Emerald’s Tuesday Ladies Cancer Support Group this morning heard that the ongoing problems with the processing of patient travel subsidy claims for patients travelling for treatment from the Central Highlands have been raised with the senior executives of the Central Queensland Health and Hospital Service by the local member Lachlan Millar MP.

Comments about the Heart of Australia mobile clinic made by  Minister for Health Cameron Dick to the Queensland Parliamentary Estimates Hearing yesterday show he has little understanding of, and even less interest in, closing the appalling health outcomes gap for rural Queenslanders according to the Member for Gregory, Lachlan Millar.

• CQHHS responds to local members complaints
• Staff numbers to be boosted and claims backlog cleared
• Emerald Hospital Patient Travel Office to take full control

• Bi-Partisan Visit brings Ag and Environment MPs to Longreach
• Committee Chair and Deputy Chair to Learn about Check Fences
• They will also learn about DCQ’s Prickly Acacia Fight

• Queensland Health refuses to fund mobile cardiology clinic
• Slap in the face for rural cardiac patients says Member for Gregory
• Rural CVD patients more likely to die under current service model

Two new rounds of funding has opened for sporting clubs seeking state government grants to support and grow their clubs.

Local member Lachlan Millar is urging Gregory clubs to apply before applications close on September 1.

• Quilpie Council wins $300,000 state government grant
• Funds will deliver a multi-sport facility for Quilpie Shire

• Inaccurate mapping undermines basis of tree legislation
• Law Society criticises breaches of citizens rights in the pursuit of “efficient” prosecutions
• Local Member says laws motivated by green groups desire for more convictions

The LNP Opposition did what the Palaszczuk Government won’t by calling for a Commission of Inquiry into the re-emergence of black lung disease among Queensland coal miners.

• Lachlan Millar backs Save Our Sparkies petition to stop Labor’s electricity giant
• Labor’s Ergon/Energex monolith will unfairly compete with mum and dad businesses
• LNP are standing with our Sparkies in time of uncertainty