This one is cross-posted from Lin's piece in his great local blog covering the Logan/Scenic Rim area, Cedar Grove View . It's one of a number where she questions decisions being made by councils that are just about to amalgamate. 

Logan City Council, at its Development and Environment Committee meeting—starting at 08.30 on Wednesday, 27 February—will consider as item DE5 on its agenda details to do with a material change of use (MCU) request by the developer of Yarrabilba estate.

This from Paul Matthews, a Cairns1st candidate for Division 8 in Cairns.

Hi...Paul Matthews is my name . I am a candidate for Division 8 in the upcoming Cairns Regional Council elections. There has been a forced amalgamation between Cairns City Council and Douglas Shire with 65,000 electors in 10 new divisions(previously 18 councillors)I am running for Division 8 in a grass roots campaign with Val Schier's Cairns 1st Alliance against the incumbent council run by mayor, Kevin Byrne. 

This one by Sarah, from The Voice of Today's Apathetic Youth . Cross-posted by permission.  

Campbell Newman is whinging loudly about what he has labelled a smear campaign, after Brisbane voters were called by a WA-based polling company and asked questions that included whether they thought Newman was a hypocrite for trumpeting his climate-change 'policies' while continuing to drive a V8 car.

This is the latest big story from Strewth! , one of the best little blogs in Queensland. Reposted with permission. Wide Bay's Water Commission woes have been a hot topic over there lately - more citizen journalists at work for you!

The confidential review of Wide Bay Water Corporation, that was buried by the Hervey Bay City Council and cost the job of the  Chief Executive Officer who commissioned it, has found the water utility is costing ratepayers up to $4 million a year in duplicated services and that the council has become a “rubber stamp” for its operations.

Furthermore, rather than the promised rich dividends it was supposed to pay the council, WBWC has never come even close to the returns outlined in its corporate charter and has performed so poorly that it is returning only about half of what it was supposed to and will fall even further behind over the life of its financial plan..