No commentary from me today. I have other things on and can’t watch.
Cr Collier moves a motion to reallocate all funding for the Living in Brisbane newsletter to the Pathways out of Homelessness program for the remainder of the year. Voted down of course.
How much does LiB actually cost anyway? Surely it couldn’t be enough to make much of a difference?
Though I suppose the counter argument would be that even getting just one or two people into secure housing is worth more than an advertising campaign.
She claimed its budget is four times the homelessness program budget, but not sure the dollar figure. It was a stunt motion really and she kind of poisoned it by claiming it’s marketing for the mayor and LNP councillors. Maybe there’s some bias there but whenever I’ve looked at it, it’s mostly just generic what’s on and what happened kind of content.
It was in response to Cr Howard’s stunt motion again calling on the state govt to use Pinkenba for crisis accomodation. And to round it off there was another stunt motion from Cr Cassidy calling on BCC to support the federal govt’s Housing Australia Future Fund.
Yeah the “LiB is LNP propaganda” line is one Labor has used for a long time. I think it’s mostly without merit, but the fact that it always has big friendly pictures of the Lord Mayor on the cover, and often inside, does lens it some credence.
I like the term “stunt motion”. It’s a really useful way to describe a lot of the motions they make. I’ll definitely be using that in the future.
Cr Johnston is being especially fiery today, butting heads with the Chair multiple times. She was formally reprimanded multiple times and in turn she dissented against his rulings.
“Mr Chairman, you are a grub and I dissent in your ruling”.
LNP members calling for her to be removed from the meeting but so far the Chair has resisted.
Cr Massey:
It’s clear the St Lucia to West End bridge is going to disappear
Council says ‘Yeah we want to do it, but now we need the other levels’
Please don’t listen when they say our promise was only $550 million. They talked about five bridges, the delivery should be five bridges.
