Letters to the editor...

At Wednesday’s (July 25) Mount Isa City Council meeting, Mayor Joyce McCulloch was in joyful mode advising the gallery of the upcoming 25th anniversary of Riversleigh Fossils, next year.

There is no doubt that the magnificent work undertaken by Glen Graham in bringing this collection together for the interest of residents and visitors to the North West in 1994 and his managerial expertise in overseeing the establishment of Riversleigh Fossils, is to be recognised.

However, in this Mount Isa’s 95th year, there has been no recognition of this milestone in our local history by the Mayor and her Council.

This indeed is the first Council not to have hosted a year of celebrations within the city, as each sitting  Council has seen fit to do at the half decade mark, since Mount Isa was gazetted a Shire Council in 1963.

Nor has this Council acknowledged in any celebratory way that this year, 2018, is the 50th anniversary of when Mount Isa was bestowed a ‘City’ on 30 May 1968.

So, it is no surprise then that this Council has not commemorated the 50th year of the John Campbell Miles Memorial Clock which was unveiled on the 8 August 1968.

Mount Isa was once a proud city; proud of its mining heritage and proud of its history.

There has been no other Mount Isa Shire or City Council over the past fifty years that has been so dismissive of the glorious and unique history that has identified the building of this community, as the present Council one that is presided over by Mayor Joyce McCulloch.

When the Mayor told me that … history was dead, no one is interested in history … I did not fully realise that she was serious as has been demonstrated by her and her Council’s total disinterest in the historical milestones that should have been celebrated throughout this year.

Ah! But then our history is not her history and that says it all.

Queenslanders are sick of paying high power bills.

And last week’s ACCC report shows what the LNP has been saying all along, the Palaszczuk Labor Government is using the state-owned generators as a secret tax collector.

And frankly Queenslanders are sick of it.

According to the ACCC, Labor’s merge of three state-owned generators into two has driven up electricity prices.

But the LNP has a plan to drive down prices by restructuring government-owned power generators from two to three entities.

We believe by splitting the government-owned generators competition can be maintained while keeping these generators in public ownership.

The ACCC was also scathing of the gold-plating of the network by the Bligh Government and recommended a voluntary RAB write-down in Queensland with Australian Government assistance – a policy we took to the last election.

There is no longer any excuse for Labor to keep electricity prices high.

The report recommends reform and recommends the LNP’s policies.

Annastacia Palaszczuk needs to swallow her pride and adopt the LNP’s policies or Queenslanders will continue to pay high electricity bills.

Queensland deserves better.

LNP Shadow Energy Minister

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