Dr Mr Dickson, The Gold Coast's business community is hurting. The steps Australia has taken to protect against the spread of the COVID-19 virus is unfortunately damaging business and the economic health of the region. Given that the council is in caretaker mode in the lead-up to the local government elections, we believe it is appropriate to communicate with you rather than to elected officials. Yesterday, the Brisbane City Council took the brave step of waiving all small busines...

The Palaszczuk Government will create a new $500 million loan facility, interest free for the first 12 months, to support businesses to keep Queenslanders in work and extend the coronavirus payroll tax deferral to all businesses across the state.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the rapidly evolving impacts of the pandemic demanded a rapidly evolving response from Government.
"We know just how tough Queensland families and businesses are doing it in the face of this pandemic,...

While Australia and the Gold Coast has been relatively protected from the spread of Coronavirus (COVID 2019)  so far many businesses have already been disrupted.
  Risk Management Tips Steps that will help you to avoid infection: Practice good personal hygiene. Avoid contact with anyone with or suspected of having Coronavirus. Boost your immune system by eating well, exercising, having enough sleep, and keeping your stress levels under control. Cancel or dela...

Greetings all as the first quarter of 2020 is rapidly coming to a close.  The big story on everyone's lips is the world-wide health alert over the brand-new epidemic called coronavirus.  Not only ruining the reputation of a great beer, it is hard to gauge at this point in time how much damage this virus will do to the well-being of Australia and the world's population and importantly how much damage it will do to the economy of Australia.

Already on the Gold  Co...

Happy New Year and welcome to 2020!  I hope you had a terrific break over Christmas and enjoyed time out with family and friends.  State Parliament recommences this week and it will be an interesting time until the important Queensland State election which will be held on Saturday 31st October 2020.

By-Election Currumbin
In the meantime, a by-election for the seat of Currumbin will be held most likely in March following the resignation for health reasons of the current memb...

Christmas Eve Holiday

Local small businesses will feel the brunt of this new Christmas Eve Public Holiday as legislated last week by the Palaszczuk Labor Government. Some will have no choice but to close as casual rates of employment will be unaffordable adding to Queensland's unemployment woes.  This is yet another example of unions running this Palaszczuk Labor Government and I feel for businesses who will be forced to close and those staffers denied the opportunity of empl...