Some breaking news from Deputy Mayor Brett Olds

00:56:22
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الملخص

TLDRVideoen tar seerne med til Kawara Beach, hvor verten, Steve, snakker med Brett Olds, nestleder og rådgiver for området. De diskuterer tilstanden til strendene, spesielt behovet for vedlikehold og forbedringer. Verten viser rundt på stranden og peker på spesifikke områder som trenger oppmerksomhet, inkludert Wangetti Trail, som har hatt problemer med erosjon. Samtalen inkluderer også fremtidige planer for turisme og infrastruktur, samt status for toalettfasiliteter i området. Det er en positiv tone med fokus på forbedringer og samarbeid mellom myndighetene.

الوجبات الجاهزة

  • 🌊 Kawara Beach trenger mer vedlikehold.
  • 🛤️ Wangetti Trail er under utvikling, men har hatt erosjonsproblemer.
  • 🚻 Det er planer om nye toalettfasiliteter i området.
  • 🌳 Døde trær på Kawara Beach skal fjernes.
  • 🏖️ Samarbeid mellom myndigheter er viktig for fremtidige forbedringer.

الجدول الزمني

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Introduksjon til Kawara Beach og intervju med Brett Olds, den lokale visemannen. Visning av stranden og diskusjon om behovet for vedlikehold.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Brett forklarer at det er pågående arbeid på Wangetti Trail, som ble dårlig utført av tidligere myndigheter. Den nåværende regjeringen har forpliktet seg til å forbedre stien.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Diskusjon om dyrehagen i Palm Cove og mulige utviklinger for området, inkludert parkering og servicefasiliteter.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Brett uttrykker bekymring for planene om å installere stoppskilt i Palm Cove, og foreslår en rundkjøring for bedre trafikkflyt.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Diskusjon om muligheten for rimeligere overnatting i Palm Cove og behovet for privat sektorengasjement.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Brett gir oppdateringer om Palm Cove-området, inkludert muligheten for båter å bruke kaien igjen for turer og middagscruise.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Informasjon om Ironman-arrangementet som skal finne sted i Palm Cove, og oppfordring til å se på videoen.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Brett snakker om forbedringer i infrastruktur, inkludert fotgjengerfelt og sykkelstier, og bekymringer om trafikk og sikkerhet.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

    Diskusjon om sand erosjon og tiltak for å beskytte strendene, inkludert Clifton Beach og Holloways Beach.

  • 00:45:00 - 00:50:00

    Brett gir en oppdatering om Kawara Beach, inkludert fjerning av døde trær og mulige sandtilskudd for å forbedre stranden.

  • 00:50:00 - 00:56:22

    Avslutning med oppfordring til seerne om å abonnere på kanalen og følge med på fremtidige oppdateringer.

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الخريطة الذهنية

فيديو أسئلة وأجوبة

  • Hvem er Brett Olds?

    Brett Olds er nestleder og rådgiver for området Kawara Beach.

  • Hva er hovedtemaene i samtalen?

    Samtalen dekker lokale spørsmål som tilstanden til strendene, infrastrukturprosjekter, og fremtidige planer for turisme.

  • Hva er Wangetti Trail?

    Wangetti Trail er en tursti som er under utvikling, men har hatt problemer med erosjon og oversvømmelser.

  • Hva er status for toalettfasilitetene i området?

    Det er planer om å bygge nye toalettfasiliteter, men det kan ta flere år før de er ferdige.

  • Hva er planene for Kawara Beach?

    Det er planer om å rydde opp døde trær og forbedre strandområdet.

