Free Marquees for Community Groups
IT’S THAT time of the year when I am providing FREE MARQUEES to be used by groups in the Maroochydore Electorate for community purposes. Please email my office at maroochydore@parliament.qld.gov.au by July 20 if you would like to be considered for a marquee for your club or group. I have a limited number, so they will be allocated on a first-in basis – so get in quick!
Winter Newsletter hitting letter boxes
My Winter Newsletter will be delivered to your letterbox in the next couple of weeks, so keep an eye out for it… I have a cost-of-living giveaway in it, and of course, my Weber Baby Q that you can enter to win by completing my 30-second survey on my website.
Community Corner – July 29
I will be holding a community corner on Saturday, July 29, at the IGA at Mount Coolum from 8-9 am. Come along and say G’day! I look forward to seeing you.
As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need help or want to discuss any issues of importance to you.
State Budget
At a time of high cost of living, last month’s State Budget failed to deliver solutions for the Sunshine Coast and Queensland to lower power prices, unlock more affordable housing and cut crime rates.
Despite $60 billion more in revenue than forecast, the State has nothing to show for it to support families and small and family enterprises.
I support reasonable measures to help ease the cost of living, but the one-off measures in the budget are temporary. The electricity rebate will help temporarily but it will not cover the 32 per cent increase in the first quarter of this year – the biggest increase in the nation. That’s why the failure to maintain the generators has had such a huge impact on household power bills, and why we have committed to a maintenance guarantee for generators to keep the lights on and put downward pressure on power prices.