Nov 11, 2022 | Media Releases
It is important that everyone, locals, businesses owners, and community leaders have a look at the plan and provide input. This plan will be looking at the needs of this region for the next 25 years. From my local government days, and as a former Deputy Mayor of this...Nov 2, 2022 | Media Releases
I’m well aware that our police stations and frontline officers are under stress. This is happening right across the region. The best prevention to crime is a visible presence of police officers. There is no substitute. Many communities do not have sufficient police...Oct 4, 2022 | Media Releases
The Health Minister is a master of political spin and diversion. She is more interested in being evasive and arguing about terminology and cherry-picking time frames. The Minister has never been forthcoming about what is going on at Gympie Hospital. The latest...Sep 23, 2022 | Media Releases
After three years of being kept in the dark, the draft Great Sandy Marine Park zoning plan has finally been released. “Since 2019 commercial fishers, local anglers, tourism operators, and small businesses were left in limbo and unable to plan,” Member for Gympie, Tony...Sep 20, 2022 | Media Releases
Almost one Gympie state school student is forced every week to be absent from school for disciplinary reasons.* Over the three years from 2019 to 2021 there were 1,955 school disciplinary absences. It could have been worse. What is even more concerning is that the...Aug 19, 2022 | Media Releases
There are too many issues without a clear answer. The only conclusion is that it is a cover-up. I firmly believe the truth is not being told about this matter. If everything had been in order, why couldn’t an immediate response be provided that an “as constructed’...