A controversial list

THE Australia Day Honours list was long and controversial with some good appointments and some highly inappropriate and wrong.

One such appointment was former LNP Queensland Premier Campbell Newman. Mr Newman was a disaster as Premier; he slashed and burned from the very day he was elected.

He slashed and burned the Queensland hospital and health system — slashing very important programs for the health of communities in the Peninsula and generally slashing staff levels in the Queensland hospital system.

In the past trains and rolling stock were very successfully constructed by factories in Maryborough and Ipswich.

His government imported them from India which prove to have safety problems and were a bad decision necessitating costly alterations; some are still undergoing alterations. If he had been reelected he would have sold off the electricity industry.

He is only the second sitting Premier in Queensland to have lost his seat at an election. To award Newman an AO was quite inappropriate.

John Phillips, Edmonton 1649: Britain’s King Charles I is

beheaded.

1854: First Cobb & Co coach leaves

Melbourne for Bendigo, Victoria.

1933: The murderous dictator Adolf

Hitler is named German chancellor. 1966: Prince Charles arrives in Australia

to attend Geelong Grammar School. 1995: John Howard is unanimously

elected Australian Liberal Party leader. 2008: The Australian government says it will issue its first formal apology to the indigenous Stolen Generations on February 13.

2013: Australian prime minister Julia Gillard announces the federal election will be held on September 14.

2017: Susan Kiefel (above) becomes Australia’s first female chief justice of the High Court after being sworn in at a ceremony in Canberra.

2018: Former Lord Mayor of Melbourne and chairman of the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix, Ron Walker, dies aged 78.