This is an open letter to the Governor of Queensland.
stevem
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This is an open letter to the Governor of Queensland.
I find it necessary to write this letter through the newspapers because previous correspondence to the Governor, received only a curt acknowledgment by a staff member but no reply or acknowledgment from the Governor whatsoever.
I am appealing to the Governor who under the Constitution of Australia is the Representative of Her Majesty the Queen in the State of Queensland and as such the Guardian of our Constitutional and Democratic rights in this State. She is the Servant of the People, not the personal servant of the Government sitting there just to rubber stamp anything that the Government want.
I am appealing to the Governor, to call to order the Government of Queensland, dismiss the Parliament and call a fresh election and at the same time have the new “Constitution” that Peter Beattie created in 2001 put to a referendum of the people as required under the Constitution of Australia.
This Constitution was never allowed to be put to the people and totally removes almost all of our Constitutional and Democratic Rights. It was apparently given Royal Assent by a previous Governor in spite of the fact that the public were not allowed their legal, Constitutional and Democratic right to the Referendum.
These rights that have been taken away are allowed for in this unsanctioned “Constitution” include in part, the power for the Corporate Government of Queensland to seize private land for whatever purpose they see fit, the power to force Industries and Developments through without any consultation or information to the public if they see fit not to do so, and also the power to sell all of the Public Assets of the State without consultation with the public or Public approval to sell those Publicly owned assets, as well as many other actions.
It is the duty of the Governor to question and return to the Parliament and seek further advice on any matter that seems to not be in order or faulty.
The Governor will have to give Royal Assent to the Legislation to sell our Public assets and if she does so then she will be held negligent for not carrying out her duties to the People as required by law and under the Constitution of Australia and will be negligent in Giving Royal Assent to actions that allow the sale of public assets belonging to the People of the State without the approval of the sales by the People.
The present actions are in keeping with the previous Governor who stalled a reply to another very major matter that was drawn to her attention and the reply was held in abeyance for several months, thus allowing Beattie to “change the rules”
I encourage the People to take the time to write to the Governor and the Government and if they are not prepared to return the system of Elected Government and discard the Corporate Govt, Corporate Boards and Corporate Departments then Parliament should be dissolved and the People be given the right to decide on their own future.
Peter Neilsen, 22 Gladstone Street, Mt Larcom, Qld 4695.
stevem
by Peter Neilsen
There are a couple of questions that I wish to ask of the Government and the local “Boards” that do the dirty work for them.
In the case of the LNG industries being forced on to Curtis Island, has there really been a proper assessment of ALL sites on the Mainland or are we seeing the dreams of certain officials being carried out in spite of the impact on this beautiful island and the Environment?
Is there an element of punishment of the People of this Island and the Gladstone area because of obvious opposition to these forced proposals?
Have the Gas Companies really been given the real story and made aware that there may be other alternatives to curtis Island or are they told, the same as everybody else that this is where you will go and that is it? Perhaps there are other locations other than Gladstone that may even be better.
There is no opposition by the people to the industries, just the way that they are being forced onto Curtis Island without the people being involved.
The other worrying aspect of the whole gas and coal issue is that huge areas of prime food producing areas in the west of the State are being “stolen” from the owners to mine for coal and gas.
Is it not a fact that the Queensland Government have advised their Mining Comrades that they should claim as much of this farming land as they can now because the rules might be changed by the Federal Govt in the future?
Is it not a fact that they have been told that they should secure this farmland now so that far into the future if it is decided that more mining will be carried out, they will have the land and will not be bound to rules of the day because they will already have secured the land with the help of the Corporate Dictatorship of Queensland?
The new Re-vegetation and Land Clearing laws in this State will prevent Farmers from relocating to other sites and so our Domestic and Export Markets and opportunities will suffer and the food production being destroyed will have to be supplemented by imports from foreign countries such as Rudds beloved China where proper safety measures and proper growing practices are not always put in place.
All of this in the name of a massive number of huge LNG and coal industries being forced on to us by Govt Officials and others who seem to only be interested in their own agendas and self gratification.
The wellbeing and safety of the people is paramount. The utopian dreams of these people runs far behind this. These utopian dreamers will be long dead and gone while our Children and Grand Ghildren will have to contend with the legacy of stupidity and possible disastrouscircumstancethat was forced upon us in our time to feed inflated ego’s and self gratification.