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التمرير التلقائي:
  • 00:00:06
    Good day and uh welcome back to the
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    channel Walking Canes. Uh we've come
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    down to Kawara a beach. Uh beautiful
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    Kawara Beach. I'll just show you around
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    the beach before we do the chat with uh
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    Brett Olds. Oh, by the way, we're doing
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    having a chat with Brett Olds. He's the
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    deputy mayor and counselor for this
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    region. And uh he can tell us what's uh
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    what's happening in the in the area.
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    I've got a few questions for him. Uh so
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    we'll see what he says. Okay, beautiful
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    Koara. Let's go and have a look. I'll
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    spin you around and uh we'll have a
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    look. Okay, here we are. Beautiful
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    Koara. I think I showed you the sign
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    there when I was talking. So, we're at
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    Kawara Beach. And I'm actually going to
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    ask Brett about the uh the thing I keep
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    banging on about about Kara that is it
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    it looks a bit dirty. It needs some TLC.
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    So, he's going to give us some some
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    information on on what's what's
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    happening. Okay, there's the uh the
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    mechanism for the
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    nets. This is
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    a part of the uh part of the northern
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    beach. Part of the northern beach is
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    uh leer trail here.
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    And they talking about the the bridge
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    here. We've gone across it many times
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    before. Okay. So, let's go and have a
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    quick look at the beach. This beach
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    looks fantastic when the uh when the
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    sea's out. This is the Coral Sea, by the
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    way. That's Taylor's Point over
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    there. Let's go for a walk over there.
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    There's a lot of lights going on there
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    at night time. I have to ask Brett
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    what's all the what all the lights are
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    for. Let's see if I remember. I've
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    written a few things down,
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    but
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    yeah. Okay, there we go. Beautiful day
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    today. Oh, as I keep saying, I can see
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    why people come up here for a holiday.
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    We're so
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    lucky. There's Hoff
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    Island, Double Island. You can see the
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    jetty at Palm Cove there.
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    There's the bridge I was talking about
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    there for the footpath. That's Clifton
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    Beach there where the rock wall
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    is. Quite a big beach, Clifton Beach.
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    What I might do is I might um I might
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    pause it and then zoom in. There we go.
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    Zoomed
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    in. Beautiful.
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    [Applause]
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    [Applause]
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    beautiful. Okay, I think we'll just do
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    the u the chat in the in the sheds up
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    there next in the barbecue area. Yeah,
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    just up there. We'll do it up there.
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    Okay. Well, I'll go and set up and
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    uh Brett Olds will be here in a minute,
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    so we'll do it then. Okay. Remember,
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    like, subscribe, hit the notification
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    bell, okay? And en enjoy the chat with
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    Brett. See you. Look after yourselves.
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    Bye. Back to the channel. Uh Walking
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    Cans. We're here at uh beautiful Kowara
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    Beach. Uh I hope you're all doing well
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    and looking after yourself in paradise
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    here. It's been beautiful weather the
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    last few days. U I'm here with Brett
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    Als. He's counselor and deputy mayor and
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    uh I've got a few questions that I've
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    I've got for him. Uh and uh you all know
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    who he is so he doesn't have to
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    introduce himself. So how you doing
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    guys? Good to see you again. Good to see
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    you Steve. Good. How are you? Yeah, good
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    mate. So I'll jump into the questions.
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    Uh uh so yeah. So enough waffle. Waffle.
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    Yeah, it is a beautiful day though.
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    Fantastic. I just look I get distracted.
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    look out at the view and I think
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    everything disappears. You know, it's
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    like being in paradise. I'll go this
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    chillness comes over you. Wonder all the
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    poor people are doing in the world. You
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    got it pretty good. Although I'm glad we
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    met here today because we've got an
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    update for quar. Yeah, that's why I
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    suggested here so can do the update.
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    Okay, so I run through some some of
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    these questions. I I these are questions
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    of myself. uh uh or maybe one or two
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    other people have suggested I ask some
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    things uh which I'll do towards the end,
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    but I thought I'd start at the at the
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    northern end of Ellis and then work down
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    to uh to Kuara and perhaps Holloways. So
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    um first question, um Ellis Beach, the
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    Wangetti trail there, y it seems to are
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    they doing work on it? It seems to be
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    fenced off and the trucks are out there
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    doing something. Yeah. Well, the
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    previous government, the state
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    government, Labor, um, before their
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    election, they spent a whole lot of
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    money trying to get it open before the
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    election, so they had something to brag
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    on because they'd already been through
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    two election cycles promising it. And I
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    think what you'll find is they rushed
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    it. They didn't get the right people
