Brookfield murder
Thursday, 03 May 2012 14:43
It is with the greatest sadness that I join with local residents to express our sympathy, great distress and support to the Baden-Clay and Dickie families.
It is hard to imagine the distress and pain that the unfolding events around Allison’s murder would have inflicted on her family.
The close-knit and very caring Brookfield community is devastated by this tragic and almost incomprehensible event.
I thank police and SES workers for their tireless efforts to find Allison so quickly after her disappearance. To Allison’s family, the Dickies, and to the Baden-Clay family, I extend sympathy and our hope that the murderer is brought to swift justice.
It should also go without saying that in an area of Brisbane regarded as extremely safe, residents may need to consider their personal safety to a greater extent than they have previously.
Thank you to the residents of Moggill
Monday, 02 April 2012 16:22
I wish to extend my sincere thanks to the electors of Moggill for returning me as their representative for a fourth time with an increased majority. For the first time the result has been determined on the primary votes!
It has been and continues to be an honour to represent local residents and I will continue to do so to the best of my ability in the newly elected LNP Government.
As the Member for Moggill and in my role as a Minister I am acutely aware of the trust and expectation placed in an LNP Government by so many Queenslanders to "get Queensland back on track". Rest assured I will work tirelessly to do my part.
Thank you to all those people who gave generously of their time and assisted throughout our campaign and on polling day.
Moggill Campaign Launch
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:50
I was delighted, in company with Councillor Margaret de Wit, to have launched my campaign for the 2012 State Election last Saturday at our local Moggill Markets.
In the turmoil of one of the most negative campaigns by the Labor Government in recent times, I think it was very important to focus on the representation and the issues of our local area.
Ridiculous to consider CSG in Moggill and Pullenvale
Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:42
On behalf of local residents I strongly welcomed a statement from Arrow Energy that they do not intend to drill on their gas tenements that cover most of the state electorate of Moggill, including Pullenvale and Moggill.
These tenements were issued in 1998 by the incoming Goss government. It is hard to deny the financial importance of coal seam gas to Queensland in the future, but there needs to be a sensible and rational approach.
The LNP has previously and consistently maintained that urban areas and high value agricultural land should not be explored with a view to the production of coal seam gas.
So the decision not to use these tenements and to allow them to expire in 2018 when they are officially due to expire is consistent with the policy the LNP has put forward.
It is not an activity that is compatible with residential areas within the city of Brisbane.
Government Ignore Local School Needs as Secondary Education Heads towards Crisis
Friday, 09 March 2012 16:22
With Kenmore State High School strictly enrolment managed and excluding many local children and still running at almost full capacity, the state government has refused to fund an upgrade to the school that is desperately needed for the huge increase in enrolments when local Year 7s are moved from the many local feeder primary schools to Kenmore State High School at the beginning of 2015.
Responding to my urgent appeals on behalf of the school community and local families to clarify the future of Kenmore State High School, the Director-General of the Education Department replied that stages 3 and 4 of the expansion of Kenmore State High School “have not yet been funded”.
This is despite in the same letter clarifying that the school currently has 1671 high school students but is expected to have 1950 at the beginning of 2015..
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