Media Releases
LNP Campaign for Parking Permit Reforms Delivers Win for Vision Impaired
Vision impaired Gympie residents will soon be able to have disability parking permits following campaigning from the LNP. Member for Gympie Tony Perrett said that the reforms were made after the LNP member for Bundaberg, David Batt, campaigned for the changes. * “He...
Labor’s Fire Ant Farce Gets Worse
More concerns have been uncovered with the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s botched fire ant eradication program. LNP Shadow Agriculture Minister Tony Perrett said it’s unbelievable that Labor have spent more than $100 million of taxpayers’ money on the program to...
Gdp Statistics Reflect the Economic Impact of Drought
These statistics are a glaring example of the financial impact of drought. When the region is in drought the fall in production is reflected in the figures. There is no doubt in my mind that drought was the foremost contributor to these statistics. It is there in...
Government Enforced Closure of Tyre Inflation Service Will Compound Issues
The enforced closure of a tyre inflation facility at Rainbow Beach will be a nightmare and create mayhem. It will compound issues of cars banking up and clogging roads. The government’s solution is that there are already other businesses providing tyre inflation...
Government Enforced Closure of Tyre Inflation Service Will Compound Issues
I raised this issue directly with the Minister asking him to help find a workable and satisfactory solution in the interest of common sense. The Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, Anthony Lynham, advised me last Thursday that the service Mr Elms is...
Morning Rituals Will Not Be the Same Without a Printed Gt
The loss of feeling and perusing over the Gympie Times as a printed newspaper will be immense. It has charmed its way into morning rituals when we can share pages, take clippings, read out snippets, and then pass the newspaper on to others. To sit in a coffee shop, to...