Redland City

Meanwhile, in Redlands, a go-ahead part of South East Queensland that desperately needs leadership, the mayor has been unwell, has been elected for almost three years, and she has officially resigned this morning.

Now, if she'd held on after all this ill health that she's had, she's been refused leave on a couple of occasions now, so it kind of was brought to a head.

there's now going to have to be a by-election for the Redlands.

If she'd held on for another couple of months till the end of March, it would have been within 12 months of the gazetted next council election, which is March of 28.

Then the local council laws, the ones elected by the people to create the council, could have actually chosen one of their own to step up.

And yes, there has been a pretty relentless campaign by a number of people.

There have been leaks, apparently, from the council.

But the problem for ratepayers in Redlands, there hasn't been the leadership.

ABC News reported that police are preparing a report for the coroner as investigations into the incident continue.

Redland City Council has confirmed that there's no vacancy in the mayoral position despite having rejected a leave application for Mayor Joss Mitchell during last week's general meeting.

According to reporting from the Redland Bayside News, the decision came after the Chief Executive confirmed no formal request for unpaid leave had been received for the period spanning late July to late October.

Deputy Mayor Julie Talty will continue to serve as Acting Mayor.

Brisbane City Council has withdrawn destruction orders for two dogs involved in an attack on a runner at Chermside's 7th Brigade Park on October the 16th.

So we can go into debt.

Meanwhile, in Redlands, I want to give a bouquet to the Redland City Council.

They have actually done the right thing here, regardless of how difficult it is for those who are amongst our heroes in society.

With Redlands hospital nurses could be soon forced to pay $2,000 a year just to park at work.

Not good, but you can't blame Redland City Council.

They're putting no stopping restrictions along Wellington Street starting from next month.

There's been a lot of safety assessments made in that general area because roadside parking near the Redland Hospital is a hazard.

And if an arrangement can be made that can bring the staff in to parking where they should be parked in that multi-deck car park, then the problem is solved for everyone.

We're sp- I spoke with Kristina Zdenek about that, the campaign to save Woogaroo Forest.

And then I also spoke to Debbie Poynting, who is from the Redlands Koala Action Group, about a campaign that's been going for a while about Ormiston College, which is a private school out there in Redlands near Cleveland, Wellington Point, um, that is currently clearing koala habitat to expand their school campus, and there's been a big community campaign against that, and still ongoing.

And then the last interview of the show, we'll hear from Claire Gronau from Lock The Gate, who have... is gonna fill us in on the state government and some of the very bad bills they have been putting in.

The Critical Minerals Bill is the one that already passed, but there is further bills about, um, restricting the abilities of organiza- environment organizations, for example, or other stakeholders, um, to complain about proposed mining developments, which is very much in the style of these Liberal governments.

And so before we demolish it all, we should do something about it, and we should take advantage of it.

Get out there and check out these beautiful natural places, uh, that are in our surrounds.

Now, I've got a couple more interviews on the show about local environment issues, and we'll go to the next one, which I did with Debbie Pointing, who is from Redlands Koala Action Group, um, about...

We spoke mostly about the campaign going on there at Ormiston College.