Did the Police orchistrate the "HIT" on carl Williams ?

Consider a territory was where one of the gangs is sanctioned by the government, one gang has been known to run drugs, launder cash, beat people, and go even further with the sanctioning by having power over all citizens without having another body to limit their activities or even keep the bastards honest.

Such a gang does exist, it was virtually called that, a gang, in the documents from the Fitzgerald enquiry into corruption, many years ago; that gang is called "the police"

Gangs often have turf wars and often they get it wrong and an innocent gets in the way and a tragedy occurs, often its just a series of eye for an eye killings from two rival gangs that make headlines, and the media just loves it because it sells.

The arrest of Carl Williams took a long time, a lot of investigation, and at the end of the day, someone to grass him it seems, because the police are really either not up to actually catching criminals, or just can't be bothered most of the time and rely really on unequivocal evidence from someone to get the job done.

Carl Williams used body guards when he was a free man, they went everywhere with him, he knew he was a target and a big one, so once arrested he was kept in maximum security, for his own protection and further his accompanying inmates were screened very carefully .

But why was he being treated so specially, and so well in prison?

Well a spokesperson, one would have to guess from the police, leaked to the press that they(the police) were paying Carl William's child's school fees, and a considerable amount to his ex wife and to him possibly as well.

That was Sunday.

With the news that Carl was getting money from the cops hitting the newspapers, within a day he was dead, and the rumours were that he had done a deal, assumed that he was inside for the rest of his life, and wanted to look after his kin and was giving information to the police in exchange for cash.

Now the police have been in the crime business for a while, and you'd reasonably expect them to know that the eventuating or releasing information to the press that someone was assisting them with names would be lethal to that person, no doubt about that.

Further consider that Carl had no more names to give, or that his price had become too high, or that he was thinking the risk of giving more information was becoming too high, whatever; or even that the police just didn't want to pay any more money.

It's simple to use the system you're in, the criminal system or the underworld as they call it, to do the job you can't be seen doing, and that is to remove the problem, that way you don't have to deal with it.

So it's a big question, but a reasonable one, the police must have known that by releasing details of financial dealings with an inmate would lead to further consequences, or in underworld terms, a HIT.



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The Biggest backflip, sheer desperation.

As Bligh's popularity plummets to depths not seen since the end of the Joh era, it seem there is, in her mind, one safety rope still dangling down to her from the edge of the abyss, Daylight savings.

So with the kind of backflip you'd expect from someone with far longer legs, she has donned the athletics gear and announced a referendum on daylight savings in a couple of time zones and wants the public to discuss it at length and form their own opinions about it.

You see, Daylight savings has seemed popular in the city area of South east Queensland where Labor has always got nearly all of its seats, and it's now become a bandwagon that a desperate Bligh cannot resist just one quick ride on.

Of course there are skeptics out there who would say the very idea of putting forward an idea that you have previously and often dismissed outright as never going to happen is now there to hide things like the failings in the health care of Queensland and of course the fire sale of almost every income producing asset owned by the people of Queensland without their consent.

And I have to say it appears to be working too, with everyone either supporting or denouncing the idea, and vigorously too.

I honestly don't believe industry and retail who claim they are missing out on millions by being out of sync with the southern states, if it is that critical that you align your business to the times used interstate then that's what you do, you don't need to change your clock to do it either, if it's that important you just get up an hour earlier and get it done.

To those who impassioned that they will utilise the extra hour of evening to go to the beach etc, you can do it now, except you just start and hour earlier (beating the traffic) and knock off an hour earlier (again beating the traffic) and do it.
My guess though is that if you need everyone else to have to change times because you're too lazy to start and finish an hour earlier then you're probably too lazy to even get off the couch and go anyway.

The ones I feel sorry for are those who start early already, and those with young kids. Th ones who start very early and work outdoors actually benefit from an extra hour early in the day with less direct overhead sun, but they probably can't get to sleep early enough because it's still light and hot. Similarly those with kids, it's hell, and I've been there.

At the end of the day this is just a smokescreen, designed to get a sector of the community, lets call them the lazy selfish ones, to think she's actually going to do this for them and not for her own salvation.

WWF . . . what the hell are they thinking?

The blundering and loose lipped buffoon voted into a safe seat due mainly to a high profile 80's singing career even after stating on a national high rated TV current affairs type show that he'd never keep any of the promises made before the election after Labor wins it, has been given another award he does not in my opinion, deserve.

