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25.01.2022 This is just not acceptable that for-profit land is cleared that the population clearly wants to save. The government is so out of step with the community expectations. It boils down all to favors for mates. Probably arising out of these paid-for meetings with our politicians and the donations that are given to the major parties. These deals are destroying our habitat, costing us our health and costing our children their future. This government does not plan for our futu...re, does not care about our wellbeing, and certainly does not work for us anymore. According to the CCC's report, it has become apparent that a major risk of corruption is the long working relationship of government officials and executive employees and the relationship formed over years with developers. On the international level, it appears that for example mayors who serve for too long acquire disproportionate power, opening the door to abuse of privilege and to problematic behavior with a clear connection between long periods in power and corruption. This kind of risk also flows to a higher level of government. Would the way forward then not be to break these relations by voting in new people that are not part of this system? We have done it in Ipswich at the council election. Why not do it at the state election. Clean up and start with a new slate. Do not vote in professional politicians that are coming through this corrupt system. Look at the mess we have in Ipswich, landfills and incinerators that are destroying our health, polluting the environment and our food. Koala habitat that is destroyed because there are exceptions to the rules that allow the destruction of 167 ha of land for development. The land is cleared without a mature tree left standing for development. None of our roads are properly maintained or upgraded to cope with the influx of people. The infrastructure is not there to support growth, no flood protection in place and many of the new developments built on flood-prone land. Let us not forget that most of the Ebenezer area is marked for coal seam gas development and then we have the inland rail that will destroy even more koala habitat as it is exempt development and will destroy the livelihood of many of our farmers, besides being built in flood plains, which will have detrimental effects on our environment. These are the most talked-about issues, but there are many more. Our country can not afford this kind of governing.

25.01.2022 Yet another bandage, that will not bring results. Maybe that woman should speak to some experts who actually know all the answers to her question. What incompetent people who refuse to work with experts, get all mapping wrong and do not listen to the results of research. Surely we have more competent people than that. God help the koalas, they have no chance with so much incompetence.

25.01.2022 Fantastic story about teaching children that every individual counts and everybody has the power to change something. They are actively saving koalas.

24.01.2022 Our history comes from creat civilizations that had great philosophers that debated the ethics and morals of a society. They did not stop because it offended somebody, they realized that to come to a conclusion you need to have freedom of speech to explore all opinions and ideas from all sides. Our history comes from creat civilisations that had great philosophers that debated the ethics and morals of a society. They did not stop because it offended somebody, they realized ...that to come to a conclusion you need to have freedom of speech to explore all opinions and ideas. Cutting our freedom of speech prevents these great debates that lead to good decisions. We can now see what happens when you censor speech as we have done. You get ideas coming through without debate that are just outright bad. You get corruption flourishing because nobody is allowed to talk against it, as they are shut down. https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/1007104809754299

24.01.2022 Your voice is important to fight this incinerator. The application for the incinerator is currently with the Coordinator General. What will happen first is that there will be a term of reference established. Once that is done we might be asked to comment on that. This is very important as we need to have reference to the health and the environment and any other points we want to object to. Once this is done an environmental impact assessment will be written. This draft ...is where we also can comment on and object to. Once the environmental impact assessement is written the Coordinator General will allow or reject the submission. If she allows it then it goes to the council, but even if the council rejects the application it will then go to court and the assessment of the coordinator general will heavily weigh on the judgement. So preferable we want it rejected by the coordinator general. Once the environmental impact assessment is written the Coordinator General will allow or reject the submission. If she allows it then it goes to the council, but even if the council rejects the application it will then go to court and the assessment of the coordinator general will heavily weigh on the judgment. So preferable we want it rejected by the coordinator general.

24.01.2022 No idea what is going on.

23.01.2022 I attended a meeting about Inland rail and like to share my thoughts on the process of the community consultation that is occurring there. The first thing always noticeable are the people that are hired to do this consultation. Most of them look like they came straight out of the education system without any work experience. The whole inland rail is split up into 13 projects with some already in construction, some in need of an upgrade and some not built yet. Splitting a...Continue reading

23.01.2022 Let us not forget what happened this turn. That it took brave people to expose this corruption, people that were attacked by the people that govern us to be silenced, done under the sanctuary of the state government. A government that knew all about it according to former state MP Rachel Nolan but did everything in their power not to do anything.

