tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post3934470238849255309..comments2024-01-20T10:32:53.309+10:00Comments on CairnsBlog.net: Statement from Cairns Regional Council CEO Noel BriggsMichael P Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02890121680113642715noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-69322629155699746892009-04-29T16:05:00.000+10:002009-04-29T16:05:00.000+10:00How is it Briggs is heading this investigation,whi...How is it Briggs is heading this investigation,which in effect is <br />check about himself.<br /><br />Surely Boyle should be brought into this mess and be allowed to take appropriate action.<br /><br />Val should take immediate steps to<br />dismiss Briggs,his actions have set this council back into the dark ages.Cairns residentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-54370801041585534852009-04-27T22:17:00.000+10:002009-04-27T22:17:00.000+10:00I agree with Noctural Congress's comments...
We a...I agree with Noctural Congress's comments...<br /><br />We also do not want a situtation whereby a Mayor and councillor come on the radio and make derogatory and untrue statments on air about individuals or groups in the community, have Macca, agreeing and asking leading questions to incite the vitriolic comments, and then to find out a year or so later, that as ratepayers, we are paying to be abused publicly.<br /><br />I think not.....Fiona Tulipnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-46088169076541123762009-04-27T20:19:00.000+10:002009-04-27T20:19:00.000+10:00Yes, we may have a corporatised council with its l...Yes, we may have a corporatised council with its logo, values statement, code of conduct, hierarchical management, overpaid CEO and back-stabbing sociopaths clawing their way up the greasy pole (as well as having a bit of nooky on the side), but the councillors themselves are freely elected by the people. They are not products of the corporation to be packaged and sold around like bloody bananas.nocturnal congressnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-28337008900941001612009-04-27T17:49:00.000+10:002009-04-27T17:49:00.000+10:00Well YoungDan, there's a thing called what's allow...Well YoungDan, there's a thing called what's allowed by law when broadcasting.<br /><br />Such an arrangement, that is not publically declared in advance, is illegal. <br /><br />No one should pay their rates / taxes and then allow them to be spent any old how. What a ridiculous thing to suggest.<br /><br />Advertising is one thing. MPs / Councillors talking on a radio is another. and there's clearly defined precedents about what is appropriate and protocol.Michael P Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02890121680113642715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-33983407605358109542009-04-27T14:54:00.000+10:002009-04-27T14:54:00.000+10:00Who is Hulls lawyer? Not Carmen Graham Lickspittle...Who is Hulls lawyer? Not Carmen Graham Lickspittles is it?<br /><br />Oh dear, more of the lunatic fringe from Youngdan :-/KitchenSluthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15947481064967081891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-51103305794691920152009-04-27T14:38:00.000+10:002009-04-27T14:38:00.000+10:00Michael,
The following statement you made is so ve...Michael,<br />The following statement you made is so very incorrect.<br /><br />The fact is John, when a Councillor or the Mayor is talking on your radio station, they are not 'advertising', as you incessantly insist. They are publicly-elected representatives of the community. They are not running a Tupperware store, trying to flog off the latest range of burp-free self seals.<br /><br />Michael, if you understood the illusion being portrayed by the Cairns Regional Council business, A BODY CORPORATE with its own ABN registration, we would be all better off.<br />They may not be selling Tupperware but they are operating a BUSINESS of selling Management Services over our land held under fee simple title.<br /><br />If you vote for these grubs, then willingly pay the Management Service Fee, (rates) and then complain about what they do and how they operate that is your problem.<br /><br />If you don’t like their Management Services they provide and how they elect to advertise these services why give them the authority to continue behind the smoke and mirrors.<br /><br />The Qld Court of Appeal justices spelt this out very clearly back in 2002 in the Bone -v- Mothershaw case in which they made the following statement;<br />[23] This brings me to what is really Mr Bone's fundamental complaint about the whole process of vegetation protection that has been imposed on his land under chapter 22. <br /><br />It is that, by the Council's action in making the order, his land has been struck with sterility in relation to the uses he can now lawfully make of it. Except with Council approval, there is practically nothing he can do with it except continue to grow vegetation and perhaps walk on it. <br /><br />His refusal or failure to recognise that this state of affairs now prevails has already cost him $20,000 in penalties, to say nothing of legal costs, his own as well as those of the Council. <br /><br />For this severe limitation on his rights as owner, he has received and will receive no compensation, although he continues to enjoy the privilege of paying the rates that the Council levies on his land. The action taken by the Council was no doubt undertaken in the public interest, as it claims, of the citizens of Brisbane; but it is not they who will bear the financial disadvantages of the action taken in their interest. <br /><br />It is of little consolation to him to learn that, as the Council proudly proclaims in some of its material, it is the only local authority in Australia that provides this service (or some stages of it) to a land owner who is targeted completely free of charge.Youngdannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7878592054777492431.post-34099050583983180472009-04-27T14:29:00.000+10:002009-04-27T14:29:00.000+10:00Briggs in charge of the "Cash for Macca" investiga...Briggs in charge of the "Cash for Macca" investigation, a bit like putting Nixon in charge of the Watergate inquirey...Deep Throatnoreply@blogger.com