FEDERAL Environment Protection Minister Peter Garrett has received an award for his "life's passion and work" from international environment group World Wildlife Fund with WWF Australia chief executive Greg Bourne saying Mr Garrett received the Leaders for a Living Planet award for his environmental work both before he entered politics and since he became a minister.

Good lord, are the WWF mad?

Did they just give an environment award to the man who approved a pulp mill, known to be of the worst type of polluters in existence, for one of Tasmania's pristine areas and which it seems will allow the harvest of old growth trees until plantation timber is of useful size.

And did they just give this award to the man who approved the pressurised pumping of acid down bore holes into uranium deposits to dissolve the radioactive mineral which can then be pumped to the surface and harvested, meanwhile acid and radioactive material has the potential to pollute the fragile water table of South Australia

And did they just give this award because Garrett has allowed use of his name and profile to other environmental groups (including WWF)

yes to all the above.

This is a real slap in the face to real fair dinkum hard working hands on conservationists who are working hard with very limited or self generated resources to achieve some very good results.

This pathetic award almost seems to be out of step with the expectations of those who donate to WWF either time or money and worse seems to make environmental activity seem pointless if awards and recognition are given to those who cause more environmental damage then the real environmentalists can put back.

We'll never fix the forests in Tasmania and well never fix the water table in South Australia, not in a million years.

I can only assume this is a politically motivated award since it's not too long until the election and Labor are not doing too well and they probably want to assure the Minister for " Batts are burning" doesn't get the boot and have to reform Midnight "foil"


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Why become a federal politician, a million good reasons.

We all sit back and wonder why someone who seems to "hate" so much, seems to be using position and influence to hurt community and seems to be so unhappy with themselves that they are resorting to any and all means to alter themselves.

I'm not going into "haters" in this story, or community bullying and manipulation and certainly not even touching enhancement or removal of ones own self, at all, because even with all of that which you'd probably love to hear about, there are a million other reasons to become a federal politician, all of them . . . . Dollars.

Yep it's all about greed. cutting the BS and the glib lies about serving the community, it's about filling the back pocket, end of story.

In an article, the local paper reveals:

THE cost of a keeping a single federal MP has become a million-dollar a year burden to taxpayers - the same price as a luxury Lamborghini supercar.
The average salary of MPs is now $180,000 a year, but the real cost is more than five times that - with a string of entitlements totalling $721,000 and a further $164,000 a year spent keeping tabs on the cost.

Entitlements federal politicians receive include airfares, chauffeur-driven vehicles, travel allowances, ministerial salary top-ups, electricity and electorate office rentals.

The politicians' entitlements have become so complex that 315 bureaucrats are now employed fulltime in the Department of Finance to make sure the country's 226 federal MPs are properly paid and equipped. This includes paying 1700 political staffers - nearly eight staff for each MP - costing taxpayers $99,000 each on average, or another $169 million, according to the Department of Finance.

They haven't even included the sumptuous surroundings in which federal MP's work or the catering, drinks, etc. or the provision of tools, electronics , software, publicity, and you can easily double the figure the get if you add these on.

There is a proposal to do away with some of the allowances because of the cost of monitoring the claims for them, (it seems that many politicians claim everything, and then just take what they can get away with, rather than only claim for what they do, so monitoring and checking needs to be done to keep the system honest and the checking costs a hell of a lot of money in itself. The replacement idea is to just give the pollies a lump sum and let then go buy a couple of investment homes with it, oops I mean use it in the way they best deem it needs to be spent, cut out the monitoring and save the taxpayer some big dollars.

But really, is this just pandering to the greed even more, I think so. Personally I think they should be punished severely if they claim something they're not entitled to, sacked perhaps, I mean they should set an example, we pay a lot of tax to keep them don't we?

So it turns out that all the pontification about helping the public, representing the community, and sacrificing for public life is a crock of shit, they're In it for the money and it's big big money. no wonder they are willing to take people to court with any and every allegation, to keep the hand in the public purse.


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The Reserve Bank , . . . again.

The last blog about the Reserve didn't seem to enthuse you much, but I'm just so annoyed at the arbitrary way we are treated, and how they make decisions which cannot be based on the reasons they tell us they are based on.

It is predicted that interest rates for Reserve Bank money will increase by another 25 basis points (a quarter of a percent) as a result of Tuesdays monthly meeting, and I feel , going on what I'm reading in the press that that is going to be the case.