23.01.2022 The ALP announces that: Queenslands regions have told us they see energy as a key part of diversifying their economies and attracting new industry. Energy means jobs. We commit $145 million for the creation of three Queensland Renewable Energy Zones located in southern, central and northern Queensland. With the right support from governments, these zones will help connect new renewable energy to our power network and attract industries wanting new energy to a series of ...connected commercial and industrial power hubs across the state. Our gas industry is a vital part of our States energy and resources future, thats why were committing $5 million for a concept study into the Bowen Basin pipeline to build productive infrastructure connecting high-quality gas reserves to the east coast and export gas market. This means that the land currently under a mining permit for coal seam gas is under threat to be mined if the ALP is in charge. In Ipswich, Arrow CSG has a huge area under a permit and they call this area the Ipswich basin. Arrow CSG is also talking about CSG pipelines to Swanbank. A gas pipeline from Roma to Swanbank going nicely through Grandchester. We are already getting the coal seam gas wastewater from Arrow CSG which is deposited at Newgrow where it is mixed into the compost. There have been lots of serious concerns about the concept of mixing coal seam gas wastewater into compost when the apparent safety of this was tested at a farm in Kogan. The interesting thing was that the testing of this safety never tested for the potentially carcinogenic chemicals that are found in coal seam gas wastewater. The concept that heavy metals and organic chemicals do somehow disappear by diluting with compost and will vanish in the composting process is a very strange hypothesis.

23.01.2022 Their development application to accept more waste was turned down by the Ipswich City Council. An appeal against this decision was knocked back by the Planning and Environment Court in February 2018. So what do they do, they just do it anyway. This overfilling made them a profit of $7.4 million. They were fined $300,000 after pleading guilty to two environmental breaches that saw the company accept 326,137 extra tonnes of waste over its allowed limit.... "The company has been previously fined for eight offenses for wilfully contravening the condition of an environmental authority," Magistrate Shepherd said. The appropriate consequence in my book would have been to close them down. They do it with other businesses, yet they won't touch the billion-dollar industry. https://www.abc.net.au//ipswich-court-biorecycle-/12677680

23.01.2022 It sounds like they are doing the same thing they have been doing for years. Well, look back, that was not working in the first place. Can we for once do the right thing and declare them an endangered species and put real measurements in place. such as declaring land where they live protected without any exception and get rid of this off-set scheme. You can not off-set habitat. Planting trees somewhere else does not help them, shifting them kills them as was proven before. Stop planning inland rail and other infrastructure projects in their environment, stop developers to develop in their habitat. Really not rocket science. Stop telling us you do not know where the data is. If you can not figure out to asked experts and local groups and establish a map within a couple of months you should not be in this job.

22.01.2022 The important words in this story: While changes to the disaster managment are welcome and necessary, they’re not sufficient. Minimising such catastrophic impacts on wildlife and livestock also means reducing their exposure to these hazards in the first place. And unless we develop more proactive strategies to protect threatened species from disasters, they’ll only become more imperilled. When we had all the flooding all we heard was how to improve our disaster management. The focus should be on how do we prevent disaster. We need to plan into the future and make our land drought prove and flood prove. That can be done but it needs foresight and planning. Something our government at federal and state level is lacking.

22.01.2022 Even the state of the art incinerators still pollute the air. There are no safe incinerators. The problem is that they claim that they are safe and measurements are taken when conditions are ideal and waste going through is not as toxic. The problem is the start-up and the shutdown periods where the pollution peaks and these periods are not measured. Measurements are only taken twice a year instead of constant as it should be. These state of the art incinerators come fr...Continue reading

22.01.2022 Coronavirus modeling used by the Federal Government to send Australia into financially crippling lockdown used the wrong figures and dramatically over-estimated how many people could need intensive care. When the modeling was released at the start of the pandemic by the Melbourne-based Peter Doherty Institute, it horrified health officials. The modeling that Prof Murphy said was "highly technical" and could only be understood by people with "scientific brains" was wrong. t...aken for the number of people who would be admitted into intensive care units. https://www.qt.com.au//revealed-australia-wrongl/4096321/

