Gympie Region

Deputy Mayor Councillor Brett Olds rejected that, saying councillors can still raise matters through standing orders.

And Gympie Regional Council has defended its redrafted local laws, the first review in more than a decade.

The changes include the first dedicated local law for Kaibong Aerodrome in its 60-year history.

A 14-week consultation drew 191 submissions, some raising concerns about over-regulation.

The forest resource security has been our main theme.

How can we grow more trees, get more trees in the ground, and provide that evidence-based material? The plantation is predominantly in the Beerburrum, across Gympie region to the Fraser Coast region, and there's a concentrated plantation there, but we also have native forest in our region as well.

So what we did was we developed some strategic focus, and there's a range of six priorities that we've been working on.

And from that, we've developed technical reports that have looked at the opportunities and the barriers for the forestry and wood product sector, and recommendations that can be provided to the federal government, uh, for policy change.

It is fired at a particular temperature, and then what happens is it produces like a-- If you think of the old, um, when you have a barbecue and you get charcoal.

So charcoal is a enhancer for soil, and so it's used widely for horticulture.

That's a product that we see great potential, particularly around the Gympie region.

There's an economic alliance set up at the moment to do some further work on that type of industry.