It has been awesome to see the re-emergence of Tamborine Mountain’s Rugby League club this year. I’m a fan of many sports – to play and watch, and in the case of some of my children’s’ teams, to manage/coach/help out from time to time. What a run from the Bushrats, whose Senior Team emerged as Minor Premiers this season, their first back in many years.

Thank you to those key people who drove this club’s renaissance. From the coaches to the managers, the people maintaining the Showgrounds (including the Show Society) and those helping with other various jobs that need doing from week to week; thank you and well done. Although the result last Saturday was not the one we wanted, it has been an extraordinary effort by all involved this year and I commend you all for the spirit shown in providing another option for sport and recreation on Tamborine Mountain.

ROADWORKS ON TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN ROAD – CURTIS RD TO IGA SHOPPING CENTRE
There’ve been a lot of delays and disruptions with these works, that’s for sure. Locals and especially businesses in that area have borne the brunt of delayed work schedules and traffic management clogging up traffic. Main Roads’ latest info sheet outlines that wet weather has seen a mid-June 2022 completion date turn into an end of September 2022 completion (although given recent weather and the forecast, it may turn out to be longer). Work during the day is completed for the moment. The frustrations of locals and businesses has been communicated clearly to Main Roads and they are well aware of the impacts these projects can have. The road desperately needs work – along with many others victim of a nearly $6 billion backlog of repairs and maintenance this Labor Government has allowed to develop – and so let’s hope it is completed as quickly as possible and to a good, durable quality of work.

LABOR CONTINUES TO FAIL SCENIC RIM – AND ALL QUEENSLANDERS
A few weeks ago, the Palaszczuk Government’s extraordinary incompetence was exposed (again). Budget Estimates committee hearings revealed an extra $3 billion of taxpayers’ money has been wasted, on top of other waste already identified by the LNP in this term. The third-term Labor government is losing control of spending in Queensland.

This money could have built two hospitals and employed thousands of nurses and doctors in the middle of a health crisis.
The list compiled from two weeks of Estimates is extraordinary.

Here’s a sample:
- Wellcamp quarantine centre cost Queenslanders at least $220 million
- A $2 million advertising strategy produced 2 tradies
- Millions of dollars allocated to a Koala Lab at Dreamworld was instead put into a new rollercoaster
- Taxpayer money is being used to stop a report about Jackie Trad from being made public
- Cross River Rail has blown out to $8 billion
- An IT upgrade in the energy sector has blown out by $186 million
- Almost $1 million was spent on the Caloundra Youth Jail before the project was cancelled
- Government granted $4 million of small business grants in error and are now spending more money to try and recoup those grants.

Queenslanders deserve so much better than this.