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Labor’s Waste Tax Levy Stinks – We Shouldn’t Be Their Cash Cow
Queenslanders will be slugged more than $80 a year to use their wheelie bins under the State Government’s waste legislation. The tax will be added to household rates notices with Gympie Regional Council forced to act as debt collectors for the State Government. This...
Appropriation (Parliament) Bill
APPROPRIATION BILL Mr PERRETT (Gympie—LNP) (4.57 pm): I rise to speak on the 2021 budget. This budget is an exercise in accounting trickery, spin and grand announcements that are not backed up, with missing budget allocations or lines. In Gympie it is full of...
They’re Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel
The State Government is scraping the bottom of the barrel to find projects to fund in Gympie. I welcome the commitment of $500,000 to improve water supply at Mary Valley State College. The only other three projects are a recycled commitment for the Rainbow Beach...
State Takes the Gold Medal in Recycling Projects and Hitching Its Wagon to Federal and Council Projects
Recycling is a new art form in Gympie’s share of the State Budget as the State Government hitches a ride on federal and council projects. Member for Gympie Tony Perrett said that the State Budget had ignored Gympie and made an art form of recycling, rebadging, or...
Queensland Health Is the Problem With the Vaccine Rollout in Gympie
There is nothing wrong about the availability of vaccines, there is something seriously wrong about the delivery. The problem is with Queensland Health and the Queensland Government. We have already seen that Queensland has the second lowest vaccination rates in the...
Fraser Island Fire Reports Highlights Government Incompetence and Mismanagement
The Government has learnt nothing about fire and risk management. The report highlights that it was a fiasco of satirical proportions with bureaucrats unable to deal with it speedily and that it had done nothing to reduce fuel loads. It’s a damning indictment of the...