queensland government

Meat workers face axe in Darling Downs

February 9, 2010 by admin

(SMH) A government rapid response team has been sent to investigate the best available options to save the jobs of hundreds of meat workers on the Darling Downs, west of Brisbane. [..] The Leitch Pastoral Group on Monday stood down 230 staff at an abattoir at Killarney, near Warwick, and a food processing plant at Pittsworth, near Toowoomba. [..] Queensland Premier..said on Tuesday the state government would be working with the company and its workers to try to keep the company afloat. [..] "We have a rapid response team that will be out there talking to those workers and providing them and the company with options about how they can keep the organisation afloat." read more

Wow, a "rapid response team" for Queensland meat workers, and only "human wreckage" for 300 NSW meat workers. Do we all live in the same country? Considering the federal government is letting foreign cattle possibly with dieses into Australia, there seems to be an odd pattern of local Australian abattoirs having problems.

Moral objection to fluoridation

February 9, 2010 by admin

(Gympie Times) IN a show of defiance, Cr Jan Watt decided to walk out on a Gympie Regional Council Works and Services Committee meeting discussion about fluoride on Tuesday. She said council was instructed by the Queensland Government to vote in favour of fluoridation and decide how they were going to implement it. Cr Watt said she had a conflict of interest with the discussion as she morally objected to mass medicating without the consent of the people. read more

This woman is a dangerous thought criminal!!! Imagine asking the public for their "consent"? We love you Cr Jan Watt, but we the people that know how to use a toothbrush need your eyes and ears inside with those scoundrel Captain Bligh water dogs.

related: 2,700 Professionals Call for an End to Fluoridation of Drinking Water

Bligh and MPs check into luxury hotel

February 3, 2010 by admin

(SMH) Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and her ministers will check into a luxury Gold Coast hotel on Tuesday afternoon for their annual planning retreat. Ms Bligh says the Caucus gathering is vital to plan priorities for the year ahead, including how the state will continue to deal with the fallout from the global financial crisis. Ministers will put their heads together at the Watermark Hotel and Spa at Surfers Paradise, which offers four-and-a-half and five star rooms. "As we continue to feel the fallout of the global financial crisis, we are at a critical juncture in Queensland," the premier said in a statement on Tuesday. "Our government is determined to get on with the job of creating new industries, creating jobs and importantly, continuing to...." read more

....sell off $15 billion dollars worth of public owned and profitable assets??? Captian Bligh is beyond sober belief. We live near Brisbane and had to put up with this horror woman implementing without public referendum, fluoride into our drinking water while she was an unselected intern. A good commentary about public owned assets being sold off can be read from Ziggy Zapata's website here The same silly $%$#% while out trying to find fiat currency, is going to blow $350 million moving grade 7 children into high schools. Hey NSW, now you know why you're GST  is heading up north to Queensland.

related: Bligh rewards vote rigger with "big" pay rise