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01/09/2026

National Wattle Day celebrates our national floral emblem. It reminds us that our land abounds in nature's gifts, of beauty, rich and rare. But is it really all that green? Or is the azure blue of our Oceanic skies and southern seas more true?

September 1st is National Wattle Day. It celebrates our national floral emblem. It reminds us that our land abounds in nature’s gifts, of beauty, rich and rare. But is it really all that gree…

14/07/2026

Reform for Greater Accountability

Both the Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Parliament are unicameral houses.

It’s time to make them more accountable between elections.

HERE ARE SOME SOLUTIONS

https://www.cleatcheats.com/reforms-for-accountability/

08/07/2026

On this day, the Australian Constitution became law.

The day Australia’s Constitution became law.

03/07/2026

The Council has become undemocratic and unresponsive to the public. The State government should step in and ensure committees and bipartisan and a small upper house of review should be vote in on Proportional Representation.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14gGue6FPd1/

Brisbane's LNP Council has passed unprecedented changes to local laws to shield itself from Opposition scrutiny.

Multiple changes, made in a late-night "Special Meeting" post-Budget, mean that Council's Opposition leader will no longer be able to call files or information on any Council program, project or service outside of his own ward.

Visit BrisbaneNow.Online to read the full story. Link in the comments below, on our story, and in our bio.

02/07/2026

The Council, and now the State government, are fraudulently marketing themselves.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Both governments are unicameral and stack the committees, so they have a stranglehold on decision-making. Both Qld and Brisbane need rules to ensure better representation in committees and both need upper houses of review.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HQbBhUKfW/

Overnight, the LNP-controlled Council forced through sweeping changes to its rules that silence opposition Councillors and weaken democratic accountability.

Under these new rules, opposition Councillors are prohibited from asking questions about projects or contracts outside their own wards and are restricted to just three questions on notice per Council meeting.

Then, almost immediately, the Lord Mayor and his administration pushed through the sale of the historic, heritage-listed School of Arts building on Ann Street.

This is not an isolated decision. It is part of an increasingly disturbing pattern of behaviour from both the Council and the State Government.

We've already seen it with the Visy site in South Brisbane. Public assets are being sold off with little or no meaningful community consultation. The ability of elected representatives to ask difficult questions, scrutinise decisions and advocate on behalf of their communities is being systematically stripped away. The public's right to challenge planning decisions is being eroded. Transparency has reached an all-time low as council and state government deliberately withhold critical information about deals negotiated behind closed doors with wealthy developers and vested interests.

This is not good governance. It is the deliberate dismantling of accountability.

Every one of these decisions concentrates more power in the hands of those already in government while reducing the ability of the public to scrutinise, question and influence the decisions that affect our communities.

As residents, ratepayers and taxpayers, we have every right to know how our money is being spent, how our public assets are being managed and whose interests our governments are truly serving.

Democracy doesn't disappear overnight. It is weakened one rule change, one secret deal and one removed safeguard at a time.

05/06/2026

Celebrate it - the Qld government is actually promoting this year, unlike the Labor government which IGNORED our 200 anniversary!

https://equanimity.blog/2025/01/08/queensland-ignored-its-own-bicentenary/

It's interesting that they are using maroon instead of blue to advertise Queensland Day... the Crisafulli govt has changed the state govt's corporate colours to match the LNP's. See cleatcheats.

https://qldday.initiatives.qld.gov.au/

On June 6th, we celebrate Queensland Day by shining a light on the everyday heroes who make our state great.

30/05/2026

There are two problems with the BCC. 1/ The committees are all stacked by the same party that has a majority in the Assembly. The other members and party's voices are muted. 2/ The LNP has a marketing gerrymander (see https://www.cleatcheats.com/) and they get away with it because they have a stranglehold on the BCC.
The solution is for the Qld government to change the rules of committee membership to make them more bipartisan. That would solve the marketing gerrymander.
Another safeguard against monopoly control is a house of review. Again, the Qld government could create it.

17/05/2026

Cleat Cheats scratches the surface. The Robe and the Ledger digs deep:

Robes, jabots, hoods—call them costumes, call them regalia. They’re meant to hold ceremony and trust. But what if the costumes simply help hide what institutions are doing to the people they’re supposed to protect?

15/05/2026

Brisbane City Council should have an upper house of review.

BCC lacks accountability. Every 4 years, the election winner breaks promises and does a lot of unpopular things in the first 2 years. Then it spends the last 2 years sweetening everyone up with tax breaks, hoping they'll forget the first 2 years. Community consultations are a shame and developers have too much influence. Politicians avoid plebiscites on important issues the public disagree with (such as the Olympics and endless growth).

The Brisbane LGA is responsible for a bigger budget and population than the state of Tasmania. Every government in the country (except Qld) has an upper house of review.

Should Brisbane hold a vote on creating a House of Review?

What are your thoughts?

14/05/2026

10:30am Live at Parliament House - Sustainable Population Australia's shake down of the so-called skilled migration program!!

We all know what a rort the skilled migration program is.

Tune in live at 10:30 AM this morning to hear Sustainable Population Australia's Vice-President Dr Jane O'Sullivan give a verbal shake-down to the Joint Standing Committee on Migration.

Jane has been allocated 40 minutes, and the rest of the day is pro-migration people.

The session can be viewed live at 10.30 Canberra time at https://www.aph.gov.au/live

The day's program and the submission that SPA made to the inquiry is linked in the comment below.

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