22.01.2022 The mayor will be at this meeting tonight. She supports the inland rail. If you are against it is time to come and ask the vital questions

21.01.2022 Retired Bundamba MP and Labor Party stalwart Jo-Ann Miller says her family's guinea pigs were strangled and gas bottles set on fire after she raised complaints against disgraced former Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale. Ms Miller, who quit her seat in February, has also claimed the party "turned a blind eye" to the man known as "Mr Ipswich", whose new guilty pleas relating to a sexual assault case and his years in office were made public on Thursday. https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au//my-daughter-s-guinea-pig

21.01.2022 In Ipswich we do not really care about health. It is well known that volatile compounds released from service stations are not good for our health and especially not good for children. In New York setback regulations are that petrol stations should be 91 meters away from schools, playgrounds, and parks. However, a study led by environmental health scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health examining the release of vapors from gas station vent pipes, ...found emissions were 10 times higher than estimates used in setback regulations used to determine how close schools, playgrounds, and parks can be situated to the petrol stations. The Ipswich council has apparently never heard of such guidelines and about setback regulations, as they allowed not only one but two petrol stations near the North Ipswich school. The latest petrol station is right next to the school. What is wrong with this town that our health and the health of our children does not seem to matter? https://www.scientificamerican.com//is-it-safe-to-live-ne/

21.01.2022 Due to the application to fight the dismissal being made without reasonable cause the sacked Councillors Wayne Wendt, Cheryl Bromage, David Pahlke, David Morrison, Charlie Pisasale and current councillors Paul Tully and Sheila Ireland are ordered to pay Costs. It was argued that it should have been apparent to the councillors that their applications for reinstatement had no reasonable prospects of success. The cost of the proceedings up to the judgement is $63,700. That would be $9,100 each.

20.01.2022 Ipswich has massive landfills at New Chum and at Swanbank. There are currently two more applications for massive landfills from Cleanaway and Austin BMI in this area, which have been rejected and Cleanaway and Austin BMI are now in the Land court appealing the decision of the council. Just to give an idea of the size of these landfills: Austin BMI wants to drain the Blue Lake (also known as Aqua lake) and dump waste into the 15 million cubic metres void. Cleanaway wants to... extend their landfill to 85 m above ground level. Another two applications for massive landfills are in the Ebenezer area. One application by Lantrak has been already rejected and Lantrak is also in court appealing the decision by the council. The other application from Wanless, which claims to also be recycling is still with the council and has had no-decision yet. When I spoke to the owner of Wanless he admitted that he can only send paper and steel to be recycled. They do not recycle this in Ipswich, they are just going to sort. So stuff from all over Australia comes here to be sorted and then send off to where ever it can be recycled. However, he predicted that it will take several years before they can recycle something else. In the meantime they sort, but as they are not allowed to store several years it will end up in their huge landfill. You might wonder why we have applications for such massive landfills which will be filled by interstate and whole of Queensland waste and as we currently found out by Papua New Guinea waste (Cleanaway is listed on the permit by the government to receive the waste from overseas). After all, we have a waste levy that was supposed to stop this. It has not, as the Waste Reduction and Recycling (Waste Levy) Amendment Act 2019 is full of loopholes. If you recycle (Wanless; Cleanaway just put in a resource recovery center so they can be classed as recycling) if you rehabilitate (filling a mining void with waste is called rehabilitation) and if you need the waste for your business (incinerator by Remondis) then you do not have to pay the levy. Do you think it is okay that we are the landfill of the nation and that our health is put at risk? I certainly do not think so and I have sent in submission during the council rejection process and I am now in court as a co-respondent in the Cleanaway and Lantrak case doing my best to help to make sure that these landfills do not get approved.

