Helping the heroes that help us
IN a heart-warming display of community spirit, local residents have come together to donate new equipment to the State Emergency Service on Winnetts Road in Daisy Hill.
It’s been one year since floods devastated many parts of our City.
As the waters rose and homes and community infrastructure was destroyed, our local SES volunteers were on the front line, helping to rescue those who were stranded and delivering vital help in the recovery.
Inspired by the efforts of our local Daisy Hill based SES, I joined with the Springwood Youth Advisory Committee and the Lions Club of Rochedale / Springwood to fundraise together to get our local SES depot some new equipment including:
- Fans
- Batteries
- Charging Packs
- Heat Gun
It’s been a privilege to be part of this effort and a community that values and supports our SES volunteers. These brave men and women put their own safety on the line to help us when we needed it most.
To all of our SES volunteers: thank you. Thank you for your courage, your dedication, and your unwavering commitment to our community.
New Rochedale SHS Hall
WE’VE broken ground on the new Rochedale State High School, celebrating the start of construction for the new school hall.
It’s been a real team effort to see this project come to fruition, with school P&C leader Alia Smith, principal Elena Itsikson, and the state government.
This brand new multi-purpose sports facility will benefit students, teachers, parents, plus local tradies who’ll deliver the project.
The hall will host netball, basketball and volleyball courts, kinesiology lab and theory room as well as staff and student amenities. Construction is due to be completed at the end of 2023.
EMP Satellite Hospital
FOLLOWING an onsite inspection last week, I can confirm construction on another one of seven satellite hospitals is well underway.
On land behind the RACQ headquarters on Levingston Rd at Eight Mile Plains, our community will be able to access a range for critical health care services, closer to home.
The new state-of-the-art Satellite Hospital is due to be operational in 2024, delivering a range of services to be confirmed, from wound treatment to cancer care to take pressure off the Logan Hospital.
Also incorporated, will be outpatient community-based health services with virtual healthcare opportunities for your family.
The Satellite Hospitals Program represents everything the state government stands for. Good jobs, better services, and a great lifestyle.
Estimates on construction are that this new facility will deliver top-quality care, closer to home by 2024.
Spotlight on Solar Recycling
WE’RE installing rooftop solar at record levels, and it’s no surprise because solar power equals savings on household budgets.
But I’ve heard loud and clear from our neighbourhood, that you don’t want to see old solar panels ending up in landfill.
That’s why I announced a solar panel recycling scheme. The new scheme (building on the success of our cash-for-cans model) will happen in two stages:
Stage one will identify participants and locations to divert end-of-life solar panels from landfill and recover their useful materials.
Stage two will see on-ground collection, recovery and recycling of panels, focusing on rooftop installations.
We already have to pay to dump this sort of rubbish at Logan tips, so we may as well get real value, stop it from being wasted, and instead recover it into valuable products, creating massive manufacturing opportunities for Queensland businesses and jobs.
Thanks to our Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan, we can keep end-of-life panels out of landfill, protect the environment, and bring back good, solid, Aussie manufacturing jobs here in our State.
We’ll own and deliver Copperstring 2032
QUEENSLANDERS will now own the largest transmission project in the nation.
Earlier this month, we announced that we will build Copperstring 2032, to connect Mount Isa to Townsville and the national energy grid, and we’ll deliver it before we host the entire world for the 2032 Olympics and Paralympics.
Building this 1100km long transmission line opens up 6000 megawatts (that’s more than double what we have now) of potential large-scale renewable energy and over half a trillion dollars of new minerals, extraction, refining, and manufacturing.
We should be proud, because this means as Queenslanders, we’re helping the entire nation go a big step closer to our emissions reduction goals, whilst making power more affordable- forecast under our plan at $150 lower by 2032.
We’ll create more jobs than our state has ever seen in a new, decarbonised resources sector, mining and processing minerals like vanadium, nickel, cobalt, and copper, for use in locally manufactured products.
What this means for Queensland:
- Capture, store and send energy from where it’s generated to where it’s needed most
- Unlock over half a trillion in new critical minerals
- 800 direct construction jobs
- Thousands of jobs in critical minerals mining, manufacturing, and renewables
- Billions in investment
- Energy security for the North West
- More affordable and reliable energy for all of Queensland
- Delivering on the Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan
I’m proud to be helping make Queensland the renewable manufacturing epicentre, the critical link between the world and the largest renewable energy zone in the nation.
That means good, secure mining and manufacturing jobs for Queenslanders for generations to come.
Find out more about Copperstring and express your interest in one of 100,000 jobs.
