Thanks for support on Super Boss Day
On behalf of Mount Isa City Council, I wish to take the opportunity to thank the North West Star for your support of Mount Isa Wellness Warriors initiative to raise funds for HeartKids through Super Boss Day funding research into childhood congenital heart disease.
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The HeartKids initiative is an an incredibly important cause. HeartKids Australia is a charity focused on improving the lives and futures of those affected by childhood heart disease by providing high quality caring support, information and advocacy and give hope by driving world class research.
The Mount Isa Wellness Warriors who are one of 199 Super Boss teams and individuals have raised $1385.05 which is a significant sum boosting the current HeartKids Australian wide total of $148, 440.
Michael Kitzelmann
Mount Isa City Council CEO
An incompetent Labor to blame for child safety crisis, not ice
Labor's do-nothing Premier is trying to blame the drug ice for the crisis in child safety created by her own incompetent Minister.
For 16 of the last 19 years Labor has been in charge of protecting our most vulnerable children.
In that 16 years, we have seen crisis after crisis under successive Labor Governments.
When the LNP was in office we turned the system around, committed $406 million towards early intervention and family intervention services and boosted frontline child safety officers by 77 in 2014.
We left Labor with a system that was achieving its best results ever.
Sadly with Labor now having been in power for 2½ years all that positive momentum and reform is gone.
Despite being warned of a looming child safety crisis back in October 2015, the Minister allocated only 21 new child safety officers in the 2015/16 budget and cut that to 17 the following year.
This year's budget is too little too late for a child protection system in meltdown.
Since mid-2016, the embattled Minister has been scrambling to cover up the crisis that has unfolded under her watch.
In classic Labor form, a veil of secrecy has descended over child safety in a bid to shield its hopeless Minister.
Ros Bates
LNP Shadow Minister for Child Safety
Not happy about the editor
They seek him here
They seek him there
They seek the phantom Journo everywhere
He watches sport
He watches art
He snaps an average picture anywhere.
But only in the North West Star
And every article
Bears his name
He knows not modesty
He knows not shame
In naming him I will not tarry
The jumped up
Pompous Derek Barry.
George Harley
Mount Isa
Editor’s note: I guess it makes a change from slagging off the Katters
Correction
In the obituary for Vic Stampton (North West Star, June 15), the author attributed the site of Vic’s assault to the Buffs Club. This was incorrect – it was the old Services Club.
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