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  1. #31

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    Quote Originally Posted by Gazza View Post
    How $$much$$ do Hospitals make us Andy ??
    Why have a "minister at all" for health. ??
    Ummm saving lives, rehabilitating the injured, contributing billions to the economy in life years and prodcutive years saved.......

  2. #32

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    Quote Originally Posted by charleville View Post
    Dunno. Terry was in my class at primary school. Yup - he did not seemed destined to be anything other than the welder that he became for a while but I recall that even in primary school, he was heavily influenced by family affiliations with the Labor Party.


    That he held me back from escaping a thumping by someone in about grade 8 at lunch time tells me that he was probably always well qualified to be what an ABC announcer once described him to me as being - ie a (politcal) headkicker.


    Terry was good for the electorate though - very hard working for the electorate - and very good for community activities like girls' netball where I know that he was very active. That is where a lot of politicians fail but where the likes of Rudd and Mackenroth and Bob Katter and Iron Bar Tuckey survive and thrive. Viz the harder they work, the luckier they get when the electoral tide goes out.


    As you will recall, Greg, this electorate was well served with Labor stars including Clem who drove a very active organically grown, community progress theme producing gems like what we now know as the Clem Jones Centre encompassing many sports facilities within the one block of land.


    I reckon that the new member could do little worse than to explore how the State Government might help in updating those facilities. I am not sure that they have improved much over the years since Clem, apart from the pokie funded expansions of the football club.


    Of course, another way that both Mark, and the new man in my electorate, could make a valuable name for themselves, is to get themselves on a state government committee to explore liquor licensing laws in this state and remove the restrictions of supermarkets being able to sell me a bottle of plonk whilst I am shopping for groceries.


    I have just been watching a bit of Saturday afternoon TV and have seen the TV advertisements for various forms of gambling on mainstream media. If anything was soft porn, those adverts are in relation to how they make online gambling seem like a bit of innocent fun. I cannot understand how governments can allow that soft brainwashing of children to happen on free-to-air TV and yet ban the sale of a bottle of plonk in a supermarket as happens in the other states.



    (Footnote for the youngsters under sixty in this forum, until 1963, Queensland primary schools included grade 8.)
    good old Clem..I can remember when Jones Road was dirt..Clem got all the local roads surfaced. He introduced the sewerage system..bloody great trenches through our yard.

    I thought you lived at the bayside Bruce.

  3. #33

    Red face Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    Ahhh , the old choko vine & outside dunnies ...memories
    The "sawdust guy" (NO greenies themadays) emptied the tin , swapped it with ya craptin ,to the truck and on to the next house !!

    ahh, it's a push-button world nowadays

    GEEZ "poor" MARK...left holding the CAN-doo-doo

  4. #34

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    Quote Originally Posted by PinHead View Post
    I thought you lived at the bayside Bruce.


    Nope. If you lived near Terry Mackenroth, you would have seen my Mum's house every day when you walked to Carina primary school.


    However, demonstrating little imagination, after moving all over the place in married life, living in arduous places like Hervey Bay for a few years, I ended up building a house only about a mile and a half from my late Mum's home. No imagination at all! 'Tis close enough to everything that I want to be close to though, including the Manly ramp.


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  5. #35

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    Quote Originally Posted by PinHead View Post
    good old Clem..I can remember when Jones Road was dirt..Clem got all the local roads surfaced. He introduced the sewerage system..bloody great trenches through our yard.

    I had forgotten the road surfacing. You are quite right.

    Of course, he is probably most kindly remembered for getting Brisbane sewered. I could not believe it when we moved from the fully sewered Charleville to Brisbane to endure those disgusting dunnies in the back yard.

    He was also remembered as having done away with Brissies' trams for which there was much sentimental attachment. However, I am not so sure that he did not do the right thing by the city there. Sure, trams move a lot of people but they are a damn nuisance in traffic and as much as Melbourne likes them, they are a pain to drive behind in the suburbs with strip shops. Not so bad in places where they are wide grassy traffic islands along which they can run, like at Victoria Parade at East Melbourne/Collingwood or on the long bushy parts of the St Kilda-CBD run but anywhere else, they are a pain. I think that our dedicated busway system is a far smarter solution to rapid mass transport. It is a pity that tunneling technology was not as advanced in Clem's time as it is now.

    I am quite amazed that we have been able to build the massive tunnels that we have. As I understand, Brissy is build on some pretty hard rock (Brisbane Tuft????) and that those big machines can move it as fast as they can is pretty impressive. Clem would have approved of the tunnels, I am sure.



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  6. #36

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    Quote Originally Posted by Gazza View Post
    The "sawdust guy" (NO greenies themadays) emptied the tin , swapped it with ya craptin ,to the truck and on to the next house !!


    Yup! Those guys at Hunter Bros earned the bottle or two that most people left out for them at Christmas.


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  7. #37

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    As the member for Cleveland I am happy to stay connected with AUSFISH members about rec fishing issues

  8. #38

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    When are we going to see a fishing report Mark?

  9. #39

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    I feel a little bit cheated, was anyone else at the Tinnie & Tackle Show 1 day before the election listening to Campbell up on the Fishing Expo Stage standing side by side with MP Mark?

  10. #40

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy Toes View Post
    When are we going to see a fishing report Mark?
    I guess once the new Fisheries minister has time to get set. He has much to get his mind around.
    mark

  11. #41

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    So Mark, what are the chances of some of the recommendations, things like 1 line in some greens zones etc, getting through now that you're not in the drivers seat?

  12. #42

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    Ill take you crabbing Mark.... the Cando way.... make a good publicity video to show how serious you are good job mate youll do a good job in my local area

  13. #43

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    I have to say, Im disappointed that Mark didnt get the fishery portfolio, and yes somehow I feel abit cheated too. He is still the member for Cleveland and is a fair younger than alot of us. Maybe a term or 2 looking on will be good for him, and I wish him the best in the future.
    I dont care which side of politics you come from, it takes alot of sincerity and shows the character of the man to come on here and engage us on a level that has never been done before by anyone in politics.
    I hope to that he hangs around and read more of what is written on these type of forum and get an appreciation of what is cooking inside a rec.fisho head
    Humility is not a weather condition.

  14. #44

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    So it seems Fisheries is not so important as Agriculture, but still I do hope the new Fisheries minister is wise enough to surround himself with people who are informed and useful and to that end you are there with valuable input Mark.

    I do agree with others sentiment that fishing has progressed way beyond just a primary producing role and should be seen more in the valuable tourism sector it belongs.

    Aside from the politics it would be good Mark if you hang about and enjoy the forum and even put on a fishing report or two from fun times out with the family.

    Hopefully your visits will now, not so much be welcomed with a flaming torch.
    Cheers

    Trev

  15. #45

    Re: Just the Member for Cleveland who fishes

    Hi Mark,

    Sorry to hear you were not given the gig.

    Can you advise when we will be able to start fishing in the green Zones and can you also find out if we are going to be able to crab and cast net in the green zones as well.

    Cheers,

    Brian

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