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    that have worked in the wet tropics
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    before. And all the experts, including
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    my wife and other friends who work
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    tracks and trails, when we walked it, it
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    was beautiful walk, but they said, "It's
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    going to wash out here, wash out there,
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    wash there." It was it was done terribly
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    uh if I'm being honest and um and what
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    happened when we got all those rains it
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    washed out. So the current state
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    government I've been talking obviously
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    it's an LMP government. I've been
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    talking to Brie James the member for
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    Baron River and also Andrew Pow who's
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    the minister for department of
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    environment and tourism. Um they have
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    committed and they've just released this
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    week or a few days ago their 2045 their
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    20 year uh tourism plan which is going
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    to take us from $4.8 billion to$10
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    billion in tourism per year over the
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    next 20 years. And um and that's
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    exciting if they can make it happen, but
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    they've got a real focus. One of the big
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    projects is Wanghetti. So they're
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    committed to continuing on with Wedgeti,
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    but with the question about Ellis Beach,
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    uh what's happened there. They are going
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    to fix it, but they're going to get
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    someone knows what they're doing. So
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    they helps that does help. So and the
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    wheels and we'll talk about off air a
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    second. The wheels of government never
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    move as fast as we like. If it was a
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    private industry, there wouldn't been
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    any issues would have been done. But um
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    but no, the current government is trying
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    to assess where does it need to be
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    rerouted, how can we fix it so it won't
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    get washed out because obviously we get
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    heavy rainforcy every single year. So um
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    they're on to it. I don't have a time
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    frame on you. That's a question
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    obviously for Brie or or Minister Pow.
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    But um I I do know they're looking at it
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    and they're 100% serious. They're going
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    to finish the Wetti Trail all the way to
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    Port Douglas. So that was a concern.
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    Some people were saying if they got into
  • 00:06:43
    government they might that was what
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    Labour was saying. If they get in,
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    they're not going to continue it. But
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    they are. They're going to continue it.
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    So, yeah. Well, it's good for tourism.
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    But I read I read something and I I'm
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    guessing they're talking about the
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    Wangetti trail. And the headline was the
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    most expensive foot path in Australia.
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    Is that that be that, wouldn't it? That
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    was Minister Pal. Yeah. Brie calls it
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    the wrong Getty Trail. He says it's
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    wrong. And Andrew Pal said it was the
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    most expensive footpath in Australia.
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    And to be honest, it was like Wagner got
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    awarded that contract. They had never
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    built a wilderness trail in their life.
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    Um and so they outsourced it I think to
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    a town hall based um bloke who came up
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    here and just looked at the plans that
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    he had on map and just did it exactly to
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    that. I've talked to other wilderness
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    trail builders and they said you can't
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    do that. You got to look at what what
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    you've been given like the scoping
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    document but then when you get on site
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    and you see different things like
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    they're like you you can't get from this
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    height down here. You're going to have
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    to go around and you've got to make
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    judgment calls when you're there. And
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    apparently this bloke didn't. He just
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    went built it exactly like it was drawn
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    on a piece of paper. And the mountains
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    aren't built like a piece of paper. So
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    they're not again I'm not the expert,
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    but I have talked to a bunch of the
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    builders and um wilderness trail
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    experts. They're going to be I think
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    we're going to have a different person
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    fixing that trailer, a different group.
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    I don't know who that's going to be just
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    yet, but we got a couple really good
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    local firms. It's obviously a real
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    problem because it gets washed out every
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    year. Yeah, it's like the Clifton Beach
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    footpath, isn't it? Oh well, we fixed
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    that again and we put pipes in
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    underneath so hopefully it won't go
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    again. But if you look at the Smithfield
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    Mountain Bike Park, that's been built
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    since the 1990s. Now, it does need some
  • 00:08:12
    work every year, but every trail does in
  • 00:08:13
    the world, but that doesn't get washed
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    away. That was built by World Trail and
  • 00:08:17
    Glenn Jacobs and the boys. So, Dylan and
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    Glenn are partners there. We got Evan
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    from Contour Works is another good local
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    company. We got some we got some ripping
  • 00:08:24
    young um and and local companies here
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    doing that stuff. So, even with the wet
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    tropics, you can build building Austral
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    that'll hold up. Well, I hope so cuz I
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    think it'll be excellent. Oh, it's going
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    to be fantastic. Okay, let's move on
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    then. Uh you go down to Palm Cove. Now
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    I'll start with the easy ones. U the
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    zoo. Everybody asks about the zoo and we
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    got an old zoo there. Is the zoo closed
