By Aileen Harrison* In April 1998 we moved into our dream home at Highland Plains, near Acland, Queensland, starting a tourist attraction with bus loads of tourists arriving to see our alpacas, as well as our craft and memorabilia display. Alas for us, the Acland open cut coal mine started up in August 2002. We […]
Treated CSG water to be pumped into town water supply – story seeking CJ @stephaniedale22
October 28, 2013
Treated coal seam gas water will be pumped into Chinchilla‘s drinking supply, under a new scheme announced by Western Downs Regional Council. QGC (formerly Queensland Gas Company) has announced it will begin pumping 80 megalitres of treated water a day to the Chinchilla weir, for use in agriculture and for domestic purposes. Western Downs mayor, […]
Groundwater: out of sight, not out of mind: @molessarah reports
October 24, 2013
By Sarah Moles Very wise people have said some crucially important things about water. For me, Leonardo Da Vinci summed it up best with: “Water is the driving force of all nature”. W.H. Auden comes a close second: “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” Given its essential place in supporting life, […]
Bob n Beattie BBQ: @stephaniedale22 reports
September 1, 2013
[clear] By Stephanie Dale 1 September 2013 There’s been a curious absence of fight in Peter Beattie during the last couple of weeks on the 2013 campaign trail – but today that changed, with the former Queensland Premier charging out of the corner into the Forde ring, following Labor’s campaign launch in Brisbane. Fiiiiiinally, Beattie had […]
Jan Pukallus on poetry, free trade and politics: @stephaniedale22 reports
August 23, 2013
By Stephanie Dale 23 August 2013 For 12 years, Jan Pukallus has been running for election in Queensland – and today was a moment of celebration for the veteran campaigner: it was the first time she’d been invited for a sit-down interview by a journalist. Pukallus is the Citizen Electoral Council’s (CEC) candidate for Forde, the […]
Super-safe Gold Coast Liberal Moncrieff: @TheMarphy reports
August 17, 2013
View Larger Map Moncrieff Seat profile By Paul Whelan I joined the Young Liberal movement with my friend Shane Dumbrell in 1982 fresh out of The Southport School. When I turned 18 a year later I decided to become really active. The next eight years were a roller coaster ride. I was elected Gold Coast Young Liberal Treasurer in 1983 and […]
Forde hosts Beattie: @StephanieDale22 reports
August 12, 2013
View Larger Map Forde Seat Profile By Stephanie Dale @stephaniedale22 12 August 2013 For most south-east Queenslanders, the Division of Forde can be summed up in two white words on a green signpost: Beenleigh and Logan, exits off the MI between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. To a zillion daily commuters and travelers heading north and […]
Ready to go on @NoFibs Election13 citizen journo seat reports
August 4, 2013
by Margo Kingston 4 August 2013 Nearly fifteen years ago, when I was a political journalist in Canberra, I tried to get posted to Bourke to report rural and Aboriginal affairs from the outside in. Now I’ll be covering the 2013 election from the Gold Coast with 20 plus reporters on the ground in seats around […]
#QldPol and the birth of Newmanism
July 31, 2013
By David Marler @Qldaah No Fibs Queensland Reporter 31 July 2013 Out of all the Australian states and territories, it is Queensland’s Newman Government that is the most indicative of what an Abbott led Australia might look like. Welcome to hashtag #Qldpol. May 17, 2012: New Premier of Queensland Campbell Newman rises and delivers his maiden […]
Is the ‘liberal’ in the Liberal Party a case of false advertising?
March 2, 2013
By Noely Neate March 2nd, 2013 When I was young I would see something I thought was unfair, have a rant about it (obviously have not changed over the years) and my dad would mutter under his breathe ‘bloody bleeding heart liberal’. As a youngster I never really knew what that meant, though I did […]
