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CAPALABA Labor MP Don Brown has called on federal LNP MP Andrew Laming to release the figures on how much taxpayers are being billed for his spending on mail-outs and newspaper advertising in the lead up to the state election.
Labor MP Don Brown has called on federal LNP MP Andrew Laming to release the figures on how much taxpayers are being billed for his spending on mail-outs and newspaper advertising in the lead up to the state election.
Mr Laming said only two LNP mail-outs had been delivered in the Capalaba area.Mr Brown accused Mr Laming of spending large taxpayer sums to influence the state poll."Mr Laming is easily spending more than $100,000 in taxpayers money in advertising for this state election.
"We have seen it in past state and council elections, even the mayor had to intervene at the last election, but he is yet to stop," he said.
In March this year Redlands mayor Karen Williams wrote to Mr Laming asking him to keep out of the council election.
It came after she launched the Pledgenot2sledge campaign to try and maintain a level of respect and truth during the campaign.
Cr Williams had urged Mr Laming to turn his mind to federal government issues and allow the local election to be determined through a fair debate of ideas and vision.
Mr Brown said it was wrong for the Bowman MP to spend taxpayers' money to interfere in the election of another level of government.
"You can easily tell the taxpayer is picking up the tab for the LNP's campaign because you hardly see any mail or newspaper ads of their own, paid for by the LNP," Mr Brown said.
Mr Laming said Capalaba households had received Redlands Biggest Survey and a piece on Labor's removal of the Leslie Harrison Dam gates during the election period.
"Both mail-outs cost $2272 to print and deliver," he said.
He said correspondence was pre-authorised by Canberra public servants to ensure they were compliant.
Mr Laming also campaigned in the marginal Redlands seat where LNP candidate Henry Pike is up against Labor's Kim Richards.
Thanks to Redlands Coast Chamber of Commerce for giving me to opportunity to address your members at the Meet the Candidates Forum. I really enjoyed catching up with members before and after formalities.
Take one guess who brags about joining the RCCC on their website but couldn’t even be bothered to show up?
THE PANEL: Oodgeroo MP Mark Robinson, Oodgeroo candidate Claire Richardson, Redlands MP Kim Richards, Capalaba MP Don Brown, Redlands LNP candidate Henry Pike and Capalaba candidate Paul Branagan PIC AND FULL ARTICLE : REDLAND CITY NEWS
From 4pm today, you can grab a drink or meal at your favourite venue without having to be seated.
It’s one of the changes we’re making as part of Queensland’s new roadmap to easing restrictions.
Outdoor events with a COVID Safe Checklist can increase from 1,000 to 1,500 people from 1am December 1.
Dancing will return to weddings from November 1.
The roadmap is set for the NSW border to reopen.This includes events such as marathons, concerts, expos and festivals that are held outside, which will offer a major boost to Queensland’s economy and community morale.
Our strong health response means we can get on with Queensland’s economic recovery plan.
Your safety is still the most important thing – venues must operate with a COVID Safe Plan.
We’re able to take these careful steps because of our strong health response and the hard work of Queenslanders.
It’s great news for business and our continuing economic recovery, so make sure you get out and support your local this weekend.
Cheers, Queensland
Police will have new high-tech cameras, including an expanded fleet of drones to crackdown on hoons.
The new technology will add to the existing network of thousands of traffic cameras across the state.
The assault on hooning will make it much easier for police to catch hoons and to take strong action against them.
Police will have high-tech night vision capable cameras that can be deployed covertly, operated by an officer, or deployed on a drone.
Complementing the new camera technology the Government is looking to expand existing laws, including shifting the onus of proof onto the vehicle owner.
This means if the owner claims they weren’t driving the vehicle at the time of the offence, it will be up to them to prove it.
Putting the onus on the owner, would allow police to take greater advantage of the hooning footage captured by CCTV cameras.
These changes will provide police with enhanced flexibility when dealing with gatherings of hoons.
For example, if dozens of cars were hooning in a particular location, police would be able to use these new hi-tech cameras to capture images of all the vehicles.
The high-resolution images would allow police to identify each vehicle, and then proceed to take action against the registered owner, unless the owner could demonstrate they weren’t driving at the time.
The expanded laws would cover a wider range of traffic offences caught on camera.
An offender would no longer be able to avoid prosecution by simply masking their identities and denying they had been behind the wheel.
These changes are supported by the Queensland Police Service and the Queensland Police Union.
Drivers identified hooning in stolen vehicles would face theft and hooning charges.
These tough new tactics will complement the already harshest hoon penalties in the nation and will add to the arsenal of enforcement measures already being used by police to target hooning on Queensland’s roads:
Intelligence-driven enforcement with covert patrols
Monitoring of all forms of social media to take swift action
Hoon Hotline 13HOON
High-visibility patrols
Dedicated Road Policing officers
POLAIR aerial surveillance
Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology
Road safety camera trailers
Thousands of traffic cameras across the state
Police drone fleet
Penalties vary for different hooning offences. For example, driving in a way that makes unnecessary noise or smoke carries a maximum fine of 20 penalty units ($2669) while the most serious offences, such as careless driving—also known as driving without due care and attention—or street racing, carry a maximum fine of 40 penalty units ($5338) or 6 months in jail.
In addition, for specific offences classed as hooning—anti-social behaviour in a motor vehicle—police now have the power to impound, immobilise and confiscate the vehicle you were driving when you committed the offence.
Under the Queensland Government’s COVID-19 economic relief package, Queensland households will automatically receive a $200 rebate to help offset household electricity and water costs.
In order to provide this assistance to households as quickly as possible, the household utility assistance payment will be credited to customers’ electricity bills.
The payment is made up of:
the $50 electricity asset ownership dividend for 2020
plus
an additional $150 to assist households with their utility bills this year.
This assistance is in addition to any other energy rebate or concession for which customers may be eligible.
Regional Queensland residential customers will start seeing the utility rebate appear from April 2020 onwards, depending on their individual electricity bill cycle.
South East Queensland customers will begin seeing the credit on their electricity bill from May 2020, depending on when they are due to receive their bill.
The utility rebate is being provided to residential customers who are separately charged for their electricity.
Customers who don’t receive a separate electricity bill (e.g. where electricity is included as part of the rent) are not eligible to receive the rebate.
Arrangements are in place for customers with on-supply arrangements and customers using a card-operated meter to receive the utility rebate. See below for details.
Households who pay their landlord, property manager, caravan park owner or body corporate in an on-supply arrangement are eligible for the rebate.
These customers will have the rebate credited to their bills by their on-supplier or electricity billing company.
On-suppliers are required to lodge a claim (using form 511) with their electricity retailer.
Households with card-operated meters are also eligible for the rebate, which will be automatically transferred to their orange power cards (linked card).
Our $220 million school works program is set to be a jobs bonanza for Queensland tradies, creating more than 720 local jobs and upgrading school facilities across the state.
We’re already investing more than $1 billion into education infrastructure projects across the state with five new schools on track to open their doors in 2021.
Our $477 million Cooler Cleaner Schools Program will air-condition every classroom, staff room and library in every Queensland state school by June 2022, and we’re putting 180,000 solar panels on school rooftops.
This additional investment means schools across the state can engage local tradies to build, paint, and repair facilities, creating jobs and boosting Queensland’s economy during this global crisis.
More schools, more teachers and better facilities means a world-class education for our students.
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