Senator Gerard Rennick Nov 20 in Maleny | Christmas Date claimers | October in review

Published: Wed, 11/08/23

THE MALENY NETWORK

October Review:

October Saw Us Have Our:

1. CPR Training: Please contact Allen Training direct if you were wanting a certificate and have not received it yet. Also Cath has shared the manual with us. If you were part of the training and would like an electronic copy please request by replying to this email.

2. Radio Check: Please contact Al to bring him up to speed with your involvement. Ask if you want help in setting up or need any assistance at all in this area.

Al’s number and email is always at the bottom of each newsletter. Please, if EVERYONE can you contact him and let him know your radio “handle” and your location so he can create the sub communities and advise of the next test date.

3. Jam Making: Thanks to Brenda and Raewyn for organising this. We had such a lovely afternoon of having fun and learning. We are looking at doing a simliar afternoon with preserving (possibly apples)

4. Sound of Freedom Movie: Was great to see our community come together to see this movie and raise awareness of what is happening to our children. We raised approx $500 and had several new locals join our group as a result - Welcome!

5. Lesley Gillett - Resilience Program Presentation: See summary from Lesley below. We will be using this ‘100 point’ list and modifying it for our purposes, as well using it to identify future speakers and areas of weakness within our group.

Please send any feedback or ideas to Elaine on 0409 596 648 or email elaine.richardson@protonmail.com.

Thanks to Raewyn and Elaine who will be revamping this list for us all.

6. Wellness Group: A few items for the wellness group were purchased thanks to some keen market place observers as well as a terrific donation of bandages. Thank you so much!

Upcoming Meetings and Events:

1. The Maleny Network Guest Speaker - Senator Gerard Rennick - Monday 20th November at 5.30pm.

Our last guest speaker for the year, by popular request, will be Senator Gerard Rennick - Less than 2 weeks away!

The venue will depend on bookings so please book ASAP so we can arrange suitable venue. We anticipate the verandah room may not be big enough. It will be no charge.

Please Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1145410

2. Future Speaker - Monica Smit?

Due to many requests we have reached out to Monica Smit to include Maleny in her book launch tour. If you are keen please go onto her website https://www.monicasmit.com/tour/ and also request her to come to Maleny – the squeaky wheel gets the oil! Request Monday nights.

3. Infant and Pre-schooler Parents.

Calling for anyone with infants or preschool children who may be interested in:

1. Creating a home care cooperative or support a “baby sitting” arrangement to enable parents to not compromise their children’s health or pay exuberant fees because of choices required by the current government run system of daycare.

If interested please contact Cheryl on 0457 460 048.

2. Donating some things that may be useful for this enterprise.

3. Fighting back against the discrimination being imposed on parents who do not want to have their children unnecessarily injected.

4. Council Candidates.

We have been contacted to see if anyone in our group is personally interested, or knows someone, who might be suitable to run for Division 5 Sunshine Coast Councilor.

You would be screened using a process that would help identify if you hold similar values and beliefs to many of the issues we are all facing.

If you know someone interested please contact Brian: 5445 7467.

5. Lesley Gillett's report following her presentation.

“Monday evening’s (October 23rd’s) launch of The Local Resilience Project was rewarding and gratifying.

Thank you to all the members of The Maleny Network who attended, bringing your warmth and enthusiasm and support for the project. It was a world first. Hopefully there will be many more to come.

Most members who attended had completed the ‘Checklist’ and this created a dynamic and rewarding opportunity to discuss our ‘Scores’, our level of satisfaction with these scores, the areas of life we scored least well in, and how to improve our resilience” - Lesley.

6. Christmas Party Time - Monday 4th December - Starting at 1.30pm.

It’s time to celebrate! Our Christmas party details are:

Date: Monday December 4th

Location: McCarthy Lake House, 69 McCarthy Rd, Maleny (opposite Maleny Dairies).

Time: 1.30pm (Come for a swim while the sun is up - Children welcome).

5.00pm - Pot Luck dinner (this means you bring something to share for the evening meal eg. nibbles, salads, meats, dessert etc). We will start the BBQ @5.00pm if you want to cook any meat you bring along.

Note: BYO Bathers, towels, sunblock (if you use it), chair, drinks. Alcohol welcome however NO alcohol or glass in the swimming pool area.

Parents must be responsible for their children at all times

Please RSVP by return email so we get an idea of numbers:-)

Please bring a small “gift” (non-perishable) for hampers, so we can bless a few less fortunate families at Christmas time.