The reasoning has been given that the housing market is beginning to grow and sales are yielding greatly increased prices and auction clearances are improving.

Bullshit!

Mr Glenn Stevens, has been in the press making statements in the last few days that are worrying to say the least, to me they reveal an agenda to exclude ordinary Australians from the housing market by allowing either prices to rise above affordability or interest rates to become unserviceable on basic wages and salaries.

A look at Auctions will tell anyone who's keen on property investment that the majority of lower and mid range properties have a plethora of phone bidders from overseas and many foreign buyers in the actual crowd and in the last 3 months those I've attended have in the majority been sold to a foreign buyer, this is backed up be recent reports by the real estate institute, and reports on network TV current affairs programs.

OK, so if it is the case that foreign investors are still buying, and bidding against each other, with easy to obtain, low interest overseas money, and driving the prices up in doing so, how can raising the local home loan rate do anything but keep Aussies out of the market?

Has the Reserve, Mr Stevens, or any of the board really, looked at the retail sector trend as opposed to credit card debt, to bank sector figures of debt repayment directly from credit cards, I think not.

Mr Stevens, it seems, is so out of touch, so insulated from what it's like to be a battler, and so engaged in doing the work of the government agenda he follows, that he doesn't care how many Aussie battlers have to give up their home, struggle to keep them , or even go without to do so, he doesn't give a tinkers cuss, after all he manages his mortgage pretty well on his million dollar salary.

Mr Stevens, it seems to me that you need to be sacked and replaced by someone who has Australia's interests at heart, by someone who is not a traitor (as I believe personally that you are) and by someone who can work out that if the community of Australians are forced out of home ownership and into renting from rich overseas investors, then by your own workings out, interest will continue to rise as they all have to furnish rental houses most likely on credit, but with significant increases to the retail sector, another one of your lame triggers for increasing rates.

It's time we had the reserve work for the good of the public, it's time our banks actually worked for the money they make in the billions, it's time our rates matched the rest of the world, and Aussie property was available to Aussies and affordable to them without the banks bleeding you dry to own it.

Sorry Mr Glenn Stevens, but in my opinion you are a traitor and a fool.

Pariah's on the reserve bank board.

The battlers on the lower pay scales have recently got a pay rise, quite a small one too, most in their own EBA's gained about $20 a week, not much is it considering how everything seems to be going up.

What does sickens me is how out of touch these big shots at the Reserve Bank seem to be because within a week or two of getting this latest pay rise the Reserve lifts the cash rate by a quarter of a percent, effectively ripping your pay rise right out of your hand and gifting it to themselves for fat bonuses.

I know well the theory of monetary policy and I'm old enough to have seen the worst uncontrolled examples of monetary policy applied defensively and the damage it can do to the general wage earner.

I also know that in real terms monetary policy is the only tool they have in their arsenal to control inflation and keep the current account from blowing out in huge proportions.

However, it seems to me that they have erred in their calculations of how growth indicators are performing due to manipulation of statistics and data to show real growth where stability is really what's occurring, particularly in the building sector where growth does not appear to be happening if you count slabs on ground but growth has occurred if you count new loan applications due to people who own their property having to refinance to put personal money into their businesses, or renovate rather than buy new.

the reading of the data can be interpreted either way, it's guess work when you're up at lofty peaks in your tower looking down on the workers and saying Let them eat cake, isn't it.

Reds are under the bed, ok.

Australia's most prominent political "ranga" has come up with a scheme ( is that how you spell scam )which she is trying to sell as a device to protect the identity and privacy of those being educated in Australia by issuing them an identification number so they can access a government website to see how they're going.

And I suppose if school children are slower at walking, at noticing large moving objects that might intersect their chosen course, to the point where we've had to reduce the speed limit by up to half outside schools then the chances they are also not able to assess just how they're doing at school.

Our "ranga" is without doubt a communist, and this issuing of a number to replace the identity of our children as far as the government is concerned is straight out big brother stuff and will continue through out their life becoming part of their TFN and then probably carved onto their tombstone.

I'm trying to keep this short, but really is the only answer this government has to any and every situation to bring out a website ? get over it, we don't need it, or want it.

And while we're on the subject, I've never met anyone who was happy to get carted off in an Ambulance to hospital, but now they can see just how their stay is going to pan out before they go by logging onto another government website that rates their hospital and gives information about how many medical accidents have occurred and more.

