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18.01.2022 As a teacher and a mum, I know how important our local community is. We need to make sure that we have a representative that has health, jobs and education as t...heir main priorities, and that is why I am proud to be part of the Palaszczuk team. We cannot risk going back to the cut, sack and sell agenda we saw under Campbell Newman when we are already on the road to recovery.

14.01.2022 We're going to fight to bring it back, sign the petition: https://www.epetitions.brisbane.qld.gov.au/petiti//pid/883

14.01.2022 As we unite as a community and recover from COVID-19 it is time to continue to support our local businesses. It was great to catch up with Brett from Uncle Bob...s Bakery at Belmont Village this morning and hear about the importance of local businesses supporting apprentices and training. (Also they have some pretty awesome cakes.) Only Labor has a plan to unite and recover Queensland, delivering more local jobs and supporting our local businesses. #qldjobs #uniteandrecover

01.01.2022 Kicking off question time this week was Cr Peter Cumming - for Wynnum Manly Ward asking Deputy Mayor Krista Adams about a controversial development application ...in Tingalpa, with plans to rip up the Brisbane Polo Grounds and replace them with a massive transport depot. The LNP councillor for that ward, Lisa Atwood, publicly opposed the development from the start to save face with the community and blamed the approval on the court. However, we’ve since learnt that it was not the court’s decision at all. The Planning and Environment Court approved the development because the parties, including Brisbane City Council, agreed that it should proceed. Cr Cumming asked why LNP Councillors are blatantly lying to their local residents? Councillor Jared Cassidy then asked the Deputy Mayor about A similar situation occurred just down the road in Norman park where two character homes were demolished illegally. A DA for town houses was then lodged for the site that council initially rejected. It went to the Planning and Environment court and now years later we find ourselves with the DA approved. While the LNP planning chair said that council flatly refused the approval, we’ve since learnt that the P&E Court approved the development in agreeance with BCC. Now we’re seeing the current LNP planning chair do the same at a development on Richmond Road in Morningside. In July Cr Adams was quoted saying The application in its current form is not supported. Fast forward to this week and the DA has been approved. Following question time, Cr Cassidy moved a motion, calling on the LNP Council to buy the land at 415-427 Beckett Road Bridgman Downs using the bushland levy. A development at this land is currently before the P&E court and we fear it will suffer the same fate as the previous examples. This land is critical koala habitat that a developer wants to build shops and a fuel station on. The LNP voted this motion down. How can residents trust the LNP to save this bushland if they are not willing to buy it? In the committee reports, more concerns were raised about ongoing day-to-day work being awarded to private contractors, rather than inhouse Council staff. We shouldn’t be contracting out work like the sanitisation of buses. In house jobs are solid, reliable and give employees more security. Recently we saw a submission come to council with the purpose of engaging smaller, local firms to help with some of council’s legal work. The idea being to support the smaller firms. Yet on another contract in this report, we see $1.8 million being paid to some the biggest firms in Australia. What happened to supporting small and local business? There was also a report on the proposed bonsai house, which will cost ratepayers $2.6 million. Cr Cassidy spoke to highlight that while the LNP spends your money on things like bonsai trees, Brisbane residents are still crying out for basic services like Kerbside Collection. Our Labor for Brisbane team will continue to keep up the fight in City Hall.