• Labor MPs Jeer Country Small Business over Easter Sunday Public Holiday Law
• Shut Up Shop if you Can’t Pay 43 % Wage Bill Increase

The LNP has successfully protected the rights of Queensland farmers after Labor’s extreme vegetation management laws, which came at the expense of the State’s agriculture sector, were voted down by Parliament.

• MP Pleads for funding for Heart of Australia mobile cardiology clinic
• Moral duty close rural health outcomes gap
• Mobile clinic confronts the issues creating the gap

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