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After weeks spent in Parliament and travelling throughout Queensland with the Legal Affairs and Safety Committee, and then in self isolation due to the now passed lock down, I am more than looking forward to the long weekend to curb…

Welcome to 2021 everyone!! I trust that you all had a wonderful holiday break, with time spent among family and friends. Happily, I had longed for time with the ‘grandies’ in a lovely ‘staycation’, with a weekend sleepover in our…

Can you believe it!! The holiday season has arrived and how excited I am to be back home from 4 weeks of both the Red and Green Chambers. Surreal after everything that we have gone through this year? Yes. Now…

Evening everyone from Parliament! It has been a big week so far, as between Bills, Budget, deadlines for Questions on Notice to Committee, and trawling through Service Delivery Statements in preparation for Estimates next week? Normally we have a break…

August 2020 – Edition #29 Spring is upon us, and very welcomed after another month of COVID-19 changes. This included border reclosures, positive cases, contact tracing and limits of 30 for gatherings in homes and public places. Regardless of recent…

There is never a ‘normal’ month with COVID-19, and in amongst many fabulous re-openings, gatherings and celebrations, and a visit from the Premier, there were also many changes to borders and COVID-19 regulations. This has included increasing border closures to…

This month has seen fabulous progress on our ‘Recovery’ journey, including our accommodation houses once again taking bookings! It has been wonderful to visit our businesses and community groups, who may not have accessed information online nor are connected through…

With so much to report on this month, where to start? The Easter long weekend was well managed due to the incredible efforts of our frontliners along with the support of our community who were their ‘lookouts’. We have seen infection rates…

VOTING The ECQ has extended pre-polling (or early voting) hours from 9am–9pm on 18, 19, 25 & 26 Mar; Fri 20 & Sat 21 March is open from 9.00-5.00pm. Next week all early voting centres will be open from 9.00am…

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Welcome to Spring, Noosa! With Estimates just past and a letter to the Premier sent with suggestions for improving the process, it has been interesting to see this week, at a Federal level, similar efforts to address concerns and the…

NEW INITIATIVES Education •  $200,000 for Student Centre refurbishment – replacement of louvres, lights, industrial fan at Sunshine Beach State High School. •  $130,000 to upgrade to Prep Outdoor Learning Area at Pomona State School. •  $200,000 to upgrade outdoor…

Where to start? This has certainly been the month of problematic processes, insufficient consultations, and the dichotomy between ‘needs versus impacts’. On top, my interns from UQ are just about to flee the nest after 13 weeks, and I look…

It has been a big month, including the Skilling Queenslanders for Work trainees starting at the decommissioned TAFE site, spending time with Ministers on home turf during ‘Governing from the Regions’ and speaking at Zonta regarding the housing crisis impacting…