Boundary Road and Bruce Highway interchange – Brisbane. Labor has enough seats in Brisbane to secure the next state election. What about some bribery for the rest of the state? FNQ is dudded every time – we rest our case
More than $285 million will deliver great places and spaces for communities across Queensland’s booming south-east corner
The SEQ Liveability Fund is one of the key projects being delivered under the $1.8 billion SEQ City Deal, a partnership between the Australian Government, the Queensland Government and Council of Mayors (SEQ).
The pool of funding is now open to eligible local governments to deliver projects that will help build healthier, liveable and more inclusive, connected communities.
That includes new parks and projects that promote health and wellbeing, as well as community infrastructure that complements new housing supply or urban renewal.
Councils can also apply for funding for regional sporting and recreation facilities to drive engagement in local sport in the lead-up to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The fund will also support projects that meet the program’s wider vision to support local businesses, jobs and maximise opportunities for First Nations people.
The SEQ City Deal is on track to deliver a significant package of investments with a value of $1.8 billion to one of the fastest growing regions in the country.
It is expected to benefit more than three million residents. (a sufficient number of voters to re-elect the ALP)
It is a collaboration between the three levels of government to deliver 29 commitments aimed at generating long-lasting benefits for the region.
Allocation of funds was determined from 2020 population data and is outlined in the below table.
| Liveability Fund total – $285.81 million | |||
| Council | Population | Funding ($m) | |
| Brisbane City Council | 1,272,999 | 120.84 | |
| Moreton Bay Regional Council | 479,639 | 45.54 | |
| Logan City Council | 341,985 | 32.46 | |
| Sunshine Coast Council | 336,482 | 31.95 | |
| Ipswich City Council | 229,845 | 18.18 | |
| Toowoomba Regional Council | 170,356 | 13.48 | |
| Redland City Council | 160,331 | 12.68 | |
| Noosa Shire Council | 56,587 | 3.58 | |
| Scenic Rim Regional Council | 43,625 | 2.76 | |
| Lockyer Valley Regional Council | 42,267 | 2.68 | |
| Somerset Regional Council | 26,279 | 1.66 | |
| Totals | 3,160,395 | $285.81 | |
Deputy Premier Stephen Miles said:
“The Labor Government is proud to be investing in our communities and delivering for our councils in the south-east corner.
“Thanks to our incredible lifestyle and strong economy, South East Queensland is booming.
“The SEQ Liveability Fund opens new opportunities to make our communities even better places to live, whether that be through more open spaces, infrastructure that complements new housing or projects that support health and wellbeing.
“Hosting the world’s biggest event brings with it unmissable opportunities to leave a legacy with community projects that residents can enjoy for generations to come.
“It’s great that councils have the opportunity through this fund to look at projects that can boost engagement in local sport in the lead-up to Brisbane 2032 and far beyond.
“This is our commitment to providing long-term improvements to the social, environmental and economic viability and sustainability of SEQ communities.
“It’s another great example of what can be achieved for Queensland when our three levels of government work together.”
It seems that our politicians still have not read the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia. The Constitution lays out what the Commonwealth powers are and the States have the leftovers. However the political elite seem to be deliberately amalgamating all the portfolios of Commonwealth and State.
Blisskitt, you are right on. We should be asking why that area of Queensland has so much attention by the State Government. What have they to hide in that part of the world?
The way these parasites are patting themselves on the back, anyone would think it was their money, not the taxpayer’s that they are throwing around.
What about compensation to those made critically ill and families of those murdered by the “vaccine”? They don’t count in electioneering.
I don’t know where or what that photo is showing.. ??? I live near and use the Boundary Road overpass often and that sure doesn’t look like it.
We are destined for a ‘zero carbon’ world.
UK Fires ‘Absolute Zero’ doc pdf, Chart on pages 6-7;
( ukfires.org/impact/publications/reports/absolute-zero/ )
Spending $1.8B on roads makes sense when there will be near zero private cars using them within 10 years. Future roads will be the domain of autonomous electric trucks, politicians and their protective guard and a handful of vulture capitalists.
