Redland Investment Corporation’s deals include sale of various Cleveland CBD car parks without community consultation.
Toondah Harbour development plans, the Council’s Redland Investment Corporation (RIC) and the ‘Big Australia’ population policy are discussed in letters to Redlands2030.
Stop the Toondah rort!
Eye catching poster calling for action to save the Toondah wetlands
I heard the Toondah discussion on ABC radio last week. I thought it showed there are a large group of Redland residents very strongly opposed to the Toondah Harbour development.
I think the Toondah Action Group’s logo is Stop the Rort: Fix the Port!!!
It says it all.
If Mr Laming honestly believes that there is equal support as opposition for the project, he is displaying just how totally out of touch with his own electorate he is.
Or perhaps he is deliberately mistaking lack of awareness about the true extent of the proposal as ignorant, silent support for same.
Councillors have been gagged not to speak about the project, and some have been warned not even to say anything about birds on their FaceBook page!
We need to continue to increase the community awareness of this dreadful theft of public land and RAMSAR wetland for private development from right under our noses.
MJ
Ormiston
Rid Redlands of RIC
One of the Cleveland CBD publicly owned car parks privatised by Redland Investment Corporation.
It is time to put a stop to undisclosed public asset sales and council enabled investment corporations.
These “companies act outside the scrutiny and controls of authority audits and protections available under the Local Government Act.
People concerned about council governance and accountability should sign your petition to do away with RIC [the Redand Investment Corporation] and play forward the petition.
Council investment corporations are subject to abuse, as displayed in Ipswich where multiple arrests and corruption charges are proceeding, and an Administrator has been appointed to allegedly clean up the mess.
One of the principles of local government is transparency and community consultation.
here is the transparency and community consultation, or representative community engagement, in the operations of Redland’s RIC?
ND
Thornlands
Editor: See (and sign) the Redlands2030 petition calling on Redland City Council to wind up the Redland Investment Corporation.
Paper copies of this petition will be available at the Redlands2030 public meeting this evening.
Why a big Australia?
Accommodating a ‘Big Australia’
As I see it the glories of our “Big Australia” mass immigration program which has led us to having the highest population growth rate of any OECD nation…. as high as many “third-world” countries.
While big business, banks, developers, construction firms, the migration lobby etc reap in the benefits and profits… ordinary Australians pay the price particularly with heavily congested roads, as well as crowded hospitals, schools, trains etc.
Everyone cries “build infrastructure”… but the real solution lies in winding back our immigration intake.
It should go back to a more sensible level which was maintained for most of the last century.
Tell me again why we need a “Big Australia”… why bigger is better???
SB
Bracken Ridge
What do you think?
Share your thoughts with the Redlands and beyond by sending a letter to:
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Redlands2030 – 27 September 2018
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2 Comments
Perhaps Redland Council should suffer the same fate as Ipswich and then Toondah and other forts might be halted. The CBD can only be harmed by the proposed development. Or is that Council’s plan? The dog debacle during the markets indicates a plan to get rid of that affair.
I have to agree with MJ of Ormiston. This proposal by Walker Corporation represents a theft of public land and Ramsar wetland by a developer for commercial purposes, which quite plainly cannot be properly supported by infrastructure in this small pocket of coastline, not to mention catastrophic damage to the wetlands and all the wildlife the wetlands support. I have been informed that Walker Corp have no intention of upgrading the ferry entry until 900 units have been constructed and sold. If anyone has this in writing please get back to me so that I can pass it onto the Member for Redlands, Kim Richards. The more we find out about the Walker Proposal for Toondah the more unpalatable it becomes. No wonder it is surrounded in “Commercial in Confidence.”