Whether we are talking to the young family from Ipswich who relies on its local public school, the single mother in Townsville who gets assistance from workers in disability services or the older Queenslander in Pine Rivers who gets care at their local hospital, we hear their stories and why they care about building a better Queensland. We know majority of Queenslanders believe we should all have equal access to services – that no matter where we live or how much we earn we should all be able to access things like health, safety and education.
We’ve now heard the government’s plan for Queenslanders - to privatise services and dress this up as ‘contestability’.
We know that Queenslanders want more than a position to oppose privatisation, they want communities to come together to change the places we live for the better. That’s where you come in, it’s where so many of you have already been involved by participating in this movement and talking about the Queensland we all deserve to your friends and family. At the end of the day, it’s up to you to you have your say to shape our future campaigns around your vision for a better Queensland by completing this small survey.
While the government is talking about its Queensland Plan, it is unveiling its privatisation plan that aims to avoid all accountability by handing our services over to the cheapest provider, not the best provider. We know Queensland can do better than this, we know Queenslanders believe we can do better and we know this is why the Working for Queenslanders movement continues to grow.
You can also tell the government about the Queensland you want to build at http://queenslandplan.qld.gov.au/get-involved/.
Our movement has seen thousands of signatures gathered, forums attended and conversations continuing with family, friends and communities about this important issue. That’s because this is a movement that is about more than the day to day politics here in Queensland, it’s your movement that is ready to build the Queensland we all deserve, and that starts with you today in creating this vision and continuing to act.
Be part of it for the Queensland we all deserve.
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Facebook TwitterWell all I can say is that public assets are there are all for the public and need to be subsidised so that all can share in the asset and service
Private enterprise on the other hand is about greed for investors and should live or die on the management plan
Simple answer—- subsidise public assets and forget the rest and there will be more money to expand the public assets
The number of parents that drink, gamble and smoke the children,s food and education money is a blight on parenthood
We can no longer afford the people who believe that Australians owe them a living and spend every day working out ways of getting extra welfare without being accountable for it or working for it.
Plastic money will equal real food for the children
1. What happens when there is no power and the electronic banking system is down eg in the event of flooding, cyclonic disasters or fires that Australia seems prone to. How do people eat without ready access to cash?
2. Why does the government insist on controlling every decision we make in this life. YES, the rent should be paid and the electricity bills and the essential needs for children, but no-one wants to feel trapped like a rat in a cage. This breeds learned helplessness, psychological disorders and more anger. It also encourages more crime, because if people are denied something they feel they need, they will break in and take it.
3. The politicians who make these laws are so far removed from the reality of the people they are trying to help, they no longer make informed decisions. They make decisions based on the very narrow viewpoint of the influential and powerful. What about the little people
4. Every day the government are taking away freedom of choice. Why can’t we be encouraged to take responsibility for ourselves rather than have the government take our responsibilities away with our choices.
5. Very soon we will have nothing worth living for.
Come on Queensland… Join in and have a say before the government take any more fundamental freedoms away from us.
Queenslanders want a plan for to build a better Queensland, and are calling on you to listen to the community and reject any plans for privatisation. We want you to produce a real plan for quality services so Queenslanders can access services no matter where they live or how much they earn
Queensland needs to open a completely new chapter in our political history and push for a democratically elected upper house.
I think I’ll email the treasurer Mr Nicholls whose office is just up the road, to see if he could wheel one down the road for me.
Aging sucks and I’m not sure how we’re s’posed to live alone with no support.
Thank god for friends.