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    uh just before I moved into canes and I
  • 00:08:47
    would have loved to have gone and seen
  • 00:08:48
    it but the zoo closed and just opposite
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    is the opal mine. What's happening with
  • 00:08:53
    those two sites? Any news? Yeah. No no
  • 00:08:56
    no new news. Sorry. But they're both
  • 00:08:58
    privately owned. Um, you know, there was
  • 00:09:00
    a bit of before the last election, we're
  • 00:09:02
    trying to get the state to maybe buy the
  • 00:09:04
    zoo site and make it for a car parking
  • 00:09:07
    site or maybe like a caravan park up
  • 00:09:09
    there and trying to get like electric
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    shuttles taking cars to Palm Cove cuz
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    the parking in Palm Co's always been an
  • 00:09:16
    issue. Yeah, that didn't happen. Um, and
  • 00:09:18
    it was just one of many concepts thrown
  • 00:09:20
    up. The zoo site years ago, council
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    approved a service station and a fast
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    food uh place to be built on both sides
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    of the road. No. Yeah, on the No, just
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    on the one, not the Opal one. He didn't
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    get he hasn't got any extra approvals
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    that I know of, but the zoo site. And
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    because of that, what they're proposing
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    is to put a stop light. Now, I voted
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    against it, by the way. We've got You
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    have to put a stop light there. Yeah, we
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    got we've got two stop lights. Yeah, we
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    got two stop lights in on the highway
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    right now, and they want to put a third
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    one. And and they're saying because the
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    service station's been approved there.
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    This what the state's telling us. It's
  • 00:09:50
    your fault, council, even though it's a
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    state road, state highway. Because it's
  • 00:09:54
    serve there, it's the safest way to get
  • 00:09:55
    people across. And I said, "You are
  • 00:09:57
    going to kill traffic and all you're
  • 00:09:58
    doing is extending suburbia." So you you
  • 00:10:01
    Palm Cove is something special. You feel
  • 00:10:02
    like you're on an island getaway and we
  • 00:10:04
    don't want to have a stoplight in a fast
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    food place. I've got no problems with
  • 00:10:07
    fast food places. Have a look at me. I
  • 00:10:08
    love them. But Palm Cove, you don't need
  • 00:10:11
    one there. So but but anyway, that's
  • 00:10:13
    what's been approved. Um we're trying to
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    get a roundabout, an entrance statement,
  • 00:10:16
    not just an entrance statement to Palm
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    Cove there. A big roundabout put there
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    instead of stop lights. Well, that's on
  • 00:10:20
    the Palm Cove Boulevard. Yeah. Palm Cove
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    Boulevard. Yeah. right there at Boissera
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    Drive and Palmco Boulevard. That's the
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    northern part side of the of the zoo of
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    the zoo. Yeah, the old zoo site. But the
  • 00:10:30
    entrance statement isn't just for Palm
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    Co. The entrance statement is for the
  • 00:10:32
    beginning of the Great Bar Reef Drive,
  • 00:10:34
    which is what the states called that
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    highway which goes all the way to Cape
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    Tribulation. I think that would be
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    fantastic. They need to market that
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    more. I think we we do need to market
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    and the state government and even the
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    federal government. That's we got to
  • 00:10:45
    play to our strengths. And I think
  • 00:10:46
    putting a set of stop lights there in a
  • 00:10:48
    service station isn't well if you put a
  • 00:10:50
    service station there. I mean I I come
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    out as you know I live up there so I
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    come out that Alexandra uh uh avenue or
  • 00:10:56
    drive or road or whatever uh every
  • 00:10:58
    morning and some mornings I have to wait
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    10 minutes to find a and and you risk
  • 00:11:03
    your life trying to get across. Well
  • 00:11:05
    that's right. If if the big roundabout
  • 00:11:06
    went in at Bokeisa, which is just north
  • 00:11:08
    of Alexandra, Alexandra would come up
  • 00:11:10
    and hook to the north and actually
  • 00:11:12
    divert that would So you divert that
  • 00:11:13
    into the roundabout and that would make
  • 00:11:15
    it a lot safer. It'll keep traffic
  • 00:11:17
    flowing on traffic stop lights. You've
  • 00:11:19
    seen what it does on the weekends. The
  • 00:11:20
    two sets we've got. I know that Clifton
  • 00:11:22
    Road one is Oh, it's terrible. I think
  • 00:11:24
    Oh, I should never have put that there.
  • 00:11:25
    Really? Oh, the traffic. It was a
  • 00:11:27
    knee-jerk reaction, I think. No, it was.
  • 00:11:28
    And they Yeah, that we could tell a
  • 00:11:30
    story about that one, too, but it's
  • 00:11:32
    obviously a knee-jerk reaction. You can
  • 00:11:33
    see it cuz you think, you know, it
  • 00:11:36
    wasn't that bad. I used to I used to
  • 00:11:37
    live there on Bieber. How you going? I
  • 00:11:40
    used to live there on Bieber Street. So
  • 00:11:42
    I used to come out there every day and
  • 00:11:43
    it was never a problem. It's much worse
  • 00:11:45
    at Alexandra and that Buasis or whatever
  • 00:11:48
    it's called. Bus. Yeah. It was supposed
  • 00:11:49
    to be Evergreen Drive, the one we're
  • 00:11:51
    talking about, was supposed to always
  • 00:11:52
    have a huge roundabout there about the
  • 00:11:53
    same size as the Smithfield roundabout.
  • 00:11:55
    And the same thing, Rudder Street would
  • 00:11:56
    have come around and into it and Clifton
  • 00:11:58
    Road would have come around into it and
  • 00:12:00
    Evergreen and you would have had an
  • 00:12:01
    underpass for kids to get to the
  • 00:12:02
    playground and to the child care center.
  • 00:12:05
    Would have been fantastic, but it cost
  • 00:12:07
    more money to do that than to put a
  • 00:12:08
    cheap set of stop lightss in which have
  • 00:12:10
    just slowed everything down. It's been a
  • 00:12:12
    terrible outcome. It has. It's not good
  • 00:12:13
    at all. I mean, obviously government
  • 00:12:15
    highways, too, by the way. Council makes
  • 00:12:17
    mistakes, too, but I'm just highlighting
  • 00:12:19
    that that one's on stake. Yeah. I mean,
  • 00:12:21
    you got to have the one near the shops.
  • 00:12:22
    I mean, that's that's a given. That's
  • 00:12:24
    That's a dangerous one. That that is a
  • 00:12:26
    very busy intersection. Trucks coming in
  • 00:12:27
    there with deliveries and stuff. But the
  • 00:12:30
    others I I don't know. But anyway, it's
  • 00:12:32
    it I mean it it is a problem. If you're
  • 00:12:34
    going to put something like a a
  • 00:12:36
    development in there, it's going to be a
  • 00:12:37
    problem with the road, I think. No.
  • 00:12:39
    100%. And I don't know what's I don't
  • 00:12:40
    know what's going to happen with the
  • 00:12:41
    excess. Like that's all approved for
  • 00:12:43
    commercial on the front. We're back to
  • 00:12:44
    the zoo site. Yeah. So, it's all
  • 00:12:46
    commercial on the front. In the corner
  • 00:12:47
    has been approved uh service station and
  • 00:12:49
    fast food. And behind it, I think
  • 00:12:51
    residential perhaps. Yeah. What about
  • 00:12:53
    accommodation? you know, like a you
  • 00:12:54
    know, for I use the word backpacker, but
  • 00:12:57
    you know, let's say cheaper
  • 00:12:58
    accommodation than Palm Cove offers, you
  • 00:13:01
    know, that would be excellent over
  • 00:13:02
    there. It would be, but that's all in
  • 00:13:03
    it's up that's up to the private sector,
  • 00:13:05
    dude, because it's it's not state or
  • 00:13:07
    council own land. Yeah. We need you need
  • 00:13:09
    someone from the private sector to come
  • 00:13:10
    in and have a vision with one trail
  • 00:13:13
    going in. You could put accommodation
  • 00:13:14
    there. There's lots of ideas. You just
  • 00:13:16
    need someone with the right concept,
  • 00:13:17
    right idea, and enough money to see it
  • 00:13:19
    through and build it. So, and a bit of
  • 00:13:20
    leadership. But I'm sure Yeah, I'm sure
  • 00:13:22
    if someone came along um that would be
  • 00:13:24
    looked favorably upon by the planners
  • 00:13:25
    because it's real. You see people all
  • 00:13:27
    the time on all the all the Facebook
  • 00:13:28
    groups saying, "I'm coming up to I'm
  • 00:13:30
    coming up to Cans," you know, cuz
  • 00:13:31
    they're all deserting Victoria like, you
  • 00:13:33
    know, you wouldn't believe. Can't blame
  • 00:13:34
    them for that. Yeah. Deserting Victoria
  • 00:13:37
    and and Adelaide to a certain extent.
  • 00:13:38
    And they're coming up here and they and
  • 00:13:40
    they post, you know, okay, I'm coming up
  • 00:13:42
    here now. Where should I look to live?
  • 00:13:44