7. Date Claimer 2024 Regular Fortnightly Meetings -

The regular Maleny Network meetings will resume on Monday 12th February at 6.00pm, at the Verandah Room.

In This Edition:

In The News - The No Vote.
Housing Crisis On The Sunshine Coast.

1. In The News - The No Vote Won…But:

The No vote had a resounding success but that won’t stop the activists from pushing ahead with their agenda.

Victorian indigenous body wants ‘cultural police’ to trample your property rights!

https://cairnsnews.org/2023/11/01/victorian-indigenous-body-wants-cultural-police-to-trample-your-property-rights/

2. Housing Crisis On The Sunshine Coast:

An Update from Helen Andrews re: Housing Crisis on the Sunshine Coast.

‘Our campaign is still moving forwards. I recently sent an email to all Councillors:

Good Afternoon Councillor,

As the housing crisis continuing to grow along with the cost-of-living crisis, the community believes that a review of the Sunshine Coast Regional Council Subordinate Local Law No. 1 (Administration) 2016 Schedule 7 Establishment or occupation of a temporary home is needed urgently.

We believe the existing law does not provide residents who camp, live in cars, caravans, tiny homes on wheels and caravans housing security. Many people living in these types of accommodation are families and children and under the Human Rights Act 2019 which commenced in Queensland on 1 January 2020, children and families are protected. When they live in housing insecurity, they are not protected.

The community has gathered and are proposing a new local law that will give all residents (including families and children) housing security during this growing polycrisis.

I have attached to this email the community’s proposal for a new local law for your consideration. Contrary to what we have been told, you have the complete power to change the existing local law. The Queensland government has no state interest in this local law. We reached out to the Deputy Premier in the Office of the Hon. Dr Steven Miles MP, Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning for guidance on how local laws are made and managed.

A Senior Policy Advisor provided us the following:

“It is the responsibility of each local government to make and enforce their local laws to regulate a broad range of issues within their communities. A local law is developed independently by local government tailored to meet the specific needs of its community. Accordingly, the decision to limit a temporary home to one per property is a local government decision made by the council in this instance.”

“In Queensland, local governments have the discretion to determine timeframes for temporary accommodation that consider the requirements of their community. Factors such as population, demographics, urban/rural mix, location of LGA (rural/coastal) etc. may contribute to council’s approach to temporary housing requirements/timeframes under its local laws.”

“There are no specific legislative requirements under Queensland State legislation regarding timeframes for temporary housing such as tiny homes, caravans, or recreational vehicles. These are managed at the local level under local government local laws.”

“It is considered local governments are best placed to make localised policy decisions to suit local circumstances and needs. The model local laws are designed to allow councils to draft specific provisions, within a subordinate local law, to reflect the needs of their unique communities.”

A follow up conversation with the Senior Policy Advisor indicated that because it is a subordinate local law, the Queensland Government has no jurisdiction and you have full autonomy on how a subordinate local laws are made, amended, or repealed. It seems this is the case as you are currently proposing amendments to Subordinate Local Law No.2 (Animal Management) 2023. I encourage you to reach out to your contacts in the Department of State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning to confirm the information we received is accurate.

We are asking you, our elected representative, to support our request to trial an amended Establishment or occupation of a temporary home local law for a period of 5 years without a permit while we as a community navigate this growing housing crisis together.

We are also asking that the amended local law allow for more than one temporary dwelling based on the size of the private land.

We have landowners who not only want to help, but also need help to live in place. At the same time we are experiencing a substantial increase in people wanting and needing to provide a home that is no longer a traditional one. Their choice of housing whether voluntarily or out of necessity needs to be respected and accommodated.

Local Government’s across Australia are currently reviewing their position on how they manage caravans. Mount Alexander Shire Council in Victoria has removed the requirement for a permit and timeframe in light of the housing crisis.

We urge you to genuinely consider our proposed new local law and engage meaningfully with the community so together we can make changes to the existing local law to give people housing security.

Councillors Dickson, Natoli, Law and Suarez responded and will be doing their own research.

Councillors Baberowski and Cox, responded and have forwarded the email to council officers; and Councillors Johnston, O'Pray, Landsberg, Hungerford have not responded.

We await a response.’

Other States have started to allow tiny home living - it can be done, we just need to be persistent to make changes happen!