MOUNT MORGAN OUTDOORS

Firearm Accessories – Militaria- Fishing – Bait

- Archery – Ammo – Gifts – Television Antenna

Sales & Installation - Metal Detectors and Prospecting Gear - Camping Gear!

ABN 86 894 469 085

Eric J Stevenson. DNRME License to Sell Explosives 1300622

69 Morgan Street, Mount Morgan

Firearm Sales / PTA’s still from 11 Glen Gordon Street by appointment

Firearm Dealer License No. 50001499 Mount Morgan Guns

CNR YAAMBA RD & MAIN ST

NORTH ROCKHAMPTON

Phone: 4928 3511 trendrok@bigpond.net.au

PROUDLY SERVING MOUNT MORGAN FOR OVER FORTY YEARS

Deslea’s Cutz for Mutz

Mobile Dog Clipping

Phone Des: 0447 275 402

Finlayson & McKenzie

Funerals

Sandi Wood (nee Inslay) from Mount Morgan was born and raised within the Mount and is well aware of the needs of the Mount Morgan community.

Bob Wheeler 0419 663 277 Po Box 91

Mt Morgan

Tilt Truck Service, Excavator

Slashing, Mowing, Tractor and Poison Spraying

Licenced Poisons Contractor

Sandi is Mount Morgan’s funeral consultant and is available for all funeral advice.

Contact Sandi for more information and competitive prices with burials, cremations or prepaid funerals.

Sandi Wood your local consultant

Phone: 4922 1269 fmckfunerals@live.com.au

It’s been a busy month as Mount Morgan’s representative in the Federal Parliament. We’ve seen the 2023 Budget handed down by the Federal Labor Government.

There is no doubt that this country needs a strong economy with lower taxes, business incentives and record infrastructure investment in regional Australia. Unfortunately, the Federal Labor Government’s priorities are the exact opposite, and this was clear in this year’s Budget.

Some of the major changes that were included in the Budget were:

- A review on the $120 billion infrastructure pipeline has been implemented, putting all regional programs in doubt.

- A 6% increase on the Heavy Vehicle Road User Charge over a 3-year period which equates to more than an 18% increase over 3 years.

- Billions spent on early learning, and not a single dollar will go towards creating new places for children who need it most.

- The Labor Government broke its headline election commitment to older Australians to have a registered nurse on site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in every aged care home in the Flynn electorate by 1 July 2023.

- Broke another election promise to deliver 50 ‘urgent’ care clinics within their first 12 months in government, including the clinic promised in Rockhampton.

- $3.5 billion ripped out of community pharmacies, cutting vital services for patients.

On a positive note, the Federal Labor Government has somewhat addressed cost-of-living pressures felt by many Australians families including by increasing rent assistance, job seeker allowance, single parenting payment cut-off and tripling of the Medicare rebate.

However, many people will not be eligible for these cost-of-living assistance measures.

After the Budget, I spent my time travelling the vast Flynn electorate. During this time, I visited Mount Morgan and held a community catch up with locals at the Grand Hotel (above left).

In attendance were some representatives from the Rotary Club of Mount Morgan who were recently successful in receiving $1,500 for a point-of-sale system from the Federal Government’s 2023 Volunteer Grants. Congratulations.

I then stopped by the Mount Morgan Railway Museum and checked out the 1903 Hunslet Steam Locomotive.

Over the past two years, dedicated volunteers have spent hundreds of hours to complete the refurbishment of the locomotive. I would like to congratulate all involved. (Left)

As always, if you have any matters relating to Federal issues, you are welcome to visit us, call, or email Colin.Boyce.MP@aph.gov.au.