    And and and everybody writes back,
  • 00:13:46
    rental occupancy rates are less than 1%.
  • 00:13:48
    You know, you've got you've got bucklers
  • 00:13:50
    basically. You know, they get
  • 00:13:51
    disappointed, you know. Well, it's a big
  • 00:13:53
    issue right across Australia, but up
  • 00:13:55
    here like we're no exception. It's like
  • 00:13:57
    hence teeth, isn't it? Accommodation up
  • 00:13:58
    here. Okay, let's go. Staying in Palm
  • 00:14:01
    Cove. Then the other thing I wanted to
  • 00:14:03
    mention is the or ask about is if
  • 00:14:05
    there's any news on you know the jetty
  • 00:14:08
    area and double island or what the safe
  • 00:14:10
    harbor or whatever whatever the various
  • 00:14:12
    groups are proposing for that time.
  • 00:14:14
    Yeah, there's a lot of passionate people
  • 00:14:16
    in Park Grove which and we know a lot of
  • 00:14:17
    them. And you guys probably know a lot
  • 00:14:19
    of them, too. And it's great that
  • 00:14:20
    they're passionate. We We had Gary Hunt,
  • 00:14:22
    who's from Hunt Design, come up with a
  • 00:14:24
    concept. I think you were there that
  • 00:14:25
    night. I wasn't, actually. I missed it.
  • 00:14:27
    Yeah. Yeah. I heard the outcome. There
  • 00:14:30
    was a lot of venom. A lot of anger. But
  • 00:14:33
    um but anyway, he just he come up with a
  • 00:14:35
    concept and he's he said, "What about
  • 00:14:36
    having a lagoon here?" because if Double
  • 00:14:38
    Island cuz it's been taken back by the
  • 00:14:40
    state of off fortune holdings um and
  • 00:14:43
    they're they're having expression of
  • 00:14:44
    interest right now. So it's out to
  • 00:14:46
    tender and I know that the Morris Group
  • 00:14:48
    is one of the people that have put a
  • 00:14:49
    tender in and he's got Polaris Island.
  • 00:14:52
    He's got um Orpheus Island, Mount
  • 00:14:53
    Mullingan Station. He does a lot there's
  • 00:14:55
    a lot of other people have put tenders
  • 00:14:57
    in too but if we get a good operator in
  • 00:14:59
    at Double Island then what Gary was
  • 00:15:01
    saying is you're going to need Palm Cove
  • 00:15:03
    to be operational, you know, have a
  • 00:15:04
    function. I mean, I wouldn't I if I was
  • 00:15:07
    looking at Palm Island as an not Palm
  • 00:15:09
    Island, Double Island, double island as
  • 00:15:11
    a renamed it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Palm
  • 00:15:13
    Islands off our town. Yeah. Um, if I was
  • 00:15:18
    going to invest my money in there, I'd
  • 00:15:19
    want to make sure that people get easy
  • 00:15:21
    access to that island 100%. And so
  • 00:15:24
    that's that's why Gary Hunt come up with
  • 00:15:25
    a concept and a lot of people got really
  • 00:15:27
    angry because he put a lagoon in his
  • 00:15:29
    concept, which is a great idea. I think
  • 00:15:30
    it's a great idea, but you'd have to
  • 00:15:32
    move the caravan park and a lot of
  • 00:15:33
    people are attached to it. But anyway,
  • 00:15:35
    he was just putting a concept out there
  • 00:15:36
    and got attacked uh viciously over it.
  • 00:15:38
    But um I've been talking So I had Mark
  • 00:15:41
    and this is breaking news actually.
  • 00:15:42
    You're the first person to know to hear
  • 00:15:43
    this. So um well sorry the first public
  • 00:15:46
    person to hear this. I've been talking
  • 00:15:48
    to uh TTNQ Mark Olsen called me probably
  • 00:15:51
    about a week ago only. And TTNQ is what?
  • 00:15:53
    Uh Tourism Trop Tropical Tourism North
  • 00:15:55
    Queensland. I mean I know what it is but
  • 00:15:57
    somebody people listening Victoria or
  • 00:15:59
    whatever. Yeah. Tourism tropical North
  • 00:16:00
    Queensland. So they're the big uh
  • 00:16:02
    tourism body uh that does from like um I
  • 00:16:05
    think they do from Mission Beach all the
  • 00:16:06
    way to the torist straight and out to
  • 00:16:08
    the Northern Territory border. Um canes
  • 00:16:10
    is obviously their main hub. Cans Port
  • 00:16:12
    Douglas uh focus area because all boats
  • 00:16:15
    rise in a high tide. You got to get
  • 00:16:16
    people here. But um he called me last
  • 00:16:18
    week or 10 days ago and he said he goes
  • 00:16:20
    hold I've been told by someone in main
  • 00:16:22
    roads cuz the jetty at Palm Co is owned
  • 00:16:25
    by the Department of Transport main
  • 00:16:27
    roads and um Marine Safety Queensland
  • 00:16:29
    MSQ uh but council is responsible for
  • 00:16:32
    the maintenance. We get paid to do the
  • 00:16:34
    maintenance on it by the state and so
  • 00:16:36
    cleaning it and everything else but the
  • 00:16:37
    structural integrity any structural
  • 00:16:39
    damage is the responsibility of the
  • 00:16:40
    state. And he goes, "Someone told him
  • 00:16:42
    that um the boats can go there, like you
  • 00:16:45
    know, Great Adventures, Quicksilver, all
  • 00:16:46
    these places." And boats can go, they
  • 00:16:48
    used to when they first started in the '
  • 00:16:50
    90s. They used to go there cuz that's
  • 00:16:51
    what jetties are built for. They're not
  • 00:16:52
    just built for fishing. That's right.
  • 00:16:53
    But we've we've always been told I've
  • 00:16:55
    always heard that because of safety
  • 00:16:56
    issues, they've stopped doing it. Now,
  • 00:16:59
    he said, "O someone's told me that um
  • 00:17:02
    all they need is a is a permit off
  • 00:17:04
    council." And I said, "That doesn't
  • 00:17:05
    sound right to me cuz it doesn't why
  • 00:17:07
    would counsel be involved in anything on
  • 00:17:08
    the water?" But anyway, I um I said I'd
  • 00:17:11
    look into it. So I made some phone
  • 00:17:12
    calls, made a lot of phone calls
  • 00:17:13
    actually, and end up getting on onto
  • 00:17:15
    someone, an officer in Brisbane from
  • 00:17:17
    DTMR, and I found out a lot of
  • 00:17:19
    information. One, boats can use it.
  • 00:17:21
    Yeah. So that and and the I said, well,
  • 00:17:23
    it does get a bit rough at times though.
  • 00:17:25
    The southeast of these get really rough
  • 00:17:26
    at times. Um but I'll get on to some
  • 00:17:28
    information about that, too. But anyway,
  • 00:17:30
    right now, council is the one that has
  • 00:17:32
    to give the permit, which no one at
  • 00:17:34
    council knows about. So the
  • 00:17:35
    communication has been terrible as well
  • 00:17:37
    I think the last government was very
  • 00:17:38
    hard to work I know for a fact the last
  • 00:17:40
    government was very hard to work with we
  • 00:17:42
    from from from elected person to elected
  • 00:17:44
    person from officer to bureaucrat it was
  • 00:17:46
    they were very standoffish and it was a
  • 00:17:49
    patriarchal like we're the parent you
  • 00:17:51
    have a child go in the corner that's all
  • 00:17:53
    changed and I'll get on to that when we
  • 00:17:54
    talk about Cora Beach how that
  • 00:17:55
    relationship's changed which is an
  • 00:17:57
    awesome thing for the community but but
  • 00:18:00
    anyway no one at council knows that we
  • 00:18:02
    can give permits for that I found out
  • 00:18:04
    I've got all the information from Main
  • 00:18:05
    Roads. We absolutely can. They said,
  • 00:18:08
    "And because it's a jetty, it's built
  • 00:18:10
    for that. You'd get your permit within 2
  • 00:18:12
    days." So, I've given that information
  • 00:18:13
    to Mark Olsen. We've given that to Brie
  • 00:18:15
    James. Um, and it looks like there's
  • 00:18:18
    already some activity, some people that
  • 00:18:19
    want to bring boats back there to do
  • 00:18:21
    nighttime dinner cruises and stuff.
  • 00:18:22
    Excellent. I'm not going to say who it
  • 00:18:23
    is. Yeah, that would be fantastic. But
  • 00:18:25
    that's a real thing that could happen
  • 00:18:26
    here. I guess who it is this year. Yeah.
  • 00:18:28
    But anyway, um, but that would be great.
  • 00:18:30
    Any activity for Palm Co is awesome.
  • 00:18:32
    That's breaking news, especially later
  • 00:18:33
    in the evening. Absolutely. When it
  • 00:18:35
    comes down, but I also talked to this
  • 00:18:37
    representative at Main Roads and I asked
  • 00:18:40
    him um I asked him what ever happened to
  • 00:18:42
    the studies the last government. Craig
  • 00:18:44
    Crawford was the last member for Baron
  • 00:18:46
    and he did get Main Roads to look into
  • 00:18:48
    some form of wave mitigation to help
  • 00:18:50
    with the southeasterly and I know Gary
  • 00:18:52
    Hunt was talking about the Rock Groins.
  • 00:18:54
    Uh what I've been told from Brisbane is
  • 00:18:56
    Breto that's that's not going to happen.
  • 00:18:57
    Um it's it's part of the Great Bay Reef
  • 00:18:59
    Marine Park. That's right. It is north
  • 00:19:01
    of Triny Beach that it's federal that So
  • 00:19:03
    the Great Bay Reef Marine Park Authority
  • 00:19:05
    is a federal federal waters. Yeah. Cuz
  • 00:19:07
    they got the Pippy they got the Pippy
  • 00:19:09
    grounds at Clifton. They're not going to
  • 00:19:10
    got all kinds of issues. So he goes he
  • 00:19:12
    goes environmental um anything can be
  • 00:19:14
    overcome, but it would take
  • 00:19:16
    multi-millions of dollars, a lot of
  • 00:19:17
    years. And he goes, "It's unrealistic
  • 00:19:19
    that you'd ever get a groin built
  • 00:19:20
    there." He goes, "But we've looked at
  • 00:19:22
    wave mitigation." He goes, and I said,
  • 00:19:23
    "What ever happened to that?" Because I
  • 00:19:24
    know before the election you guys were
  • 00:19:26
    doing a study. He goes, "We've completed
  • 00:19:28
    the study. We gave it to the last
  • 00:19:30
    government. They never brought it out."
  • 00:19:31
    And but this new government, he goes,
  • 00:19:32
    "No one's asked for it. All we need is
  • 00:19:34
    an official letter." So, I've written an
  • 00:19:36
    official letter and we're going to find
  • 00:19:37
    cuz what they've come up with is wave
  • 00:19:39
    screens. Now, they're not going to
  • 00:19:40
    attach to the jetty because if you
  • 00:19:42
    attach to the jetty, you can affect the
  • 00:19:43
    integrity of the structure. The jetty
  • 00:19:45
    down. So, these wave screens, they're
  • 00:19:47
    not going to 100% fix all the problems
  • 00:19:48
    with the southeasterlys, but they will
  • 00:19:50
    do a lot they'll slow it down a lot to
  • 00:19:51
