CAROLYNs PINE RIVERS NEWS Dec2009
State Member for Pine Rivers
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone. Wishing you and your family a safe and joyous festive season.
Dayboro State School
It is great to see progress being made on the building of the new hall and resource centre at Dayboro State School. The building is looking excellent, and I look forward to the opening in the first half of next year. I would also like to thank both the School and the Parents and Citizens Association at Dayboro State School for all their collaborative work on the project.
Dayboro show receives grant
It is my great pleasure to announce that Dayboro Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Society has received $9,728 from the State Government to help support next year’s show.
Showgrounds across Brisbane received a welcome funding injection totalling over $292,000 in grants.
As well as hosting major community festivals and exhibitions, showgrounds around the State, like Dayboro’s often double as key sporting and recreation precincts, with a wide variety of organisations using them regularly.
For this reason, the funding can go towards keeping these community assets maintained and functional, as well as supporting the regional show program.
Queensland Parliament passes tough new anti-smoking laws
Queensland Parliament passed tough new laws to stop people from smoking in cars carrying children.
The legislation is the latest Government crackdown in a long line of anti-smoking reforms.
Queensland is the leading nation with the toughest anti-smoking laws in the country including smoking bans for indoor and outdoor public places, as well as tough restrictions on retail advertising, display and promotion of tobacco products.
The latest ban was passed, as part of a raft of measures contained in the Health and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2009 in Queensland Parliament.
It is anticipated the new laws will start from January 2010 and apply on all public roads.
These laws are about reducing the exposure children have to tobacco smoke.
In Queensland alone there are 276,000 smokers with children under 16 years of age in the household.
The level of tobacco smoke inside a vehicle is very high, and we know young children involuntarily exposed to tobacco smoke in confined environments have significantly increased health risks, including bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, ear infections and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
We are setting a community standard with these laws of not smoking around children and sending a vital message about the impact of exposure to tobacco smoke on children.
The human and financial costs of smoking in Queensland remained unacceptably high, and it was time for definitive action to reduce this trend.
Sadly almost 3,400 Queenslanders die each year as a result of smoking.
Smoking-related hospital admissions continue to place a huge burden on the State’s pubic finances, costing our health system $217 million annually.
We know smoking is responsible for approximately 80 per cent of all lung cancer deaths and 20 per cent of all cancer deaths.
It is obvious from these figures that we need to take definitive action to reverse these trends.
That is why the Queensland Government is further strengthening the State’s tough anti-smoking regime to help meet our Q2 target of cutting rates of smoking in Queensland by a third.
The legislation also has the support of the Heart Foundation and the Cancer Council Queensland.
It is great to see progress being made on the building of the new hall and resource centre at Dayboro State School. The building is looking excellent, and I look forward to the opening in the first half of next year. I would also like to thank both the School and the Parents and Citizens Association at Dayboro State School for all their collaborative work on the project.
Dayboro show receives grant
It is my great pleasure to announce that Dayboro Agricultural, Horticultural and Industrial Society has received $9,728 from the State Government to help support next year’s show.
Showgrounds across Brisbane received a welcome funding injection totalling over $292,000 in grants.
As well as hosting major community festivals and exhibitions, showgrounds around the State, like Dayboro’s often double as key sporting and recreation precincts, with a wide variety of organisations using them regularly.
For this reason, the funding can go towards keeping these community assets maintained and functional, as well as supporting the regional show program.
Queensland Parliament passes tough new anti-smoking laws
Queensland Parliament passed tough new laws to stop people from smoking in cars carrying children.
The legislation is the latest Government crackdown in a long line of anti-smoking reforms.
Queensland is the leading nation with the toughest anti-smoking laws in the country including smoking bans for indoor and outdoor public places, as well as tough restrictions on retail advertising, display and promotion of tobacco products.
The latest ban was passed, as part of a raft of measures contained in the Health and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2009 in Queensland Parliament.
It is anticipated the new laws will start from January 2010 and apply on all public roads.
These laws are about reducing the exposure children have to tobacco smoke.
In Queensland alone there are 276,000 smokers with children under 16 years of age in the household.
The level of tobacco smoke inside a vehicle is very high, and we know young children involuntarily exposed to tobacco smoke in confined environments have significantly increased health risks, including bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, ear infections and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
We are setting a community standard with these laws of not smoking around children and sending a vital message about the impact of exposure to tobacco smoke on children.
The human and financial costs of smoking in Queensland remained unacceptably high, and it was time for definitive action to reduce this trend.
Sadly almost 3,400 Queenslanders die each year as a result of smoking.
Smoking-related hospital admissions continue to place a huge burden on the State’s pubic finances, costing our health system $217 million annually.
We know smoking is responsible for approximately 80 per cent of all lung cancer deaths and 20 per cent of all cancer deaths.
It is obvious from these figures that we need to take definitive action to reverse these trends.
That is why the Queensland Government is further strengthening the State’s tough anti-smoking regime to help meet our Q2 target of cutting rates of smoking in Queensland by a third.
The legislation also has the support of the Heart Foundation and the Cancer Council Queensland.
See you next year
Carolyn