20.01.2022 A government that thinks that they do not need expert advice. How wrong have things gone?

19.01.2022 AV Jennings are moving onto the Deebing mission site next week. So why on earth do we pay respect to the aboriginal at every meeting when these are just empty words and we do not mean them at all. What hypocrates are we, speaking with a forked tongue. We know there are mass graves, we know that this place was of significance to the Aboriginal people, we know that it was taken from them in corrupt deals yet we do not make things right again, we just proceed with something tha...t stemmed out of corruption. Mind you what else can you expect, the truth, justice and rightfulness all do not count any more. Happens when you have a corrupt government that looks after their own and the developers and big corporations. The rest of us are just casualties of corruption. https://www.fassifernguardian.com//calls-to-make-suspected

19.01.2022 The climate arguments were further developed in the second debate, with Sharon Hodgson (Labour MP for Washington and Sunderland West) pointing out how: Surely a technology that is expected to release millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide during the anticipated lifetime of the gasification facility should not be backed by the Government. Indeed, that is a direct contradiction of the Government’s policies on climate change and waste processing. For every one tonne of plastic ...incinerated, approximately two tonnes of CO2 are released into the atmosphere, therefore contributing to climate change, whereas, perversely, one tonne of plastic in landfill releases zero CO2, so incineration cannot be and is not the solution we seekit has to be more recycling. The MP went on to argue that: A recent studyfound that 75% of commercial and industrial waste sent to incineration or landfill in Wales is recyclable. With recycling rates flat-lining, will the Government consider introducing a tax on incineration, as promised in 2018, to address climate harm and encourage recycling rates? Surely it is counter-productive to have a landfill tax to deter burying plastic, which causes no CO2, but not to have an incineration tax for incinerating plastic, which causes masses of CO2. This was echoed by Wera Hobhouse (Liberal Democrat MP for Bath) who said: We now know that we have to get to net-zero by 2050we need to put all our efforts into net-zero solutions. I believe that incentives and disincentives are the way forward. I also support the idea of an incineration tax. The landfill tax has made a massive difference in diverting waste from landfill; an incineration tax would ensure that we do not just divert all our waste to incinerators. https://zerowasteeurope.eu//02/waste-incineration-debate/

19.01.2022 The head of Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission has revealed it vetted the team of investigators who worked in secret on the case against former Ipswic...h mayor Paul Pisasale because of his close connections with police. "We hand-picked our team because of how popular he was. He has tentacles including in the police service," CCC chairman Alan MacSporran told a meeting of the Queensland Local Government Reform Association this month.

19.01.2022 It is really not rocket science, you destroy the habitat they pay the price. Mind you in the end we pay the price, as they are not the only ones that need this habitat.

19.01.2022 Your input into this draft EIS is due by early March. They gave us 3 months to go through this many volumes of this draft. The council will not be on your site as they think it is a good idea and they do not care that it will affect people negatively and ruins lives, will kill wildlife and will bring waste to Ipswich. Never mind that it will go through flood plains, that it will go through indigenous heritage places and that we are talking about diesel engines that will po...llute our environment. It will not bring the jobs the council thinks it brings, as the building of the line will be done by crews from interstate. they already admitted that it will cost too much to train people. If the councilors actually would have asked some intelligent questions at the meeting at the railway museum instead of listening to the propaganda video that could have been created by Pisasale, it was full of BS and painted a rosy picture. From time to time you need to take off your rose coloured glasses and actually find out the truth.

19.01.2022 The general concensus now is that no level of pollution is safe.

18.01.2022 Evidence is mounting that Sweden has beaten the coronavirus with herd immunity rather than a lockdown, according to a renowned expert on the spread of disease. Swedens infection rate has remained low and stable at a time when other European countries are facing a strong resurgence. They had 89,756 cases and 5,876 death.... https://www.theaustralian.com.au//5153e2e8af73e67e0633afa3

18.01.2022 That really brings it home. Way to close for comfort.

18.01.2022 And here it starts again since nothing has changed since 2011 The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a warning to Queensland about the likelihood of a La Nina weather pattern forming this year. This weather pattern typically heralds increased rainfall and increased likelihood of cyclone events. The last significant La Nina event was in 2010-11, which was Australia's wettest two-year period on record beating the previous record from the La Nina years of 1973-74. ... The stress this will cause people that have been through this before and we know that the same thing will happen again since nothing was done. No flood protection at all. Not looking forward to have to see the workshop flooded again and sitting at home watching the floodwater come up to street level having car ready to leave. Seeing that we will see more extreme weathers, the next flood might be even higher.