    make it a lot safer. the northerlys you
  • 00:19:54
    won't have any protection at all with
  • 00:19:55
    the wave screens but the northerlys
  • 00:19:57
    aren't as bad as about three or four
  • 00:19:58
    months a year you get them a couple bad
  • 00:20:00
    days but also I asked him I said so if
  • 00:20:02
    council give the permit they the
  • 00:20:05
    liability what if someone it pulls up
  • 00:20:07
    the southeasteries or norleys someone
  • 00:20:09
    falls in or whatever it breaks the leg
  • 00:20:11
    who's responsible and he goes no the
  • 00:20:13
    onus is always on the owner of the boat
  • 00:20:15
    whether it's private or commercial
  • 00:20:16
    contractor so um but anyway that's
  • 00:20:18
    really exciting news it is so what we
  • 00:20:20
    need to do is with the state government
  • 00:20:22
    They um they're looking at obviously the
  • 00:20:24
    Wanged Getty Trail. Yeah. They're
  • 00:20:25
    looking at Double Island. They've got a
  • 00:20:26
    tender out now. Yeah. They are going to
  • 00:20:28
    be spending money in and around the Palm
  • 00:20:29
    Cove area. So, we as a council um we've
  • 00:20:32
    talked to all the councils and the
  • 00:20:33
    mayor. We've got with um with Bri and
  • 00:20:35
    the state. We're saying, "Well, we're
  • 00:20:36
    going to spend money there too over the
  • 00:20:37
    coming years. How about we align our
  • 00:20:39
    what we're doing and get a better
  • 00:20:41
    outcome overall rather than you doing
  • 00:20:42
    your things, us doing us things, and
  • 00:20:44
    it's all ad hoc. Let's work together.
  • 00:20:46
    Let's let's try and elevate Palm Co."
  • 00:20:48
    So, that's that's the plan. But if we
  • 00:20:50
    can start getting some activity with the
  • 00:20:51
    boats there, um I mean that's that's
  • 00:20:53
    going to increase tourism. Who knows if
  • 00:20:56
    we could ever get Quicksilver then back.
  • 00:20:57
    Maybe it's not commercially viable for
  • 00:20:58
    them. Maybe that's why they stop. Maybe
  • 00:21:00
    not. But they're allowed to right now.
  • 00:21:01
    They're allowed to stop there. So that
  • 00:21:03
    was very interesting news. And like I
  • 00:21:05
    said, you're the first one to publicly
  • 00:21:06
    hear about it. Yeah. Oh wow. That's
  • 00:21:07
    that's that's very interesting, isn't
  • 00:21:09
    it? Yeah. Yeah. It's exciting. Okay,
  • 00:21:10
    let's carry on then. That's good news.
  • 00:21:12
    And Iron Man's next weekend, too, guys,
  • 00:21:13
    at Palm Co. Iron Man. Yeah, I'm going to
  • 00:21:14
    actually go down and do some uh video of
  • 00:21:16
    the Iron Man. You'll see me press on the
  • 00:21:18
    horn for the start of the race. What
  • 00:21:20
    time does it start? 4:00. Oh, no. No,
  • 00:21:21
    no. I'll be down there probably at 5:00.
  • 00:21:23
    But no, the first race starts at like I
  • 00:21:25
    think 6 or 6:15 and then the next one's
  • 00:21:27
    at like 7. This is on Sunday. On Sunday?
  • 00:21:30
    Yeah. Next Sunday. I'll be I'll be down
  • 00:21:31
    there doing some filming. I think cuz I
  • 00:21:33
    think it'll be exciting. I'm sure people
  • 00:21:35
    interstate want to or overseas want to
  • 00:21:36
    see it as well. Oh, it's fantastic.
  • 00:21:38
    Yeah, absolutely. You got a lot of
  • 00:21:39
    people looking at the channel from
  • 00:21:41
    Victoria want to come up. Yeah, that's
  • 00:21:42
    what makes them want to come up. Where
  • 00:21:44
    else would you want to be in winter than
  • 00:21:46
    right here? Have a look around. is
  • 00:21:47
    amazing, isn't it? Yeah. Okay. So, we
  • 00:21:49
    we've covered the Wangetti, the zoo,
  • 00:21:50
    opal uh double island and so on. So, I'm
  • 00:21:53
    I'm assuming that then when the guy when
  • 00:21:55
    the the guy or the company take over a
  • 00:21:58
    double island, if they do, they'll get a
  • 00:21:59
    permit to run a boat. Well, yeah, you'd
  • 00:22:02
    imagine they do that, too. So, um and
  • 00:22:03
    the I actually talked to Chris Morris
  • 00:22:05
    the other day. I got to meet him. Um he
  • 00:22:08
    said, "Look, he's got no issues. Even
  • 00:22:09
    Even Blue Even um Yorkies know Marina is
  • 00:22:12
    not too far away." I think I think it
  • 00:22:14
    is. I think it is, too. I mean, you know
  • 00:22:15
    what it's like here. They don't even
  • 00:22:17
    want to walk. People don't even want to
  • 00:22:18
    walk from, you know, 500 meters, do
  • 00:22:21
    they? I can't get a park in front of my
  • 00:22:22
    pie shop. I'll drive 20ks to the next
  • 00:22:24
    bakery. Yeah. Hey, while we're in Palm
  • 00:22:26
    Cove, I will say one other thing which
  • 00:22:27
    has been finished. And I don't know if
  • 00:22:28
    you can walk down it. I'm going to do a
  • 00:22:30
    video, too. It's been years since I've
  • 00:22:32
    been in almost a decade. U people in
  • 00:22:34
    Vivas Road have always wanted a
  • 00:22:35
    footpath. I was going to ask you about
  • 00:22:37
    that. Yeah. It's such a long area. It
  • 00:22:38
    was so expensive. Um and then the the
  • 00:22:41
    state government were talking about
  • 00:22:42
    shutting off the highway there at some
  • 00:22:43
    stage. It's still in the plans, future
  • 00:22:45
    plans, but it's probably never going to
  • 00:22:46
    happen. But we got it done. We We got it
  • 00:22:49
    in the budget. We got it done. That
  • 00:22:50
    wasn't an easy thing to get done, guys.
  • 00:22:51
    I know there was a lot of impatient
  • 00:22:53
    people out there, and rightly so. It's
  • 00:22:55
    dangerous road to walk on with pram and
  • 00:22:56
    elderly, but we got the win. The wheels
  • 00:22:58
    of government turned slow. Um, how you
  • 00:23:01
    doing, guys? That was a fight. Um, I do
  • 00:23:03
    have a I do have a slight complaint from
  • 00:23:05
    somebody on that on that foot path. We
  • 00:23:07
    got the foot path then and there's
  • 00:23:08
    complaints. That's a complaint. Yeah.
  • 00:23:09
    So, I can be your first complaint. Yeah.
  • 00:23:11
    Yeah. Apparently, this person was
  • 00:23:13
    telling me that cuz I mentioned I'm
  • 00:23:14
    going to have a chat with uh with you
  • 00:23:16
    and I said he he said, "What are you
  • 00:23:18
    going to talk about?" So, I said, "I'll
  • 00:23:19
    run through these things." And I said,
  • 00:23:21
    and I think uh Brett wants to mention
  • 00:23:23
    something about the footpath as well.
  • 00:23:25
    So, I he said, "Which footpath?" The one
  • 00:23:27
    on Vivas Road. He said, "Oh, couldn't
  • 00:23:28
    you ask him this then?" Yeah.
  • 00:23:30
    Apparently, you know the crossovers,
  • 00:23:32
    that's where your driveway comes over
  • 00:23:33
    the council part of the land to get to
  • 00:23:35
    the to the road, right? It's called a
  • 00:23:37
    crossover.
  • 00:23:39
    Apparently there's you seem to have gone
  • 00:23:41
    through every crossover except the bad
  • 00:23:43
    one and and the the footpath stopped
  • 00:23:45
    either side. It's a crossover that's
  • 00:23:47
    made of rickety old paving stones or
  • 00:23:50
    something and and and and council have
  • 00:23:52
    sort of stopped either side and haven't
  • 00:23:54
    had Oh, I'll have to go look at that.
  • 00:23:56
    And apparently it's a rickety one, not
  • 00:23:57
    the but all the other ones apparently
  • 00:23:59
    are good. Yeah. Well, no, I'll have a
  • 00:24:00
    look at that cuz no said apart from that
  • 00:24:02
    it's good cuz we want wheelchairs. You
  • 00:24:03
    want all ability access
  • 00:24:05
    and you wouldn't get wheelchair across
  • 00:24:07
    there. I'll go for a drive this
  • 00:24:08
    afternoon and uh and check it out. But
  • 00:24:10
    no, that I imagine I mean the guys are
  • 00:24:12
    awesome. I imagine that's either an
  • 00:24:14
    oversight or they're coming back later
  • 00:24:16
    to do something else. That's what I
  • 00:24:17
    said. I said they're probably coming
  • 00:24:18
    back later to Yeah, they won't leave it
  • 00:24:19
    like that. And if Yeah, if they do, I'll
  • 00:24:21
    slap them and if if I'm wrong, they'll
  • 00:24:23
    slap. Okay, that's that. That's good.
  • 00:24:24
    That's good. Well done. Well done. So,
  • 00:24:27
    continue on Viva's Road, the toilet next
  • 00:24:29
    to Viva's Cafe. I noticed there's some I
  • 00:24:32
    I meant to take a a video of it and put
  • 00:24:34
    it on this part of the chat, but I never
  • 00:24:35
    got around to it. But the it looks like
  • 00:24:38
    somebody's in there. I saw electricians
  • 00:24:40
    in there the other day with their vans.
  • 00:24:41
    Looks like it's in that like culdeac
  • 00:24:43
    area, isn't it? Yeah, it's that
  • 00:24:44
    culde-sac area is where it's going to
  • 00:24:45
    go. But I was we've been obviously
  • 00:24:47
    working on the budget. Um we're going to
  • 00:24:48
    deliver it on June 25th, the new budget
  • 00:24:50
    and it's in the do budget documents, but
  • 00:24:52
    it's been pushed out um to year I think
  • 00:24:55
    year five or six. So it's still 5 years
  • 00:24:56
    away before they build that toilet at
  • 00:24:58
    this stage. I'm doing everything I can
  • 00:25:00
    to bring I'll have to hold on then.
  • 00:25:01
    Well, yeah. Well, because they've got
  • 00:25:02
    money put in the budget for this next
  • 00:25:04
    year to fix up the the middle toilets
  • 00:25:06
    there at Peppers. So, we're going to
  • 00:25:08
    we're going to bring those back up. The
  • 00:25:09
    one next to Chalk D. Yeah, they're a
  • 00:25:11
    bit dirty. So, we're going to we're
  • 00:25:13
    going to seats on it though. Unlike some
  • 00:25:15
    of these other toilets. Yeah. But, so
  • 00:25:17
    toilets are expensive, guys. Like to
  • 00:25:19
    build a brand new toilet, it can be half
  • 00:25:20
    a million dollars or more in some
  • 00:25:22
    instances. Uh which is like how can it
  • 00:25:24
    be that expense for a toilet? You can
  • 00:25:25
    build a whole house for less than that
  • 00:25:27
    with toilets in it. when it's a seat
  • 00:25:28
    warmers, you know, those seat warmers
  • 00:25:30
    you put on, mate. It's we need we need a
  • 00:25:32
    department of government efficiency like
  • 00:25:33
    that in America looking at why are
  • 00:25:35
    things so expensive at government and um
  • 00:25:37
    there is there is reasons some reasons
  • 00:25:39
