Parliament of Queensland

Um, he is the chair of the, the South East Queensland mayors, as you know.

Um, but of course, it's a state government statute, so it's the Queensland Time Act that governs us and only the, uh, Queensland Parliament.

And the other interesting fact is that Queensland only has a single house, so we're, we're a unicameral state, which means there's not the same checks and balances you have in other states.

So, uh, it is possible if we had two houses of government, um, there would be some movement in that space.

It'll be politically difficult.

You'd have to get colleagues in the Queensland Parliament to agree to chip a bit of Queensland off.

Interesting debate, Robbie, and I don't mind having it.

We will keep talking about it.

We will keep talking about it because we need a strong North Australia producing a lot of wealth for us.

Good to talk to you.

Robbie Catter, head of the Catters Australia Party and the Queensland Parliament member for Trago.

Okay.

So he's married Afloat and at that point, He'd been already elected to Queensland Parliament.

So he takes his seat in Parliament in 1947 and he's in that seat for 40 years.

Wow.

He's a bit of a loner from the bush at first in parliament.

Right.

Queensland Parliament is not a kind place in the 50s and 60s and he really sticks out.

He's the butt of quite a few jokes.

I couldn't agree more.

Here's the quote that he said in a 2022 Queensland Parliament speech.

And honest budget would show that.

Instead, Queenslanders are left with a budget paper stamped with commercial incompetence over that section.

Anthropic has signed its first data center lease in Australia, locking Claude into a proposed thirty-two billion Australian dollar campus on cattle country west of Brisbane.

Premier David Crisafulli announced the deal in Queensland Parliament on Wednesday.

The site is Xera DC's Western Downs Digital Park, a seven hundred and twenty-five point five hectare feedlot block at Kogan, about thirty-seven kilometers northwest of Dalby and roughly two hundred and fifty kilometers from Brisbane.

Following up on Anthropic's Australia compute lease, Jason Cartwright at TechAU puts numbers on the scale.

What happens now is that next detailed planning and design phase of the Flatwater course, that will now move forward.

The other thing that the Queensland Parliament have spoken about You know, a lot of games venues are around regional Queensland.

It's also about building infrastructure legacy where that Rockhampton rowing facilities, what will we see there with updated facilities and also accommodation as well.

Obviously, we need to build an athletes village, which will be built here in Rockhampton.

They're having a great time attending high-quality events, displaying their daily consumption of food and beverages that so many everyday people cannot afford.

You see, to represent a community sitting inside the Brisbane City Council Chamber, the Parliament of Queensland or in Canberra, elected members inherit duty.

It's responsibility.

It's serious stewardship.

For tougher laws? Yeah.

So it's the same way as the Queensland Parliament.

They only have a lower house.

So, uh, we have two houses.