policies

Read Andy’s speech from the Meet the Candidates evening in Beaudesert on March 12, 2009.

Establishing a Centre of Excellence for Sustainability (research, tertiary education, industry training, community education)

Valuing and supporting our youth - Funding for Youth Workers for Boonah Jimboomba and Beaudesert to work with young people in accessing training, entertainment, recreation and employment opportunities.

Trialing of Queensland Job Guarantee (Full employment) Program in the Beaudesert electorate delivering paid employment and training for the young and long-term unemployed to provide environment and personal care services. Priority for environmental services would to improve the condition of Teviot Brook.

Establish Community Mental Health Centres with 24/7 psychiatric nursing support at Boonah, Beaudesert, Jimboomba and Tamborine Mountain.

Create a Wellness Program to reduce the incidence of preventable diseases that cost 50% of our Health budget.

Introduce legislation and planning regulations to establish the primacy of good quality agricultural land over other uses and to protect it from alienation (by mining, urban and industrial development) supported by local scale maps.

Support initiatives that protect and promote the scenic amenity, natural and cultural values of the Boonah district (e.g Green Cauldron – National Landscape)

Transport

We need to develop a public transport system that meets the needs of our community and is more attractive than the use of the private car. We need a funding model that pays for public transport as the essential community service it is.

Communities across the Beaudesert Electorate have pressed for better public transport for over 20 years from an upgrade of the interstate line to more bus services across the region. None of this has been delivered by successive Queensland governments. The Queensland Greens will turn this around.

Farmers

As the managers of the largest proportion of Queensland’s natural and production landscape, farmers should be celebrated, supported and rewarded for the role they play in producing our food and managing our natural resources”.

Download Beaudesert Greens Information

Local Measures include:

Community Health and Planning