18.01.2022 Occupational and environmental physician David Allen said he did not understand why the Government had not already engaged occupational hygienists like Ms Col...e. "There's an ongoing concern amongst a lot of health professionals that the Government isn't acting on the possibility of aerosol transmission of COVID-19," Dr Allen said. "The particles are small enough to stay suspended in air. They can be transmitted at significant distances that means room to room. "Other agencies internationally, like the CDC [Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in the US] and the ECDC [European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control], have acknowledged that aerosol transmission is a thing, so I don't understand why our Government hasn't acted upon it, but it's definitely a risk." https://www.abc.net.au//coronavirus-covid-hotel-/13054652

17.01.2022 Queensland icons including both Suncorp Stadium and the Gabba are mapped as 'high-risk areas' where endangered, vulnerable or near threatened plants are present or are likely to be present. Also covered are canals on the Sunshine Coast, the Dalby, Charleville and Blackwater airports as well as mines and coal stockpiles in Central Queensland . https://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au//vegetation-man/

16.01.2022 A strict deadline imposed by Queensland giving NSW contact tracers just 48 hours to find the source of a locally acquired COVID case or risk the border clock restarting was not accepted by the national team of health experts leading the nation's pandemic response. That's despite Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's claims on Thursday that the 48-hour deadline was "agreed to by the AHPPC (Australian Health Protection Principal Committee)". Premier Palaszczuk on Friday cl...aimed her strict border rules were based on a "criteria that was agreed on by (the) AHPPC". A federal health department spokesperson confirmed that the "AHPPC has not made any recommendations around domestic border closures". "There is no national agreement around timeframes to identify source of infection," the spokesperson said. Who is keeping us safe from her? The person that has managed to rule on fear, so that we do not look at her disastrous management of the economy, her mismanagement of a pandemic, her aim to frack the whole state and her intention to built incinerators in Queensland. Who is keeping us safe from her. The person that has managed to rule on fear, so that we do not look at her disastrous management of the economy, her mismanagement of a pandemic, her aim to frack the whole state and her intention to built incinerators in Queensland. A closer look at the waste levy tells us that fly ash from incinerators is exempt from the waste levy. Provisions have even been made in the law to built incinerators. Add to this that we are building an inland rail to bring waste to Ipswich Queensland and let us not forget that we will also coal seam gas mine in Ipswich, just to add to the landfills, the incinerator, the destruction of koala habitat as there are exemptions in her laws for the koalas and let us not forget that she was talking about Ipswich being a place for a nuclear power station. Thank you so much for really caring about us. Can somebody please protect us from this premier. https://www.qt.com.au//palaszczuks-48-hour-rule-w/4115993/

15.01.2022 Very good explanation and questions. Very big concern that the vaccine needs to be at such low temperatures.

14.01.2022 I have written to council suggesting that they should help people in the process of writing submission of objections to the inland rail. Seeing that the terms of references are 40 pages long and the EIS is good knows of how many pages, which nobody will really read. The council has taken my suggestion to help the community in regards to writing the submission of objections and has put all information onto the council website: https://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au//initi/inland-ra...il-project There will also be community information sessions to assist in navigating the draft EIS https://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au//inland-rail-project-commun Please share so that people that have objections can get assistance for writing their objections

13.01.2022 Do we really need all the landfills for the waste from interstate and overseas in our city?

13.01.2022 Earlier this month people were at the Gabba all together for the AFL match between the Collingwood Magpies and the Gold Coast Suns. No social distancing whatsoever and no mask. Now she wants to do it again but this time with masks. This is turning out to be a total comedy. Science has gone out of the window. She is endangering the lives of people according to her own rules. All of this to be popular and to have the final here. This is a vote-winning exercise for which s...he breaks all her own rules. Then people will be asked how they felt about their safety. What has that got to do with science how people that have no clue about viruses feel about safety. That does not make it safe, that is why we have a scientific adviser. Apparently, we do not need a scientific advisor, as any person now can make a judgment about the safety of virus transmission. What a joke. For this circus, our economy is in ruins. https://www.couriermail.com.au//7312e9f7a3052687130e303d41