    for it, but I'm like that's a
  • 00:25:40
    ridiculous. They can put those Japanese
  • 00:25:42
    toilets in, you know, that where they
  • 00:25:43
    just squat over them. Yes. No, you know,
  • 00:25:45
    the normal toilets, but you press the
  • 00:25:46
    buttons and it and it washes. Oh, the
  • 00:25:48
    bed. Yeah, that would be lovely. It's
  • 00:25:51
    just another It's just another thing to
  • 00:25:52
    break down. Maintenance bill. Yeah.
  • 00:25:53
    Maintenance. No. So, we won't be putting
  • 00:25:55
    them in.
  • 00:25:56
    Yeah, that toilet at this stage is five
  • 00:25:57
    or six years away on the southern end of
  • 00:25:59
    Beaver's Road. But I am trying to bring
  • 00:26:01
    it forward cuz like I said, it's about
  • 00:26:02
    half a million dollars cuz it's it's a
  • 00:26:03
    bit of an anomaly down the end, isn't
  • 00:26:05
    it? Where you got toilets in the caravan
  • 00:26:06
    park up at the north, you got toilets
  • 00:26:08
    near the surf place in the uh surf club
  • 00:26:11
    in the in the center and then you you've
  • 00:26:14
    got nothing down south. No, it took some
  • 00:26:15
    of the restaurants they don't have
  • 00:26:16
    toilets. Yeah, it took us years to find
  • 00:26:18
    out a place to put it cuz everyone
  • 00:26:19
    wanted a toilet, but no one wanted it in
  • 00:26:20
    front of their business. That's right.
  • 00:26:22
    So, but we found a place to put it to
  • 00:26:24
    the money. No, you cannot screen it. You
  • 00:26:26
    know, it is going to be screened with
  • 00:26:28
    vegetation. I I honestly I think I can
  • 00:26:31
    get it brought forward. Um I don't like
  • 00:26:32
    making promises. At this stage, I think
  • 00:26:34
    it's too far out. But this is another
  • 00:26:36
    thing. While we're working with the
  • 00:26:37
    state government, what do you put money
  • 00:26:38
    into? We've got money in the budget.
  • 00:26:40
    Let's bring it forward and let's align
  • 00:26:41
    our works cuz the other thing is if they
  • 00:26:43
    do work down in Palm Cove and then we
  • 00:26:44
    start doing work, they finish then we do
  • 00:26:46
    ours. The disruption is twice as long.
  • 00:26:48
    So you want to plan it together. So if
  • 00:26:50
    there's going to be a disruption, let's
  • 00:26:51
    all get in do it at once. So these are
  • 00:26:53
    all conversations we're having. I can't
  • 00:26:54
    make promises now, but I'm doing
  • 00:26:56
    everything I can to try and get that
  • 00:26:58
    toilet built. It needs to be done
  • 00:26:59
    quicker. It's like it's it's it's up at
  • 00:27:02
    the moment. My priority my priority list
  • 00:27:04
    is really long and that is up there.
  • 00:27:05
    It's not number one, but it is it it
  • 00:27:07
    does need to happen. Yeah. Okay, moving
  • 00:27:09
    on then. Where did I get to? We've done
  • 00:27:11
    Palm Cove. Okay, let's go down to
  • 00:27:12
    Clifton Beach. I noticed that you you or
  • 00:27:15
    I did a video, I don't know whether you
  • 00:27:16
    saw it on the channel about the soil the
  • 00:27:19
    soil the uh sand mitigation sand erosion
  • 00:27:22
    mitigation plan and I showed people
  • 00:27:24
    where it was, but I noticed that
  • 00:27:25
    everybody's fenced off the they've gone
  • 00:27:27
    a bit crazy with the red with the red
  • 00:27:29
    barriers and taped off the whole of the
  • 00:27:31
    playground there. Yeah. Well, you I
  • 00:27:33
    hadn't seen it. You told me about off
  • 00:27:35
    air this morning. Um I'll go up and
  • 00:27:36
    check it out and I will ask the
  • 00:27:38
    question. I imagine it's all
  • 00:27:39
    occupational health and safety. I
  • 00:27:41
    imagine they don't want kids running
  • 00:27:42
    around. We're about to have some huge
  • 00:27:44
    trucks rolling in with big boulders. Um,
  • 00:27:46
    a lot of work's going on. There will be
  • 00:27:47
    some trees that get removed and cut
  • 00:27:49
    down. I think they've already done that.
  • 00:27:50
    Yeah. Yeah. And then they're gonna they
  • 00:27:51
    will do replantings. Um, but we need
  • 00:27:54
    access to the beach and all that. I I
  • 00:27:56
    just think it's maybe it's it's safety
  • 00:27:58
    on steroids, but you'd rather be
  • 00:28:00
    overprotective and over safe than just
  • 00:28:02
    skip something, have a kid run around a
  • 00:28:03
    playground and then something happen.
  • 00:28:04
    So, I believe that's what it will be.
  • 00:28:06
    Well, I suggest that rather than do it
  • 00:28:08
    that way, they should just close off the
  • 00:28:09
    the car park, you know, just close it
  • 00:28:10
    off. Just close it off. Yeah. at the at
  • 00:28:12
    the road entrance, you know. Yeah, I
  • 00:28:13
    haven't I haven't been up and seen it
  • 00:28:14
    and I haven't talked to the boys. Come
  • 00:28:16
    out and tape up everything. Yeah, from
  • 00:28:18
    the entrances. I should have gone up and
  • 00:28:19
    seen I I've been so this last two weeks
  • 00:28:21
    I've been so flat stick. I did go for a
  • 00:28:22
    drive there um I think a week and a half
  • 00:28:24
    ago and it wasn't closed off at that
  • 00:28:26
    stage. So it must have just happened
  • 00:28:27
    within last when are they likely to
  • 00:28:28
    start with the the boulders? It's this
  • 00:28:30
    month. So it's it's any day now. It's
  • 00:28:32
    any week now cuz I notic you've removed
  • 00:28:34
    the trees from the what the Clifton
  • 00:28:36
    Beach uh playground area and you've
  • 00:28:38
    moved removed the trees on the other two
  • 00:28:40
    areas. In fact, when in the videos you
  • 00:28:41
    were just doing the last one with the
  • 00:28:43
    tree removal. Yeah. Um, so I'd imagine
  • 00:28:46
    they'd be starting. Yeah, they'll be
  • 00:28:47
    starting any day. Yeah. I like I said, I
  • 00:28:49
    went down there about 10 days ago to try
  • 00:28:50
    and make a video myself. I'm like, "Oh,
  • 00:28:52
    they haven't started nothing yet." So,
  • 00:28:53
    it's all it's all happened in the last
  • 00:28:55
    few days. And Okay. So, you I think you
  • 00:28:57
    mentioned to me ages ago that that
  • 00:28:59
    you've done something similar to
  • 00:29:00
    hollowways. We've done the exact Yeah.
  • 00:29:01
    the exact same three headlands that are
  • 00:29:03
    hollows. So, it's built like a mushroom.
  • 00:29:05
    So rather than being a rock wall or
  • 00:29:07
    groin or groin that goes straight out
  • 00:29:09
    perpendicular if you do that and I'm not
  • 00:29:12
    an engineer but I talk to a lot of
  • 00:29:13
    engineers they say you get sand build up
  • 00:29:15
    on one side but it eats away at the
  • 00:29:17
    other and the rock wall the same thing
  • 00:29:18
    and and the one at Clifton the it eats
  • 00:29:20
    out at the northern end so they're
  • 00:29:22
    making these like mushroom headlands
  • 00:29:24
    it's kind of similar to the one at Ellis
  • 00:29:25
    Beach has been there since the ' 50s or
  • 00:29:27
    60s. How's it how's it worked? Has it
  • 00:29:28
    worked well? Yeah, it's worked well at
  • 00:29:29
    Ellis and apparently the ones at
  • 00:29:30
    Holloways are going well now. The ones
  • 00:29:32
    at Hollowways though they after they
  • 00:29:34
    built them they put sand nourishment in
  • 00:29:36
    behind it. So we haven't had king tides
  • 00:29:38
    and everything since. So it's it's still
  • 00:29:40
    but the engineers are saying this is
  • 00:29:41
    what they think the bees need. They
  • 00:29:43
    think it's working. Yeah cuz it's not
  • 00:29:45
    eating out on either side. It's the sand
  • 00:29:46
    is building up and we're hoping that
  • 00:29:48
    it'll actually it'll help down here at
  • 00:29:49
    Quir as well um by that sand being held
  • 00:29:52
    up at Clifton Beach cuz sand has come
  • 00:29:55
    back. Mother nature's brought it back at
  • 00:29:56
    Palm Cove at Trinity Beach and at
  • 00:29:58
    Clifton just recently. I thought the
  • 00:29:59
    council had been there with the trucks
  • 00:30:01
    dumping sand cuz it's looked like it's
  • 00:30:03
    all mounded up almost about a meter
  • 00:30:04
    high. I made a comment on one of the
  • 00:30:06
    videos looks like council have been here
  • 00:30:07
    putting sand in but any is mother nature
  • 00:30:10
    and it's awesome but but Cora Beach
  • 00:30:12
    missed out. They haven't had we haven't
  • 00:30:13
    had that kind of sand come back yet. So
  • 00:30:16
    and that's when we get to Cora Beach
  • 00:30:17
    I'll tell you the update for there. But
  • 00:30:18
    no, so Clifton Beach works imminent any
  • 00:30:21
    day now. Um and I'm really excited cuz
  • 00:30:23
    it it was a great project at Holloways.
  • 00:30:25
    Apparently it seems to be working. It's
  • 00:30:27
    only been brand new there for a few a
  • 00:30:28
    few months now. We'll see what happens
  • 00:30:30
    at Clifton, but if the engineers are
  • 00:30:32
    right, um I should be on a winner. Oh,
  • 00:30:34
    good. Okay, let's get on to Koara then.
  • 00:30:36
    We're at Kuara now. You know, as you saw
  • 00:30:38
    when we when we came in, I showed you
  • 00:30:40
    the beach and everything. It's
  • 00:30:41
    beautiful. I love it. This beach when
  • 00:30:42
    the when the sea's out, it's nice and
  • 00:30:44
    flat all the way out. It's the best one
  • 00:30:46
    for Clifton's more like a It's a ski
  • 00:30:48
    slope, you know. Yeah. Yeah, it is. One
  • 00:30:49
    of my mates broke his neck literally and
  • 00:30:51
    he's in a quadriplegic now at Clifton
  • 00:30:53
    from running and diving in because of
  • 00:30:54
    the gutters there. Porov Beach and
  • 00:30:56
    York's Knob don't have the gutters. See,
  • 00:30:58
    Clifton really gets undermined, doesn't
  • 00:31:00
    it, by the ocean. I mean, Palm Cove, not
  • 00:31:02
    a little bit. And here it's it's flat,
  • 00:31:05
    you know, it's almost like mud flats in
  • 00:31:07
    the in the city, you know. Stand up
  • 00:31:08
    paddle boarding and kayaking here. And
  • 00:31:10
    you get nice waves that break way out
  • 00:31:12
    and they roll in. And when you're on a
  • 00:31:13
    when you're on a surf ski, you can catch
  • 00:31:14
    them all in. It's Now, Kora Beach is is
  • 00:31:16
    amazing. So, it's amazing. So, I love
  • 00:31:18
    the place and it's dear to my heart.
  • 00:31:19
    Kawara Beach. So, I've been going on and
  • 00:31:21
