence , I can say I’ve had both, Needle attack is horrific
FFS!...this is a no brainer ! The fact that you need to promote this as an issue demonstrates how WOKE my once proud LNP have become and why you have now been relegated to the same level as pathetic Labor and the putrid Greens. Get a grip and stop pandering. You've lost me.
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Thanks Colin. Good to see the coal industry paying some due compensation back to affected communities.
Qld fisheries scientists have measured a 50% INCREASE in tiger prawns on the central Qld coast over the last 30 years, but claim the area is over-fished and fishing needs to be REDUCED by 50%*. Australia nowadays IMPORTS about 75% of its seafood despite having the third largest area of ocean of any country, and small population. This has occurred due to the progressive closure of fisheries around the country, often based on highly questionable “scientific” arguments.
The report (see link below) on which the 50% reduction is based is a classic example of the very poor quality assurance systems of much of the environmental sciences. The reduction is based on an incredibly dubious assessment of the prawn stock going back to 1941. The scientists compare the prawn stock now with 1941, and ‘calculate’ by how much fishing must be reduced to make the fishery ‘sustainable’.
I have made a short video with the details www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCqeR5weQZI
The graphs (fig 3) presented in the report purport to show the prawn stock going back to 1941. The data from 1990 is much more reliable than the previous data because far better records have been kept in the last decades than in the 40s and 50s. It has useful uncertainty margins. Remarkably, the more reliable recent data shows that stocks have increased in the last 30 years. The scientists agree there are more prawns on this coast today than in 1990. So, it cannot be claimed that the fishery is in any trouble.
The use of fishing catch and effort data from the 40s and 50s is fraught with huge difficulties. In those days, fishermen did not record the number of hours they fished each year, where they fished, how they fished, and how much they caught like they are compelled by regulation to do today. So the 1941 figure has a HUGE margin for error and is essentially unusable as a basis for comparison.
Quite incredibly, the report does not deal whatsoever with the uncertainty estimate of the 1941 data even though all the conclusions are based on this crucial figure. This goes against one of the fundamental principles of science. There are many other instances in the report which indicate a fundamental lack of appreciation of data uncertainty. This is a common theme among environmental scientist.
Therefore, this is yet another example of where better quality assurance is needed for environmental science that is being used to make government regulation. Can we rely on this report?
The fishing industry on the Qld coast has been cut in half in the last 20 years by government regulation. The present proposal will continue this trajectory and strangle a viable, environmentally sustainable fishery. The result is that the we will import more seafood from Thailand and other countries. Do you think those imports will be more environmentally sustainable than our own fishery?
The fishing industry has been emasculated by the government. They need to join Agforce and Canegrowers to call for better Quality Assurance of science.
*For the 600 km Central zone which is roughly from Ingham to Shoalwater Bay
Technical Note: The change in the abundance of prawns (often called the biomass) is calculated by looking at the fishing “effort”, how many trawlers, how big they are, how many days they work, how much they trawl, and how much they catch. This is now very accurately recorded. But how well do you think this was recorded in the rough and ready days of the 1940s when the words environmental sustainability had not been invented.
References: Report can be downloaded at
era.daf.qld.gov.au/id/eprint/8049/1/Tiger%20prawn%20stock%20assessment%20report%202020.pdf
for other details see “Reef Heresy” published by Connor Court.
Thank goodness for Dr Peter Ridd! The fishing industry needs to fight the battle as well, so they should probably take Dr Ridd’s advice and join Agforce and Cane growers. A united offence is much better than a splintered defence.
If COVID-19 has shown us anything it’s that we are led by a lying bunch of self help excuses for human beings !
I don't think it's dodgy, just find a scientist who will agree with you version of narrative then laud them to the sky and go with that version....... then say ' it's science' that's how big business works............ me thinks
Do not be too concerned, they are only in government until the next state election.
What is it with Australian governments…..
Scientists will say whatever the Government wants to guarantee future funding. This is another way for the government to control all people and all businesses.
Are those the same people who don't want Sharks Culled ???
They will need to as no one will want to come here how our Government treats people lately. So won’t need the extra shrimps on the barbecue
The name of the Department says it all. DAFt
Why the F**K would they want to import seafood. They really are F**ked in the head.
Got to leave plenty for the Chinese...
Again?
They don’t let Australians fish in our waters, they just let the Indonesians come and take the fish.
We are probably buying our own prawns 🦐 back from poachers !!
I have long suspected that this government is beholden to dodgy "environmentalists".
Marianna Hendricks read and learn
a lot of them dodgy scientist getting around now days then to make matters worse you have all the know alls jumping on the band wagon drowning out the truth because it just don't suit there agendas
Vote Labor, get the Greens ideas.
Keep plugging away Pete; the integrity of this shambles leaves a lot to be desired. Quite shameful and embarrassing
Good old QLD Labor, destroying rural QLD day-by-day.
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