A special evening with the Lions Club of Brisbane Vietnamese at their annual Changeover Dinner. Milton Dick MP and I were honoured to have been invited along to celebrate and help them to raise funds for the Queensland Big Red Kidney Bus. We also had the opportunity...

A warm welcome to the Brisbane Legends INC who have established a new Badminton venue here in Springfield. Currently playing in Nundah, Logan and UQ, Springfield is the next logical place for this growing sports club that has over 200 members engaged in cricket and...

How exciting to catch up with the newly-established Philippines-Australia Multicultural Association Inc. The group is seeking to connect Filipino migrants, new and old settlers here in Australia with other multicultural communities through welfare, sports and...

Recently, I personally bid on and won these beautiful portraits at a fundraiser for homelessness services hosted by our Rotary Club of Greater Springfield. The portraits of strong women representing the four seasons were painted by the amazingly talented...

The Springfield Camira Men's Shed Inc were literally having their 'two Bob's worth' today, when Bob B and Bob S came for a meeting.  Some productive discussions today on progressing the plans for their site in #Springfield, fundraising & grants...

Nil (0) community cases in the last 24 hours  12, 649 tests undertaken and 34.75% of all eligible Queenslanders are now vaccinated. Interesting data released by the Federal Health Department today shows that Queensland is one of the few states FULLY utilising our...

Nil (0) community cases detected in the last 24 hours which is great news. A huge thanks to the more than 900 families isolating right now after cases were detected in #Logan. The Chief Health Officer says the risk linked to those cases is easing, with most close...

Too many people with a disability in our Jordan community are missing out on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Today, the Queensland Government launched the 'Disability Connect and Outreach Program' for Ipswich and Logan - where a special assessment and...

One (1) new locally acquired case - this is the mother of the four year old identified yesterday, and she was already in home quarantine. Unfortunately, a large number of people did not use the Check-in QLD App in some of the exposure sites in Beenleigh...which is...

Queensland homes can expect to save another $50 off their power bills this month  There’s no need to apply… it will show up as a $50 credit on your next bill. Easy! Thanks to Queensland’s publicly-owned energy assets, the Palaszczuk Government can pass on another...

One (1) new local case identified in the last 24 hours - the 4 year old daughter of a case linked to the truck driver living in Windaroo. There is concern with the following exposure sites on MONDAY 30 AUGUST 2021:  Beenleigh Marketplace Shopping Centre114-118...

Thanks to the team at Gailes Community House - Family and Community Hub for an awesome ‘Kids Biz in the Park’ in Lowry Park this morning. A wonderful opportunity for our Gailes community to connect with services and have lots of fun! Councillor Nicole Jonic - Ipswich...

New and updated contact tracing locations in Beenleigh and Goondiwindi. If you've been to any of these locations at the times listed please get tested immediately and follow the advice of the Queensland Health contact tracing website. CLOSE CONTACTSThursday 26 August...

Nil (0) community cases detected in the last 24 hours 16,613 tests undertaken - which is a fantastic result and 21,723 vaccinations were administered in the last 24 hours as well. We now have 51.6% (1st dose) and 32.9% (2nd dose), in Queensland - we need to use this...

Couldn't ask for a better start to the morning - catching up with over 600 of our local school teachers in Greater Springfield. As part of the 2021 Festival of Learning, the Greater Springfield Learning Coalition hosted a Professional Development morning for...