Aint got time for Jibba Jabba!

Lawrence no doubt bounded out of his Borg van like he was Mr T, ready to show those people at the Mater’s Children Hospital he’s got no time for da jibba jabba! But before his press conference could even start he was flanked by those annoying protesters from the Public Sector and there non stop claims that he was going to cut their jobs and put them at risk. The Borg knew he needed help, he looked around, noone here could make those nasty protesters go away so he looked deep inside and channeled the voices of the past. Unfortunately for The Borg it was Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen who picked up

The Borg must have said something along the lines of “Sir Joh, it’s the final days of my third run for this job and well, if I can just stay quiet long enough I maybe able to prevent any of my normal gaffes leading to embarrassing the party or myself, but these protesters Joh, the’re everywhere”.

Sir Joh – “Borgie b b b borgie, D d d don’t you worry about that, just baffle them with screeming galahs”

The Borg – “Yes of course, thank you Sir Joh”.

So The Borg put his plan into action, when asked how the private sector would make any money from his proposed $1.7billion plan for a public-private partnership to help upgrade Brisbane's two existing children's hospitals.

He said: "There's a range of things that you can amortise over a period of time by actually having the private sector proponent, there's a range of ways. Now we're not excluding it.

"What we've said is the model that we've put up has been done in conjunction in discussions with people who've been involved, and constructing hospitals in partnership with government, and we have actually put up a model which gives us a significant saving, indeed, in excess of $300million, we think we might even be able to go somewhat better than that."

Yep, that’s clear as mud.

He also said that a Springborg government in Queensland would not be following the example of the West Australian Government, the only other conservative administration in Australia, which yesterday announced it would be spending $48 million to offer redundancies to 500 public servants.

But Springborg maintains that he can achieve a 3 per cent cut in the public service -- which is exactly the same target as Western Australia -- purely by natural attritition, rather than having to follow the West Australian example and pay public servants to leave.
But Springborg could not say how many public servants needed to depart by natural attrition to help achieve the 3 per cent cut.

"It's very difficult to be able to predict how many people may or may not do that."

Hmmm people they are difficult.

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Barron River "Meet the Candidates"

The Yorkeys Knob Residents Association will be holding a "Meet the Candidates" forum on Tuesday 17 March commencing at 7.30pm, at the Wattle Street Community Centre.

Current member Steve Wettenhall (Labor), Wendy Richardson (LNP Candidate) Sarah Isaacs(Greens Candidate) have all indicated that they will be attending.

The candidates will be given 15 minutes to speak which will be followed by 20 minutes of question time from the audience.

Refreshments will be served at the conclusion.

Come along and help me ask some hard questions.

For your information, for the convenience of residents, the Electoral Commission have set up polling booths at James Cook University, which means you are able to vote prior to the election from now up until Friday 20 March. The booths are open from 9am - 5pm and are located in the foyer of building A1, which is to the left of the "rock" which you will see when you drive into the campus.