13.01.2022 To the people of Queensland. It is in your power to change the government. Why are we having this new health direction? Because an election is coming up and somebody is very scared to lose this election due to her incompetence. She is trying to make things right. A bit late. What that shows though is that the power is in your hands. Your vote will make a difference. So vote wisely, think of our health, think of our environment and think of the future for our children. ... Look at the track record and think about how you fared throughout the years. Who is paying for the debt incurred and to get us out of this mess? It is you, the majority, not the big business or the current politicians that will never be affected due to their pensions and their lurks and perks for life. It is your taxes that pay for everything, while big business does not pay a single bit of tax. Do not listen to what they now promise you in the months before the election, look at what they have done before the election. Why are we having super dumps in our suburbs, why are we having a smell that is so putrid that you need to lock yourself in your houses? Why is there an incinerator planned for Ipswich and the application pushed through the coordinator general to push it through? Why is coal seam gas planned with boreholes already drilled and permits in place for the Ebenezer area? Why is koala habitat destroyed despite new laws that apparently protect the koalas, which conveniently have loopholes to make exemptions? Why is our air quality not measured when the lung cancer rate of people around the dump is 48% higher than the Australian average? Why did we have corruption in Ipswich for decades and every party knew about it, yet nothing was done? Why are we not listen to experts any more but on the contrary silence them or just totally ignore them and since when did politicians become so arrogant to think they know better than experts? Why will this be another Christmas where we need to worry to get flooded as nothing has been done to make us flood-proof? Why has nothing happened to make us drought-proof, it is not like we never had droughts? Why are we still just ripping out our resources and send them overseas as we have no manufacturing left in this country? Why do our good inventions still go overseas as we do not invest in our own people? This has not happened just overnight, this has happened when our current major parties and the parties that made deals for preferences were in place. That happened under their watch for decades. I have been here for 39 years and have seen this country go from a lucky country to a country that is now in recession. A country that had everything going for it and should have been able to stay prosperous. The future is in your hands Queensland, vote for a future and not for the destruction of our state.

13.01.2022 When gas is extracted, transported, or burned it releases greenhouse gas emissions; the climate impact from fugitive gas emissions has been under-reported in Australia. Australias existing pipeline of 22 gas projects, along with identified and prospective gas resources, could emit up to three times the annual world emissions. https://www.tai.org.au//weapons-gas-destruction-lifting-li

13.01.2022 A leading figure at the trouble-plagued Ipswich City Council has quit just five months into her role, with the council keeping the resignation quiet for one week. A leading figure at the trouble-plagued Ipswich City Council has quit just five months into her role, with the council keeping the resignation quiet for one week. https://www.couriermail.com.au//9c26d331e93930722225a21b55

13.01.2022 The very interesting thing here is that this woman calls this an epidemic, not a pandemic. An epidemic is when an infectious disease spreads quickly to more people than experts would expect. It usually affects a larger area than an outbreak. A pandemic is a disease outbreak that spreads across countries or continents. It affects more people and takes more lives than an epidemic.... Pathologist argued that a pandemic means that the pathogen is causing death. Several pathologists that spoke out said that people have not died from the disease but have died from underlying diseases. In other words, they were already sick and the second disease made their primary disease so bad that they died.

12.01.2022 Please sign and share the Federal Petition to protect our koalas. https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list?id=EN1862

12.01.2022 Former Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and one count each of official corruption, unlawful possession of a restricted drug and disobedience to statute law in the District Court in Ipswich. It can now be revealed that last month Pisasale pleaded guilty to 27 counts of fraud and one count each of receipt of secret commission by an agent, fraud of property and perjury. https://www.abc.net.au//paul-pisasale-court-sexua/12668730

10.01.2022 The Queensland ALP backed Pisasale and his council, almost all of whom were party members, unreservedly despite repeated complaints from local ALP branches about his corrupt activities. There was a blip when Pisasale helped then-LNP leader Campbell Newman in the 2012 election - but it was quickly forgiven. He was shopped around the state by Queenslands Local Government Association and feted at industry and government events in China and around the world. The LGAQ always had Paul Pisasale up and down the length and breadth of Queensland talking about how Ipswich worked and how other councils could do the same thing, said former veteran Ipswich ALP state MP Jo-Ann Miller who has an acrimonious relationship with Pisasale.

08.01.2022 An eucalyptus tree needs to be 100 years old before it is a habitat for animals. Old and dead trees are an essential part of all native forests and can be referred to as ‘nature’s community dwellings’ as they provide an important resource to wildlife 24 hours a day.

