ELECTED REPS

Backflip flop

I was so disappointed to see that council had back flipped over the sportsground camping contract. I have no idea about who objected to the short term camping grounds.

It seems very short sighted to ob ject.

The campers provide a presence in an area of our town which could be a place of vandalism. They also spend their money in the small businesses who really need the extra business. Most of the campers are mature quiet people,not likely to cause any problems in our community. Council please reconsider.

Leigh McCulloch Glass House Mountains

Global gaslighting?

The Global Warming Cultists that seem to have booked themselves a permanent posting space in this letters to the editor section continue to spout their diatribe as they try to convince the rest of us of their theories and predictions. However their predictions and so called science continue to fall flat. I notice it’s the 5 year anniversary on June 21 2023 of their pinup child Greta Thunbergs cataclysmic prediction - and guess what -more failed science.

Oh well I guess we will forget that as they move onto their next prediction (naturally filled with all the science and data they can muster) of the end of the world.

Shane Daly Peachester

Paying a 5G premium

TELSTRA- If on the Sunshine Coast expect 1G service and pay a 5G premium.

Pathetic comes to mind to describe Telstra that here is a mega billion $ organisation that fails to deliver 21st century technology anywhere except major capital cities. Their own advertising proves this point. Take note next time you see their ad on TV.

An organisation that has a problem being truthful. Those in the Beerwah area would have received a text message re proposed upgrade works and outages commencing 29th May for SIX (6) days. Six days turned into NINE days and is still ON GOING until 14th June. Me personally it has been extremely frustrating and adding costs having trying to deal with a legal matter and causing delays and lack of Email correspondence. Driving to Landsborough 3 x times a day from up near Peachester for reception and again it was limited. Several people in the same park on phones obviously trying to do same as myself. “Communicate”. Lost business due to no online. EFTPOS machines connected to a mobile. Online ads that I placed thinking I would have a service approx. 3rd June only to have no service still from that date. How many businesses and people have suffered. Why sooooo long ??? And the weather should not be an excuse. Was supposed to be finished on the Sunday before we had rain.

I had previously taken the matter of poor mobile reception at Beerwah up with the Local Member who took it up on my behalf with Telstra. After my mobile was monitored by Telstra for TWO weeks I was advised due to the fact I lived in a house with a tin roof was why I had to travel out into the front yard to have reception. I am sure Blue Scope Steel would argue this point. Hook up with Broadband they said would help. No land lines out here so again its mobile. Seems like Telstra excuse here is live in a straw house and drive a plastic car you “MAY” get some reception. Additionally an email from Telstra advised “NO MOBILE UPGRADE WORKS WERE PLANNED FOR BEERWAH IN THE NEAR FUTURE”.

Seems like the left hand in Telstra really knows what the right hand is doing. Hence my comment on having a problem with the truth. Copy of this email can be forwarded. Telstra Case 54862500

Telstra Stores. Try booking an appointment online with Telstra Caloundra. Turn up on time and place is locked up. No one home. Another couple standing around also who had made an appointment online.

Telstra Maroochydore – A little bit wiser now as to how Telstra conduct themselves you say want to purchase a “new phone” and receive the quick welcome mat. Then ½ way through the sales pitch you tell them this is the issue with my current phone I want rectified before we go any further. Job done. Do unto others as they say.

No one wants hollow apologies, excuses, inuendoes typically Telstra throw about. We are all over that. To me Management in Telstra for the Sunshine Coast are out of their depth, out of touch and oblivious to what is going on or better still don’t want to know. That “toooo hard basket” again.

A petition should be started and sent to the Telecommunications Ombudsman regarding being charged a 5G premium for a 1G service on the Sunshine Coast QLD.

with Andrew Powell State Member for Glass House State Budget Woes

LAST week, the Palaszczuk State Labor Government handed down their ninth budget. It was lack lustre at best and dismissive at worst of the entire Glass House electorate. In the midst of a youth crime crisis, there are 72 less police officers in Queensland than there were at the time of the 2020 election. And while the Premier talks a lot about housing availability and affordability, it’s been just that – talk! There are no new solutions proposed locally. There was no money allocated for the Sunshine Coast Heavy Rail project, which is such an important link from Beerwah to Caloundra to Kawana and onto Maroochydore. And even more locally, there are no planned improvements to the number of ‘problem roads’ in Glass House where road safety has been called into question again and again.

New Local Hero Winners

I’ve recently selected another four winners for my Local Heroes Grants and am excited to share them with you:

• Sarah, Stella and Billie – funding towards flying to Cambodia to teach English and hygiene to young girls;

• Cranky’s Farm – helping to purchase winter feed for rescued farm animals;

• Maleny Seed and Harvest Swap – covering venue hire fees for swaps;

• Woodford State School P&C – funding for a bush dance.

This round received the most applications so far making it harder than usual to pick the winners. The next round closes on Thursday August 24. If winning $250 sounds beneficial for you or your community/ sporting group, be sure to head on over to my website and apply!

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Stop, in the name of stupidity...

I was excited as the next croc to spend the better part of a year waiting for Steve Irwin Way to be upgraded from a single lane 80km/hr stretch to a slightly wider single lane 80km/hr stretch between Beerwah and Landsborough... with a new set of traffic lights.

And for a while those lights at Australia Zoo seemed a fair cop.

It’s a popular place and there’s plenty of vehicles entering and exiting, especially during the school holidays.

But surely it’s not just me wondering which dope at Transport and Main Roads set the light change switches.

I am regularly forced to stop at a red light heading southbound when there is no week? All I wanted last Thursday was an omelette but do you think I could find a carton of eggs? Woolies was out, the IGA was all out, barring a curated, handpicked social essentials such as, say, affordable housing - should be held to account.

In saying that, property owners should act a little less like rabid capitalists and the increasingly foreign concept of a moral obligation to do right by others, especially if you have the means.