Now people are stressed out when they go to hospital, they don't need the added stress of knowing that one in a hundred patients with heart problems has a leg amputated by mistake. Not that that event will actually happen, but you get my drift.

People need to log off these government websites in droves, seriously. they are going to turn you into someone you won't like and turn our democracy into a country that is more communist that Russia.

Two thirds of the old Beaudesert unrepresented, again.

Logan, Queensland, Australia, and the people of Division 11, Division 10 and Division 4 are left unrepresented by their councillors, something that many residents, particularly in 11 and 4, claim is a common occurrence with representatives missing meetings to avoid declaring conflicts of interest, and to pursue personal career opportunities.

The recent meeting where the issue of Pay rises for councillors was discussed, was held not long after another meeting which was attended by the three aforementioned councillors but in a strange twist they claimed their absence was a protest about concocting a plan to secure the pay rise by stealth, according to the news reported locally in a quote from Cr Ban. The twist is that previously she had in the media accused the rest of the councillors of attempting to reject the pay rise to stop the non chairing councillors from keeping in step with the recommendations from the independent tribunal. Confused? well so am I,

As far as being a spokesperson for salary, and considering the rise would see the city’s 13 elected representatives each pocket an extra $3050 to $5170 a year, and that the base pay without car, unlimited fuel allowance, phone , laptop, telecom services paid, office staff, and facilities, and probably other allowances is already around the $100,000 mark with the amalgamation loading, you'd think someone preparing to dump their division to pursue another elected position against a vow not to do so, and someone who previously continued to take a salary from the ratepayers while campaigning and failing to secure a federal seat before would think twice before looking so greedy and making a last ditch grab for more money before the next federal elections are called.

The real problem is that despite the very weak excuse of "a protest" for not attending, the excuse was made after, and to the press i believe, leaving the say of the people of those three divisions unsaid, and it's not the first time in some cases. The people of those divisions deserve better, they pay their rates and a councillor does very very well on the remuneration they receive for the little work they do ( apparently you can do the job . . . and. . . run a campaign for a federal seat without either suffering ).

Residents being unrepresented by a councillor at meetings should be a sackable offence.

The joke is, that it seems the councillors really want the pay rise, they really do, but they are trying to appear as if they don't support it now that it has come to light that if the base rate is handed down by the independent tribunal, council cannot pay less than that rate and if they vote for tat rise it has to for all, worse, failing to vote is a vote for the rise because it reduces the number against, just as abstaining in the meeting would be recorded as for.

The charade will probably be a TV stunt for the federal campaign, there isn't any other reasonable explanation because a real protest would have been to go to the meeting , have your say, represent the people like you're supposed to , and vote against if that's the view of the ratepayers.

The unfortunate thing for the old Beaudesert Shire area, it means that only one out of three councillors attended that meeting, and gave representation of the views of the ratepayers, the other two thirds of our area were unrepresented again.

Israel, marching toward genocide in Palestine ?

It seems that Israel is happy to hide behind "The Holocaust" and claim victim status in its continued aggression with Palestine which appears to be about simply killing off Palestinians and taking their land, or Genocide.

Israel is careful to ensure it controls public information about its activities , especially its military conquests and the prisoners it has captured and who dies during air strikes and tank sorties telling the world that the majority of the deaths are terrorists, refusing to front the world media to justify the thousands of women and children killed in their homes.

Recently the targets of the Israel war machine, funded to the tune of unlimited $$ millions by the USA have changed and it is actively seeking to raid individual residences and arrest and deport foreigners who have seen the real war and are helping the Palestinians to protest peacefully and attempt to get the world media to see what is actually happening rather then continue to publish the sanitised version that sits so well with Israel still portrayed as the victim.

I'm so curious as to how so many high density buildings can be indiscriminately bombed in air strikes killing hundreds of collateral to target a single "enemy of Israel" when the war machine is now capable of finding individuals who have overstayed their visa, conduct midnight raids to arrest them and remove all their electronic communication and data storage devices before they are deported from the country.

The world is slowly becoming uncomfortable with the continued military attacks on a desperate and diminishing population of very very poor people who have been sanctioned to the point of barely being able to get food and recently loosing the only real supply source for the things we take for granted such as household items and car parts which were all smuggled into Palestine through tunnels.

Israel seems scared that foreigners have become aware of the situation and have joined Israelis who also condemn their own governments policy to eradicate Palestine and that they may get real footage of real events out to the world media which contradicts the version the Israel government allows the rest of us to see.

