Red Friday - The Burnett Strikes Back

This is a new improved version of a previous video with a similar title. Apologies to Carl Rackemann for that little typo in the previous video.

On the 17th of April the Beattie government launched a preemptive strike on rural Queensland, when they announced that the voluntary "Size, Shape, and Sustainability" process to local government reform had been replaced by a rapid, forced, and undemocratic process. On Friday the 8th of June, Red Friday, the people of the Burnett struck back, holding a protest march in Gayndah.

Approximately 500 people met to listen to a bevvy of formal and informal speeches. The discussions revealed many important facts and a groundswell of sentiment, however two key points emerged.

The people of the Burnett are not prepared to idly accept the Local Government Reform process and secondly that the group gathered in Gayndah which to progress their protest in a robust fashion.

Below is a new improved video bringing out some of the main points of the day. Stay tuned for more videos and information over the coming days.

Red Friday - A poem by Kathy Duff

Well the Red Friday rally in Gayndah went off very well. The success of the day can be attributed to many people, one person who contributed in no small what was Cr Kathy Duff from Wondai Shire Council. If you read our earlier post you will know that Kathy wrote a Red Friday poem. You may not know that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Fiona Simpson MP was due to table the poem in Parliament today (make that yesterday, i just saw the time). At this stage we do not know if Ms Simpson was able to table the poem before being ejected from the house. So just to be sure here is a video of Cr Duff reading her poem "Red Friday"