No more green tape
THE local government election campaign is in full swing in Mareeba Shire.
The signs are up and the rhetoric has begun. The shire is going to need staunch and solid councillors who will take the shire forward and support infrastructure development like the proposed new road to Cairns and the construction of new dams.
North Queensland has been held back by decades of the Labor/Green alliance and their most recent destructive deed is to halt reasonable subdivisions in Mareeba Shire on the trojan horse excuse the Kuranda Range road cannot take more traffic.
The new council should get on-board and support local members Bob Katter and Warren Entsch in their efforts to get the new road and a dam built as quickly as possible. Alas, I have detected Green sentiments from some council candidates who wish to tie us up in even more green tape and stop any development in the shire.
Beware voters, councils have enough green tape impediments already from an over-regulating Labor/Green state government whose sole wish is to halt any development north of Townsville.
The vast welfare dependent areas of the Far North get the lion’s share of taxpayer funds at the expense of the wealth generators in the farming and mining industries — a fact the state Member for Cook cannot deny.
Voters at the council election must be on the lookout for Labor or Green candidates. The shire cannot afford them. Keith Courte, Kennedy Highway 1911: Australian prime minister Andrew Fisher announces plans to nationalise monopolies.
1967: Death of Henry Luce, US publisher
and co-founder of Time magazine. 1970: Nine Australians are killed and 29 wounded in incidents at Long Hai hills during Vietnam War.
1973: Australia reduces federal voting
age from 21 to 18.
1982: Fire destroys Braeside stables, Melbourne, that once housed Phar Lap, the 1930 Melbourne Cup winner.
1996: Britain’s Princess Diana agrees to divorce her estranged husband Prince Charles.
2013: Pope Benedict XVI becomes the
first pope in 600 years to resign.
2019: A nine-year-old boy and his mother, believed to be French tourists, are flown to hospital on the Sunshine Coast after being attacked by a dingo on Fraser Island (above).
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