The SEQ Liveability Fund operating as a partnership between the Australian Federal Government, the Queensland Government and Council of Mayors (SEQ) Pty Ltd. sounds just like the Victorian Government which is “partnering” with Councils, forming what they call, the Local Government Mayoral Advisory Panel (LGMAP), which is made up of 13 Mayors from across Victoria to advise the Local Government Minister.
It was back on 21 March 2022 that the Federal Government under PM Morrison, the Qld State Palaszczuk Government, and the Council of Mayors South East Queensland (SEQ) signed the SEQ City Deal which provides a shared commitment to “transform SEQ” and deliver “region-shaping infrastructure”.
It was the Morrison Federal Government that brought in the new National Federation Reform Council (NFRC) consisting of National Cabinet, Council on Federal Financial Relations, and ALGA. This new National Federation Reform Council established Expert Advisory Groups, NFRC Taskforces, National Partnership Agreements, and National Cabinet Reform Committees on topics relating to Rural & Regional, Skills, Energy, Housing, Transport & Infrastructure, Population & Migration and Health which all reported to the NFRC. At this time PM Morrison had stated that National Cabinet had replaced COAG.
However from the developments we are seeing in Qld and Victoria, both the LNP then and Labor now have changed our Commonwealth Constitution. Constitutional law expert, University of Sydney Professor Anne Twomey, insists asserting that the National Cabinet is nothing more than a committee of the Federal Cabinet, is detrimental to the federal system. “The concern is trying to pretend that an intergovernmental body which is comprised of premiers of each jurisdiction who are essentially equal in status, is in fact a body that is subordinate to the Commonwealth Cabinet,” Twomey says. “It’s wrong, it’s nonsense, it’s inconsistent with the reason for Cabinet confidentiality which comes back to the principles of responsible government.”
Of further concern is the potential to extend confidentiality to documents created by advisory bodies like the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee and other committees established by the National Cabinet. According to Twomey, this devolution of responsibility and protection is “murky”. “We’ve now got to the point of saying that we have Cabinet committees which have not a single person on them who is responsible to any parliament in the country. That is so far removed from what cabinet confidentiality is there for as a principle, that it is absurd,” she says.
lsj.com.au/articles/the-debate-over-national-cabinet/
The present Australia Federal Relations Architecture map states that National Cabinet is Australia’s premier interjurisdictional body, providing governments with a forum to work collaboratively on issues of national significance. For example: Mayor Cr Les McPhee of Swan Hill Rural City Council reported on June 22 2023 that Deputy Mayor, Stuart King, said he and Council CEO, Scott Barber had joined with other Mayors and CEOs from Murray River Group of Councils, for a series of meetings with Ministers, Shadow Ministers, and senior advisors at Parliament House in Canberra. They advocated for greater support for flood recovery efforts, infrastructure upgrades, renewable energy, recruitment and retention, housing shortages, rising costs of living, diversifying our economy, the Murray Darling Basin Plan and water buybacks.
News released on 25 Oct 2023 by the state’s infrastructure advisory body says that Victorians will be “happier” and tens of billions of dollars better off by 2056 if the state increases urban housing density rather than dispersing growth throughout the state. The research presents five urban development scenarios, including the ‘compact city’ which would see high density housing with more people living in townhouses or apartments in central Melbourne. “The Victorian Government, working with local governments and communities, can influence the shape of our cities,” he said. The compact city will lock people into tight areas, with the “help” of local governments and “communities”. Would that be ghettos? It appears that the target year is 2056.
They are laughing at us. It should be 180 billion. They throw a measly 1.8 because they consider us mind controlled zombies.
Without regional NW gas and iron ore together NE coal the nation would be impoverished and politicians would not have the money or the ability to borrow money to buy votes.
Ed. So they are sprouting themselves to be so positive, meanwhile are there the out of control bushfires in SE Queensland, as reported? Some of the footage I have seen looks very dodgy. Is there any one here who can confirm? It is namely the Tara/Chinchilla area? Is that not where those murders/self defence deaths occurred not so long ago?