Closing the door on Bloggers right to anonymous comments.

As Politicians get younger, they seem to be also getting very thin skinned.
The new breed of political wanna-be is starting straight out of high school or University without any real work history or life experience, they seem obsessive about having a certain look or dressing for the part and being good looking and they want all the older seasoned politicians to simply step aside and gift them a seat without having to put in any of the hard yards at all and they cannot tolerate any criticism at all. They seem to lack the life experience that tells one that not everyone is going to fawn over you and agree with your every word and that does not make them your enemy to be attacked when you have risen to a level of power in the political sphere where you can use it to retaliate against them.

Many people will tell stories of how a particular politician harassed them or besmirched them in the press or even had others physically accost them or their property and even go as far as having the police come to their door and threaten or even arrest them; all hearsay of course but when recounted by the actual community members affected appear to be for no other reason than to silence them.

Blogs have been an avenue where people can openly discuss issues, have an opinion in either support or disdain for public figures and their deeds and freely with the use of an anonymous or nickname without fear of being retaliated against by an elected representative.

You see the thing is these young bloods of our political world have worked out that you get paid very well for very little work as a politician, you also double (at least) that in allowances (cars, office, budget etc) and again with the very generous superannuation and travel available so that two terms can set one up for life. However it goes even further than that as after public life there are contacts and boards where one can once again do very little and be remunerated well, and all that is just for the honest politician, the crooked ones can really do well.

Recently there has been a development where South Australia has become one of the few states in the world to censor the Internet by creating a law which was pushed through last year as part of a raft of amendments to the Electoral Act and supported by the Liberal Party, also requires media organisations to keep a person's real name and full address on file for six months, and they face fines of $5000 if they do not hand over this information to the Electoral Commissioner.

The law will affect anyone posting a comment on an election story in Newspapers, or online editions including editorial types and it also appears to apply to election comment made on all types of Blogs and the social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Under current federal legislation, it preserves the right of internet users to blog under a pseudonym but there is reason to think that the future will be different as the younger representatives begin to get preselection for the major parties and being forced to the ballot box as we are will get voted in and follow the changes that have been put in place by the SA Attorney General.

What is crazy funny is that the Attorney general thinks his draconian laws do not impinge on free speech or invoke retribution and yet believes that he will be singled out for attacks in the press and web based editorial sites for instigating these changes.

Personally, I use a pseudonym because I do know that certain elected people will attack me, no doubt about that, they've already tried and even though in a perfect world i agree that every comment should be made by a real person who has the courage of their convictions to say their bit and put their correct name to it; but it is certainly not an ideal world and people with power can be corrupt and use that power to silence individuals, it's happening right here in Queensland, Australia, right now.

Further, consider the whistleblower, where for example a party member knew that a colleague had a conflict of interest and did not declare it and in fact profited form that non declaration but couldn't give that information to anyone in the party but could make it public under a nickname, well that could no longer happen because they would be identified.

Unfortunately to preserve democracy you have to accept its failings as well as it's advantages, freedom of speech is being diminished by this law, no doubt about.

Judge, Jury, Executioner and a Merry Christmas.

The negotiating skill of the police have been found wanting again on Christmas day when a man was shot and killed in a home at close range.

It's a sad time for many people, Christmas, those who have recently lost loved ones, those who have no one at all and those who due to separation won't be enjoying a nice quiet family day like many of us will and it's sad to think that it could escalate to the point of the police having to intervene and result in them ending a persons life needlessly.

I don't know the intimate circumstances and I'm not blaming anyone, I mean imagine being the person, a police officer, who has just shot and killed another human being, how are they going to enjoy their Christmas while their mind considers all the variables and the questions and doubt go through their minds along with the guilt in some cases, all normal feelings.

A good Friend of mine was crying on Christmas eve, one of the nicest blokes you'd ever meet, a real tough bloke too and a seriously hard worker who gave everything to his kids, yet he cried like a girl because he found out that the money he'd sent the soon to be ex wife for the special gifts for his kids had been used to take them away for the holidays, and perhaps forever since he was supposed to pick them up for his days last weekend and have them home for Christmas day and found a for sale sign outside the house and it empty and deserted.

He's had no word, can't make contact and even her relatives are denying any knowledge of the move except that she has recently moved a new bloke into the home.

