Colin Boyce MP | Politician
Colin Boyce MP
Phone: +61 7 4845 1100
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19.01.2022 My favourite place for a day off, bushwalking, visiting and exploring local art galleries. Isn’t it interesting that modern day cultural experts don’t know the difference between a hand print and a stencil. It’s an added bonus that there is no phone reception.
16.01.2022 Celebrating National Ag Day - a friendly reminder to thank a farmer for the food and fibre we can’t live without. Every family needs a farmer! #NationalAgDay #thankafarmer #everyfamilyneedsafarmer #australianagriculture #AgDayAU #qldpol
16.01.2022 Thank you Callide constituents for putting your trust in me.
16.01.2022 Polling Booths close 6pm today!
16.01.2022 Happy International Men’s Day to all you good blokes out there! Especially to the men in maroon last night and all the men who inspired, influenced and coached you along the way - proud to be a Queensland man today!#TalkingAboutMen #areyouboggedmate #queenslander #stateoforigin2020
15.01.2022 BLUE GUM - Miles, Gayndah, Mundubbera & Chinchilla dates for the Mobile Service Centre in your areas.
14.01.2022 The other side of the renewable energy story. A great video that should be shown in our schools and universities. https://youtu.be/RqppRC37OgI
10.01.2022 I am honoured to be sworn in as the Member for Callide at the opening of Queensland’s 57th Parliament today. I’ll be doing my best to be a voice for rural Queensland and every Callide constituent for the next 4 years. Thank you for putting your trust in me. #57thparliament #qldpol #callide
09.01.2022 The hottest day on record? Not 2010, BUT 1828 at a blistering 53.9 C Back before man-made climate change was frying Australia, when CO2 was around 300ppm, the ...continent savoured an ideal pre-industrial climate.. RIGHT? This is the kind of climate we are spending $10bn per annum to get back to.. Right again? We are told today’s climate has more records and more extremes than times gone by, but the few records we have from the early 1800’s are eye-popping. Things were not just hotter, but so wildly hot it burst thermometers. The earliest temperature records we have show that Australia was a land of shocking heatwaves and droughts, except for when it was bitterly cold or raging in flood. In other words, nothing has changed, except possibly things might not be quite so hot now! Silliggy (Lance Pidgeon) has been researching records from early explorers and from newspapers. What he’s uncovered is fascinating! It’s as if history is being erased! For all that we hear about recent record-breaking climate extremes, records that are equally extreme, and sometimes even more so, are ignored. In January 1896 a savage blast like a furnace stretched across Australia from east to west and lasted for weeks. The death toll reached 437 people in the eastern states. Newspaper reports showed that in Bourke the heat approached 120F (48.9C) on three days. Links to documentary evidence (1)(2)(3) The maximum at or above 102 degrees F (38.9C) for 24 days straight! Use the several links below to read the news reports at the time for yourself 1. By Tuesday Jan 14, people were reported falling deadin the streets. 2. Unable to sleep, people in Brewarrina walked the streets at night for hours, thermometers recorded109F at midnight. 3. Overnight, the temperature did not fall below 103F. 4. On Jan 18 in Wilcannia, five deaths were recorded in one day, the hospitals were overcrowdedand reports said that more deaths are hourly expected. 5. By January 24, in Bourke, many businesses had shut down (almost everything bar the hotels). 6. Panic stricken Australians were fleeing to the hills in climate refugee trains. As reported at the time, the government felt the situation was so serious that to save lives and ease the suffering of its citizens they added cheaper train services: What I found most interesting about this was the skill, dedication and length of meteorological data taken in the 1800s. When our climate is the most important moral challenge why is it there is so little interest in our longest and oldest data? Who knew that one of the most meticulous and detailed temperature records in the world from the 1800s comes from Adelaide, largely thanks to Sir Charles Todd. The West Terrace site in Adelaide was one of the best in the world at the time, and provides accurate historic temperatures from Australia’s first permanent weather bureau at Adelaide in 1856. Rainfall records even appear to go as far back as 1839. Lance Pidgeon went delving into the National Archives and was surprised at what he found. The media are in overdrive, making out that the extreme heat is the new normal in Australia. The Great Australian Heatwave of January 2013 didn’t push the mercury above 50C at any weather station in Australia, yet it’s been 50C (122F) and hotter in many inland towns across Australia over the past century. See how many are in the late 1800s and early to mid 1900s. You can’t blame those high records on man-made global warming!
06.01.2022 Thanks to all the hardworking volunteers who turned out today for rural Queensland Polling Booths shut at 6pm today
05.01.2022 POSTAL VOTE ISSUES - Did you receive yours in time for the Election? Has it arrived at all? I will be writing to the Electoral Commission of Queensland as this seems to be a common problem. Many Callide voters have been affected. There was simply not enough time allowed for rural and regional voters to receive their votes, with many postal services needing at least 10 days for mail to come from Brisbane.... Please let my office know if you have been affected, in order to compile an accurate list. An email to [email protected] or by messenger with your name and address would be appreciated. If you hear of others who are not on the internet, please ask them to give my office a call on 1800 812 119 or 4845 1100 so that they can be added.
05.01.2022 The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month we will remember them. Take time to give thanks today, and always, for those who gave their tomorrows so we could live our today’s. Lest we forget.
03.01.2022 FOOD DOES NOT COME FROM SHOPS. Everyone has to eat. Food can’t be sold in the shops unless someone grows and harvests the food. I can’t believe our unemployment benefits system has allowed Australians to sit at home while the farmers are desperate for fruit and vegetable pickers.
01.01.2022 QUEENSLAND'S LOCAL HERO AWARD 2021 - Congratulations to Natasha Johnston of Chinchilla, founder and director of Drought Angels. Drought Angels supports farmers in the enduring drought conditions, helping to keep them on their land by delivering care packages and financial support to thousands across Queensland and New South Wales. I wish Natasha the best of luck at the national Australian of the Year Awards, on the eve of Australia Day 2021.
