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Record of Proceedings, 28 August 2025
Next week is Beaudesert Show week, and it will be a great gathering for the whole community around the Mount Lindesay Highway corridor. People will be able to find me from about 3.30 pm next Friday serving chips and burgers from the Rotary van at the Beaudesert Show. It is a great way of connecting with people there, and I take my hat off to the Rotary Club of Beaudesert and all the other community groups that get involved in the show.
We do not just have the Beaudesert Show. The Scenic Rim electorate is very wide and we have a lot of shows that people contribute so much to. We have the Boonah Show, the Kalbar Show, the Canungra Show and the Tamborine Mountain Show. On the periphery we also have the Rosewood Show in the electorate of Ipswich West, for which my grandfather was secretary for 19 years many years ago. We also have the Laidley Show over the hill from Grandchester in the area you represent, Mr Deputy Speaker McDonald.
Shows contribute so much to our communities, and that is why it is great that our government has been able to provide the first permanent uplift in show society funding in almost two decades. We are supporting volunteers and community initiatives through our show movement. I wish everyone a great Beaudesert Show week and thank everyone who contributes to that movement.
Another great community movement in Beaudesert has been for a Beaudesert PCYC. It has been championed by a group called the Youth and Community Centre for six years or so now. At the moment a land management plan is out for review which has been put out by the Scenic Rim Regional Council and proposes a site for a police citizens youth club in Beaudesert alongside a proposed sports facility. I urge everyone in the community to get behind this plan put out by council, which includes a site for a PCYC. There has been some funding allocated by the state towards that PCYC. I also acknowledge the funding that was allocated a couple of years ago. Some of that has been spent. We are now looking for further sources of funding—federal or state. The first thing we need to do, though, is nail down a site for that facility. The council has come on board and has put forward a site. I urge the community to get behind it and support those who have brought this idea so far already.
In relation to services for my electorate, I thank the Minister for Transport and Main Roads for his recent determination, through Translink, that the Demand Responsive Transport service for Tamborine Mountain will be made permanent. It was started on a trial basis a couple of years ago after lots of urging by me and the community over many years. I am pleased to be able to announce to the community that the service will be made permanent, and Translink will be working with the community to try to enhance that service. It is still quite limited for a community of around 7,000 or 8,000 people, but to have it made permanent is a terrific step. I thank the Minister for Transport and Main Roads for doing that and backing in that funding. It is part of the LNP government’s 50-cent fare program as well, and it is a great initiative.