examinator, rehctub here;I don't quite know what you're on, but I wouldn't mind trying some one day, as how you got that dribble out of what I said ammazes me.

1. I don't live on 10 hct, I do have a 'hoby farm', about 700hct but I don't live there and I definately don't own horses.

2. I have been married to the same lady for almost 25 years, I have two great kids and love my family and work. So I'm affraid I'm not your average bloke.

3.Now your problem is capital gains. Ok, you may consider your property as super but it was your choice to enter into land speculation so who's problem is that?

Absolutely no idea where this came from!

4,5,6,7 & 8. Anna Bligh didn't blow the money. Now this one takes the cake!

As I said, I don't know what you're on, but I would surely love some!

Thanks for that particularly good post CJ. Possibly the best you've ever written, or perhaps the only good post you've ever written?! ( :>|

Yeah the Qld Groans...er, Greens, have got the right idea. Their planning and development policy is good. It could well be that they are a whole lot better than the national Greens and a whole lot better than they were in ~1996 when I left them.

But..... where's the publicity on this all-important issue?

Are the Qld Greens really trying to push this stuff? Or are they not particularly interested or perhaps spinning one thing in writing and doing something else in practice?

I don't know. I used to be in the Qld Greens and even ran as a candidate in 1995. But I have lost touch with them.

I haven't lost touch with the subject at hand though, and it seems to me that they have never tried very hard to get Beatty or Bligh to deal with population growth or sustainability.

Would you be so kind as to provide a bit more detail on just how they are in practice dealing with these issues in Qld.

Rehctub,
My apologies my memory is obviously flawed when it comes to your earlier posts. I am clearly confusing you with someone else.

The 'it's my super' argument is one that I hear a lot from people with with large land holdings. Aging farmers and hobbists alike.

I read your post and that of Hasbeen in his topic, where you seemed to complain about capital gain. Given CG is a state tax, I figured the condemnation of Bligh in this one were linked.
The horse thing was hasbeen sorry.

As for Bligh personally responsible for the blowing of the budget and not dealing with legacies from previous decisions it isn't as clear. Perhaps you can enlighten me where she blew it. Given I don't live in Qld all the time I may have missed something.

Desalination plant, pipes linking dams,Extra for hospitals, legal costs for same, the gateway up grade, the Goodwill bridge, BCC extra funding , Travison dam where please? They all seem either reasonable or legacy items to me.

Given there was an election in the middle and she won comprehensively To complain not seems more than a little churlish, or myopically self interested i.e. the people of the Mary river valley. They tried to make it a state issue but failed miserably. policy by for small pressure groups is counter productive for the whole...

The major issue that occurred in her term was The GFC definitely not her creation. The mining ind stalled and means to combat the crisis hence the cash flow crisis therefore the budget issues.

NB I wasn't convinced about the dam but democracy rules.
NB I am neither for or against her.

Many who slam her are against her politically and as such party political bias runs amok ...particularly With Hasbeen and some of Ludwig's reasoning. Your views also seem to come into the conservative mind set.

No criticism intended just observation.

Will the $3,000 even cover relocation costs for people who choose to leave Brisbane for the bush, or even for a regional centre like Townsville or Cairns? Not likely. And in cities like Townsville and Mackay, blessed with ridiculously high property prices as a result of the mining boom, buying your first home is quite an ambitious project to say the least.

Otokonoko
I would think only those that are going anyway will get the $3,000. It is not enough incentive in itself is it. You are right, not enough to motivate people to move. No plan.

Also infrastructure. Mackay was a good example. They were allocated infrastrucure funding based on resident population which did not include the 10-15,000 people who lived in tents, cars, motels etc due to housing shortage. Did someone ever wonder why so many tourist in Mackay? lol.

However this is how it goes. The government follows the population around and then has the problem of providing infrastructure after they move somewhere. There needs to be a plan to encourage people to an area where there is a plan in place for future growth. Why keep repeating same mistake. Ooops too many people moved here now we need road and water and houses.

There are no visionaries, no long term planning, no mission statement. They should be making the state sound like the next hotspot for the world to take notice. BRICQ nation!. :)

It's a pity that Ludwig can't just acknowledge when he's wrong, but has to conceal his ignorance with snark.

<< Would you be so kind as to provide a bit more detail on just how they are in practice dealing with these issues in Qld. >>

Do your own homework - I've already provided a link to the website where all the policies and media releases are located. Bear in mind that the Qld Greens' budget is minuscule when compared with the ALP and the LNP.

I will, however, point it out when you're egregiously wrong.