Now my mate has a great supporting family and good friends but he's as wounded as if he'd been stabbed by this, and as he was taken by surprise, very distressed. He has contacted the police who say they can't do anything because it was a mutually agreed separation and there has been no government or court settlement she can effectively do as she pleases, also she has taken out an AVO citing that she is scared of him so if he physically tries to find her and his kids he can and will be arrested for stalking and breaching an order.

Back on topic, Christmas is like a magnifying glass when things are good and equally when they are bad, and it's so sad to see what should be some of the best memories of any child's life be the most tragic memories, when a father gets shot in a home by police.

I just don't think our police are well enough trained in negotiating and counselling agitated people and calming them in a tense situation, I'm sure if they were both they and those they are attending to may have a better result.


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Logan overlords reign down rules to make us pay

It seems the Logan councillors have bowed to the (what I call a hate campaign against growers ) market garden fear campaign and are set to create policy that will make growing some surplus vege and putting them out front with an honour box, an illegal activity if your block of land is too small.

in seasons past, and any gardener will tell you this, conditions vary in some small way so that one particular pest may become so prevalent compared to other years and one particular crop may out perform your expectations based on usual growth and yield for that crop, and I have had it happen once with tomatoes which grew so well the leaves were almost twice the usual size and the fruit so abundant that it was at least 4 times the usual amount to harvest and off a dozed or so plants i had so many beautiful tomatoes that my family and friends were sick of my constant gifting and I just couldn't find anyone else to give them to so i approached the local fruiterer who on seeing mine was happy to give me a store credit in return for a box or two a week while they were producing. That will now be illegal if my land is too small.

Now I know people got pretty upset when one particular lot were buying up local blocks, usually 5 acres or more and wholesale clearing them and covering them with plastic igloos, but that's not the issue of this discourse, rather we are simply talking about any vege patch on any block which will be smaller (it's yet to become law) than about 2 acres where the grower may sell off some surplus and therefore come under the term "market garden"

It seems well known that the driver of this issue is the preselected candidate for Wright for the LNP and current councillor , who has in my opinion tried any and every way of creating policy or law against local growers in a constant campaign that can only be described as a "Hate campaign" in my opinion.

It is odd that someone who seems to have an obvious dislike for growers would seek to represent people in an area that is even more rural than the one in which she is now, and one which which is predominantly growers.

I have heard that there has been an astonishing back flip done recently where the candidate now claims that there are only some grower problems in Greenbank and that all other growers are now, amazingly , lovely; what a coincidence!

The real problem lies with the rest of the "Bogan Overlords" or councillors who have agreed with this idea and are likely to shove it through on the strength of a fear campaign about sprays and pesticides.

Ehough on that because the Overlords have barely begun with their attack on our land use rights they also intend to shove through a policy on heavy vehicle parking that would make any feudal rules proud, it seems that once again two acres and under, you are going to pay Logan for the privilege, Yes, pay them money for something you have always been able to do.

Once again i don't understand why our representatives want to extinguish our rights to continue the use of our land that we've always had. actually yes I do understand it, and it's about money and land values and demand.

You see we're something a little special, we have rights the rest of them don't and our lots are in demand for anyone who wants to park up their truck between jobs or overnight, and those with small minds want to see us brought down to the same level as those in the old more suburban logan.

Those small minded councillors with their small minded committee ( and I'll add that even the truck drivers on that committee seemed to agree with the council position because they personally will not be affected by the new regulations and since it's not in their backyard, are happy to see others charged a fee and an ongoing annual charge to continue doing what they have always done, and for the main reason they probably chose NOT to live in logan in the first place.

It really galls me to still hear this stupid inane retort from logan that they didn't ask for this and that it was forced upon them because it's utter rubbish , yes they have continually asked to have their boundary moved south into Beaudesert several times, and because of the previous rules, before the unscrupulous Beattie changed a few words at a time at midnight meetings to remove our right to decide our own destiny by referendum which allowed us to veto it at the ballot box, we were able to thwart their attempts to take over our area, on our terms unlike now.

Logan has put it's nose into our business and thinks we do not see that these two issues, with some reservations to lots under 2 acres is just the thin end of the wedge and a precursor of things to come where as the urban footprint grows so will the regulations until we are either forced out by necessity , rated out or harassed by council so that remaining becomes untenable.

It's a sham we do not have one councillor who is prepared to actually represent the general public, instead of ruling like primmadonna's or in my opinion "overlords"

I say do not pay, do not bow to their idiocy, do not scrape to those would be masters, and do not vote for this crop of bludgers again.


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