State Politics

Senator’s alarm at Gates-funded GM mozzie release

QUEENSLAND Senator Gerard Rennick has raised alarm over a joint venture between the national science agency and a Bill Gates-funded biotechnology company in which genetically modified mosquitoes will be released across the state.

Rob Mellett

15 Jan 2025

Politics

Bourne backing North Ipswich dumps sufferers

IPSWICH West MP Wendy Bourne urges those people affected by noxious odours in her electorate – and not included in the Inquiry – to make their voices heard in the waste industry health investigation.

Rob Mellett

15 Jan 2025

State Politics

Health inquiry raises more questions than answers

IPSWICH community leaders have given a lukewarm response to the declaration by the LNP state government of a public health inquiry into the potential health impacts of waste industry odours on our residents.

Rob Mellett

15 Jan 2025

Ipswich

Feds return $86k to Meals, Wheels in 2nd funds boost

THE Federal Government this week handed back Ipswich Meals On Wheels (IMOW) $86,000 in funding.

Rob Mellett

18 Dec 2024

State Politics

Greens see silver lining in election woes

IPSWICH Lockyer Greens branch spokeswoman Danielle Mutton says “positive swings” in their primary vote and the falling away of One Nation were reasons to hold their heads high.

Rob Mellett

30 Oct 2024

State Politics

How the state election played out in Ipswich

THE LNP will form majority government, with the party likely to win 49 seats, with 39 for Labor, three KAP, one Green and one Independent.

Rob Mellett

30 Oct 2024

State Politics

Howard pays respect to Culpeper campaign

LOCAL Member for Ipswich Jennifer Howard says she is “humbled” to be returned to her seat after “interesting experiences on the booths”.

Rob Mellett

30 Oct 2024

State Politics

Bourne snatches win from jaws of by-election defeat

FORMER Premier and Cabinet staffer, Wendy Bourne, has regained Ipswich West for Labor despite a 10.5 percent swing to the LNP compared to the 2020 election.

Wendy Creighton

30 Oct 2024

State Politics

LNP caught off guard as youth crime rate plummets

A LOCAL sports identity says the LNP policy to crack down on at-risk youth is totally misguided.

Rob Mellett

23 Oct 2024

State Politics

Political pundit predicts local election results

WITH only three days until we head to the polls for the State Election, Labor must prove to regional voters that it deserves a fourth term, while the LNP is determined to convince voters the state needs a fresh start. Emeritus Professor John Cole...

Rob Mellett

23 Oct 2024

Development

‘Development critical … for affordable housing’

THE lifeless bodies of a mother and baby koala were found on Redbank Plains Road still clinging to each other as locals spoke out about the crisis facing Ipswich native animals.

Rob Mellett

09 Oct 2024

State Politics

Labor finds cash for tennis courts, athletics track

LABOR has committed $5 million for a synthetic athletics track at the University of Southern Queensland Ipswich campus.

Rob Mellett

16 Oct 2024

State Politics

Greens suspicious if health probe will ever happen

“I WOULD do cartwheels if I could.”

Rob Mellett

16 Oct 2024

State Politics

Parties clamour to promise second river crossing

STATE Labor has promised $146 million for a second city bridge crossing.

Rob Mellett

16 Oct 2024

State Politics

Toft in $800k Showgrounds lights election pledge

THE LNP says it will give $800,000 to Rosewood Showgrounds for long-awaited lights if it wins the vote in Ipswich West.

Rob Mellett

09 Oct 2024

State Politics

Ipswich bus route shakeup brings new services

A RAFT of new bus routes will begin to roll out across Ipswich over the next couple of years.

Rob Mellett

09 Oct 2024

Ipswich

Your state election candidates for October 26

LABOR will make a bid for a fourth term in government as the Liberal National Party looks to wrest back power for the first time since Annastacia Palaszczuk ousted Campbell Newman in 2015.

Rob Mellett

09 Oct 2024

State Politics

NuGrow gets four years to fix stink

THE crackdown on the stink from Swanbank composter NuGrow has been dubbed “a joke”, and the facility would have been better shut down.

Rob Mellett

25 Sep 2024

State Politics

Free traineeships offer lifeline future tradies

A NEW fund is helping young local tradies build their careers.

Rob Mellett

25 Sep 2024