07.01.2022 Have your say in shaping Ipswich future https://shapeyouripswich.com.au/corporate-plan-2021-2026

06.01.2022 There will be a community session about the Inland Rail. I encourage people to come along. This project is full of environmental disasters, such as going through koala habitat. Building parts in flood plains. Splitting properties in half. Even if you are happy with where it is planned, they have the right to shift it as an amendment later on.... The question then is what are they actually shifting and it is most likely waste?

05.01.2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch

05.01.2022 One of Australia's largest beef processors has taken court action against the Australian Defence Force (ADF) after PFAS contamination of their site. Oakey Beef Exports filed the action in the Supreme Court of Queensland in July, claiming $47 million in costs, alleging toxic contaminants entered its alluvial bore water, which the company was licensed to use in its operations. https://www.abc.net.au//oakey-beef-exports-court/12643796

05.01.2022 Research is concluding that no level of air pollutions is safe. Many argue that current safety standards are way too high and should be lowered.

04.01.2022 When we talk about landfills and the incinerator, this is the area they are in or going to be in. I have to show it in three pictures as it is such a massive area. This is New Chum and Swanbank. This is what happens behind the hills out of sight. They are polluting our air, our groundwater and they want to continue to build up 85 meters high, so they can continue to bring in waste from interstate for decades to come. Then they want to add an incinerator on top of it, whose air pollution can be still measured 15 km away from the incinerator.

03.01.2022 Waste expert Professor Paul Connett who is Professor Emeritus in Environmental Chemistry at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. For the past 30 years, Paul has put his scientific knowledge to work by helping (without fee) communities around the world understand the science of controversial issues like incineration This is an interview on Philippine TV https://www.facebook.com/PTVBagongPilipinas/posts/2868790549859410

03.01.2022 Taxpayers funding the Labor election campaign under the guise of the unite and recover COVID-19 marketing campaign is one of the great political scandals of our lifetime, writes Peter Gleeson. But there is no legislative requirement for the government to stop its unite and recover propaganda blitzkrieg after it changed the law in December last year. In exceptional circumstances, a government can continue to advertise right up until election day. No doubt the governm...ent will deem a pandemic exceptional circumstances. Making laws to advance themselves - classic corruption https://www.couriermail.com.au//08bf82067853702b877bac27ae

03.01.2022 There are a couple of things that have happened which I only became aware of and I must say I am bitterly disappointed. This happens when you vote in people that have no clue what has expired. I am not making any accusations here, only stating facts. The council has a committee that consists of them and developers to decide which projects should be supported and will be shovel ready. The developments that are so-called shovel ready are all in Redbank/ Springfield area. T...Continue reading

02.01.2022 This is the person that is supposed to make decisions on the health aspect of the rules around COVID It turns out that decisions by her are now based on money, not on health. The other day she said that if you have any kind of symptoms it is COVID, not it might be, but it is. What kind of professional is that woman. If there is a rule that the borders should be closed due to health reasons then there should be no exemptions. The truth comes out that there are really no r...easons for the border closure as so many other health officials tell us. Can we please get some real experts to run the show, as this woman is a disgrace.

02.01.2022 This is the company that is currently appealing in court against the rejection by the council of their application for a super dump which is going to be 85 meters above ground level. The key adviser to the nations biggest industry superannuation funds, which collectively look after almost $500bn Australias retirement savings, has demanded a meeting with the board of Cleanaway Waste Management after revelations of alleged bullying by its high-profile chief executive dragged the company into scandal this week. https://www.theaustralian.com.au//8fca83cd362fe71ab425f7bc

01.01.2022 Council’s borrowings increased by $30 million to $344.2 million last financial year as the city moved ahead with its massive Nicholas Street redevelopment project. The council received $455.9 million in revenue, $202.4 million in rates and utility charges and spent $184.7 million in capital investment, including the Nicholas Street project. Grants and contributions revenue increased significantly by $75.8 million to $176.8 million with contributions of physical assets includi...ng the Springfield Sporting Complex of $30 million and a number of infrastructure assets donated in the Springfield area. https://www.fassifernguardian.com/ipswich-debt-rises-to-344

01.01.2022 Well said Wendy