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It appears that we are currently witnessing the first stages of a new entity that is right now taking over the operation of all Port Facilities north of Brisbane and as far north in the state as Rockhampton.
The Gladstone Ports Corporation and the Govt have announced that the takeover of the Bundaberg Port Facilities should be completed by September this year.
It was only on 1st October 2007 that the Bundaberg Port facilities (under whatever name it was at the time) were transfered to the Port of Brisbane Corporation.
If you refer to t page 7 of the GOVERNMENT OWNED CORPORATIONS (BUNDABERG PORT AUTHORITY WIND UP) REGULATION 2007. ( just Google that title) you will see the formula used to distribute the proceeds of the takeover to the GOVERNMENT SHARE HOLDING MINISTERS.
THIS ACT COVERS THE TAKEOVER BY BRISBANE OF THE BUNDABERG FACILITIES AND A SIMILAR FORMULA WILL CERTAINLY APPLY IN THE CASE OF THE NOW GLADSTONE TAKEOVER OF THE SAME FACILITIES FROM BRISBANE PORTS CORPORATION.
The Central Queensland Shoalwater bay area was another area that the Central Queensland Ports Authority (now also consumed by the Gladstone Ports Corporation) tried to grab to create another Coal Port but was rejected by Environment Minister, Peter Garrett late last year decreed that this would not be allowed and so further sites need to be acquired to create more Coal Ports. Enter Bundaberg.
In the last couple of years all of the ports in Central Queensland have been amalgamated to form a massively powerful Govt "Board". This will, as of September this year also include the Port of Bundaberg.
The CEO of this "Board" is also the Chairman of the Gladstone Economic industrial Development Board (GEIDB) that controls and enforces compulsory acquisitions of land in the Gladstone state Development Area (GSDA) that has already "Stolen" 28,500 ha of prime farming land between Mt Larcom and Gladstone and onto Curtis Island. The same man was recently personally appointed by KRudd to the position of Chairman of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
The GEIDB grab the land and the Ports Board build whatever is needed to get any products from the proposed industries onto ships. It is very handy to have the same person running both "Boards" and makes it so much easier to get what you want.
There is no doubt in my mind that Bundaberg will become another Coal Port. It is needed to replace the one that they could not get at Shoalwater Bay.
The present and future Coal Loading Facilities include Barney Point Coal loading facility in Gladstone, RG Tanner Coal loading facility in Gladstone, just to the north of RG Tanner is a new coal Loading Port currently being built at Wiggins Island (Gladstone).
There is another Coal Loading facility to be built at Port Alma, probably on the heritage listed Balacalava Island which will have huge areas of land resumed for storage of the coal at Raglan (the entire town of Raglan will have to go to accommodate this and rail expansion to 6 or 8 lines.
There are proposed massive land resumptions at Bajool, south Of Rockhampton to also store coal for export out of Port Alma and another proposed massive land resumption the allow for another coal loading facility on the Fitzroy River 12 kms downstream from the river barrage.
This is to be barged 15 kms out to sea to a massive floating platform out in the open ocean.
Port Alma was suggested as an alternative site for the Liguid Natural Gas plants but was rejected because of the difficulty in dredging the channels but they consider it very suitable for coal loading, which is a far more intensive shipping traffic use than LNG carriers. ( Port Alma has a natural 20 Km salt flat buffer zone all around it and fuel terminals have existed there for probably 70 or 80 years.)
The next step for Bundaberg will probably be for the Govt to create another "Board" to start taking land by force to be able to build their facilities for exports through their the newly acquired Port Facilities.
They will probably tell the people of Bundaberg that they are doing them a favour and creating jobs but they neglect to tell the people that they are not allowed to be involved or consulted as to their actions and what you will get is what they give you. There is no avenue of objection or appeal, not even through the Courts.
They will not tell the people that when they declare an area as a State Development area, they freeze all private freehold land around the perimeter of their SDA and allow nothing to happen there that they do not like. there is no avenue of appeal when this happens.
They will not tell you that once they take over, Your Council will have no input anymore and they will be totally excluded from everything that they do.
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The Council cannot have any input as to what is developed and has no input into any aspect of the activities of these "Boards"
It has been stated in the press numerous times in Gladstone by Ministers and Senior Govt officials that the Govt has no obligation to advise or consult the Public or councils on any development that they are involved in.
Peter Neilsen,
22 Gladstone Street
Mt Larcom, Qld., 4695