Prepare now for emergencies
For many of us it’s unthinkable. Until it happens, and then it’s too late.
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We all face emergencies: as large as a bushfire or as personal as a medical crisis. They can all be devastating, as so many people found out last year in the aftermath of severe Cyclone Debbie.
In Emergency Preparedness Week (September 17-24), Red Cross is asking you to take one easy action to make your next emergency less stressful.
These are simple and practical steps you can take to protect the people you love, your own wellbeing and the things you value most.
Easy things to help you prepare include:
- think about being in an emergency situation and how you might react. This will help you stay calmer and respond better when an emergency happens.
- find out where to get important disaster information, like your local radio emergency broadcaster. This means you’re better informed when an emergency happens.
- get to know your neighbours. They’re the people who might support you and look out for you when an emergency happens.
For more easy things to do, get your Red Cross RediPlan at www.redcross.org.au/prepare
Leisa Bourne
Director, Red Cross, Queensland
We loved the Fringe Festival
Congratulations to Bec Dent and all the Entertainment Centre Staff and Volunteers for the wonderful job they did in presenting the inaugural Isa Outback Fringe Festival over this last weekend.
Including comedy, circus, and opera it was a showpiece for the quality and variety of events regularly presented in the Entertainment Centre and other Isa venues each year.
Also, thanks to all the Sponsors who ensured that it would happen.
The culmination of all this hard work, enthusiasm and support was a sea of smiling faces.
If this event becomes an annual fixture in the Mount Isa calendar,and we hope it will, it is easy to see that it could also become a must-see experience for locals and visitors alike.
We loved it and are already looking forward to next year’s Fringe Festival.
Richard & Lorraine Lane
Mount Isa
editor’s note: Hear, hear. Congrats Bec and the team on a wonderful event
Suburban detention centres
Labor’s secret plan for suburban detention centres for young offenders has finally been revealed.
Annastacia Palaszczuk and Labor have failed to be up-front with the people of Queensland and there has been zero consultation on their flawed approach.
The only reason this half-baked proposal is being implemented is because of Labor’s knee-jerk response to transferring 17 year olds from prisons to youth detention centres, without any plan on how to do it.
If Labor thought building suburban detention houses was a good idea, they would have been doing a roadshow around the state.
The LNP thinks it is an appalling proposal for three key reasons.
First, it puts the safety of the community at risk. These offenders have been charged with a crime and are awaiting a court hearing. They have not been released on bail so the safest place for them and the community is in detention. At a cost of $16.9 million for 60 offenders, the suburban detention centres are also a significant investment by taxpayers and a complete waste of money.
And finally, we don’t think it benefits the offender in terms of their rehabilitation and any chance of getting their life back on track.
Ian Walker MP,
Shadow Attorney-General
Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