    banging on about, you know, it needs
  • 00:31:23
    some TLC. He probably I probably told
  • 00:31:25
    you as well for the last 2 and a half
  • 00:31:26
    years some TLC cuz the place just looks
  • 00:31:30
    dirty doesn't it? I mean it's not that I
  • 00:31:33
    mean I come down I I do these walks a
  • 00:31:35
    lot and I I see the council here
  • 00:31:37
    cleaning the barbecues cleaning the
  • 00:31:39
    toilets with the blower around doing
  • 00:31:41
    everything new playground the same as
  • 00:31:44
    they do all the at Clifton the same as
  • 00:31:45
    they do at the other parts of Cook Cove
  • 00:31:47
    you know so it's not for want of effort
  • 00:31:49
    but it just I don't know it just doesn't
  • 00:31:52
    doesn't have that impact you know it
  • 00:31:53
    seems to be dirty you know well because
  • 00:31:55
    when you go for a walk like and we could
  • 00:31:56
    see and you probably shown them we have
  • 00:31:58
    done sand nourishment here a few months
  • 00:32:00
    ago and we've actually a Few weeks ago,
  • 00:32:02
    we're allowed to um get excavators and
  • 00:32:04
    push sand from low tide to high tide.
  • 00:32:06
    And we've done sand ocean in the past
  • 00:32:07
    because this place here, this concrete
  • 00:32:09
    slab almost got undermined after Jasper
  • 00:32:12
    then again in February. And uh it's
  • 00:32:14
    you've got all these dead trees.
  • 00:32:15
    Council's come down and if tree was
  • 00:32:17
    looking unsafe, they were allowed to cut
  • 00:32:19
    it down, but then they had to leave the
  • 00:32:20
    tree. Leave it. That's ridiculous. And
  • 00:32:22
    you probably got videos of that. Have
  • 00:32:23
    you got videos of it? Yeah. So, and it's
  • 00:32:25
    been terrible. And you got all these
  • 00:32:26
    people that live here and all these
  • 00:32:27
    locals come down saying, "Mate, this is
  • 00:32:28
    a beautiful beach. Why are we being
  • 00:32:30
    treated like some remote wilderness
  • 00:32:31
    beach with the trees? Why can't you
  • 00:32:33
    remove them? And the previous government
  • 00:32:35
    and I sat in Craig Crawford's office
  • 00:32:37
    with different department um bureaucrats
  • 00:32:39
    with council officers there and got told
  • 00:32:41
    no, you can't touch them because that's
  • 00:32:43
    a new home. Sedges can get in there.
  • 00:32:44
    Yeah. For the crabs. Yeah. Crabs and
  • 00:32:46
    marine life. It can be a new home for
  • 00:32:47
    them. And I'm like, this is mental. But
  • 00:32:49
    it doesn't. You don't do this at the
  • 00:32:51
    Gold Coast. You don't do this at
  • 00:32:52
    Sunshine Coast, any other beach in the
  • 00:32:53
    state. You don't really do it at Palm
  • 00:32:54
    Cove either, really. No, that's right.
  • 00:32:55
    No, exactly. So I I went off my I went
  • 00:32:57
    off my tits about it, you know, and but
  • 00:32:59
    I didn't get anywhere with the last
  • 00:33:00
    government. So this current uh
  • 00:33:02
    government that changed um I got on to
  • 00:33:03
    Brie James. She did send a letter on
  • 00:33:05
    behalf of residents down here to the
  • 00:33:07
    minister for department of environment
  • 00:33:09
    tourism. He sent a letter back to the
  • 00:33:11
    residents with some conflicting
  • 00:33:13
    information which got them very angry
  • 00:33:14
    saying Brett is a liar. It's all on
  • 00:33:16
    council. It's all on council and it's
  • 00:33:18
    not council needs permission off the
  • 00:33:20
    state to do any works below the high
  • 00:33:21
    tide mark. And um but anyway, we got
  • 00:33:24
    through that when I I met with the
  • 00:33:25
    residents down here and said I explained
  • 00:33:27
    to her no I got I got letters from
  • 00:33:28
    council saying this is how it works and
  • 00:33:31
    but then Bri so she took it a step
  • 00:33:32
    further Brie James and she wrote to the
  • 00:33:34
    minister for department of fisheries
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    which I'm like department of fisheries
  • 00:33:38
    you know you got department of natural
  • 00:33:39
    resources m energy you got department of
  • 00:33:41
    environment and tourism department of
  • 00:33:43
    fisheries you got the great barrier for
  • 00:33:44
    me that's why they call red tape it's
  • 00:33:45
    red tape everywhere but to Bree no to
  • 00:33:47
    Bree's credit she's been awesome to work
  • 00:33:49
    with she called up uh she wrote a letter
  • 00:33:50
    to the minister of department of
  • 00:33:51
    fisheries And all of a sudden, I had one
  • 00:33:53
    of the officers call me. And officers
  • 00:33:54
    don't usually call elected people cuz
  • 00:33:56
    they're not allowed to. Yeah. Unless
  • 00:33:57
    they got ministerial permission. Anyway,
  • 00:33:59
    he called me up and he goes, "Look, I
  • 00:34:00
    want to come down. I want you to show me
  • 00:34:02
    what what's going on at Quar Beach." And
  • 00:34:04
    I said, "That would be lovely, mate."
  • 00:34:05
    And the next week, they had three
  • 00:34:07
    officers here. We had two officers from
  • 00:34:09
    council, myself, so we had six of us,
  • 00:34:10
    and we walked the whole beach. And they
  • 00:34:12
    said, "Common sense prevailed," which is
  • 00:34:14
    right. He just, the guy said, "You know
  • 00:34:15
    what? You do need state permission, but
  • 00:34:18
    at a king tide, you know, which comes up
  • 00:34:21
    way up to here, any anytime you walk on
  • 00:34:24
    the sand is going to be a safety hazard.
  • 00:34:25
    So under the safety hazards, you can
  • 00:34:27
    just remove them. And so council just
  • 00:34:29
    have to write to them, tell them. So
  • 00:34:30
    we're going to come down and by June
  • 00:34:31
    27th, it'll all be removed. All that
  • 00:34:33
    dead wood that's been there for 2 and a
  • 00:34:34
    half years. Finally, we got some good
  • 00:34:37
    news for people living at Kawara Beach.
  • 00:34:39
    Breaking news. In fact, I'm going to
  • 00:34:40
    have a public meeting in the next week
  • 00:34:41
    or so. So that's again, you got two lots
  • 00:34:43
    of breaking news on here. But it's but
  • 00:34:45
    it's it's been I I appreciate all the um
  • 00:34:47
    the residents for working with us. I
  • 00:34:49
    know there's been some anger at times.
  • 00:34:51
    Uh and I've shared that frustration.
  • 00:34:53
    It's it's pissed me off. I'll be honest.
  • 00:34:55
    Like yeah, where was the common sense
  • 00:34:57
    for the last 2 and a half years? It just
  • 00:34:58
    took one guy to come down here, have a
  • 00:35:00
    look at it, and say, "No, no, you can
  • 00:35:01
    you can do this." And I'm like, "Well,
  • 00:35:02
    thank God." But anyway, so council will
  • 00:35:05
    come down here. We There will be some
  • 00:35:06
    other trees that Lover some of the palm
  • 00:35:08
    trees. They'll probably be cut down.
  • 00:35:10
    Yeah. But they will be quick and they're
  • 00:35:12
    weeds anyway. Yeah. They're going to
  • 00:35:13
    Well, they're not going to replace them
  • 00:35:14
    with palms cuz it's expensive to nut
  • 00:35:16
    them. It is. But there will be
  • 00:35:18
    replacement trees for everyone that's
  • 00:35:19
    come down. Not she cuz they look No, not
  • 00:35:21
    she. Yeah, they look a bit struggling.
  • 00:35:23
    Well, the nuts that come down, but
  • 00:35:25
    they're struggling and they make a mess.
  • 00:35:26
    Those Yeah, those little balls of pines
  • 00:35:28
    that they fall and the needles
  • 00:35:29
    everywhere. No, no, but we will be doing
  • 00:35:31
    replantings. The So, that's the that's
  • 00:35:33
    the immediate future. That's what we'll
  • 00:35:34
    be doing. Clean because it does need a
  • 00:35:36
    clean. I mean I as I said to you you
  • 00:35:39
    know over the over the the years or
  • 00:35:41
    months or whatever you know it's all
  • 00:35:43
    very well to let the trees there and and
  • 00:35:45
    council come along and saw them into
  • 00:35:47
    little bits and then the and the tide
  • 00:35:49
    takes them off so they become a boating
  • 00:35:50
    hazard become someone else somebody
  • 00:35:52
    else's boating hazard. I think no that's
  • 00:35:54
    not right that's not right do the real
  • 00:35:56
    thing you know get rid of them 100%.
  • 00:35:57
    Yeah, if it was a remote beach in the
  • 00:35:59
    wilderness, you get it. Falls over, you
  • 00:36:00
    live it there. But this is a public
  • 00:36:02
    beach. People live here. Half those
  • 00:36:03
    trees were planted by humans. You know,
  • 00:36:04
    it's like to look pretty. But but
  • 00:36:06
    anyway, that's that's the immediate good
  • 00:36:08
    news. In the short-term good news, the
  • 00:36:10
    the midterm is where Department of
  • 00:36:13
    Environment, Tourism, Science, and
  • 00:36:15
    Innovation, DETI, uh they applied, they
  • 00:36:18
    talked to council about and they've
  • 00:36:19
    applied through the DER funding, the
  • 00:36:21
    disaster relief fund to try and get um
  • 00:36:24
    sand nourishment. So, we're pushing sand
  • 00:36:26
    around. It's expensive putting
  • 00:36:28
    truckloads of sand here, especially when
  • 00:36:29
    it gets washed away the next week. Yeah.
  • 00:36:31
    But but the that is that's not 100%
  • 00:36:33
    guaranteed it's happening yet, but it's
  • 00:36:35
    sounding positive. So hopefully we can
  • 00:36:37
    after we clean all that up, we'll get
  • 00:36:38
    some sand dumped down here. And then the
  • 00:36:40
    third thing in the longer term, I'm
  • 00:36:41
    working with JCU, the state and council
  • 00:36:44
    on a plan for some beach rectification.
  • 00:36:46
    So some post and rail. So if we put post
  • 00:36:48
    and rail in, you only have certain
  • 00:36:50
    sections people can go down. That
  • 00:36:51
    protects the dunes and other areas
  • 00:36:53
    because you can see everyone just walks
  • 00:36:54
    down. But that's a longerterm plan. I
  • 00:36:56
    don't have any news on that. I I thought
  • 00:36:58
    I'd get some last week, but there might
  • 00:37:00
    be some good news coming real soon
  • 00:37:02
    collaborating with with JCU, with the
  • 00:37:04
    federal government, the state government
  • 00:37:05
    council. So, yeah. So, we'll all chip in
  • 00:37:07
    some money if it goes ahead. Kuar is
  • 00:37:08
    getting some action finally. Better late
  • 00:37:11
    than never. And it is late. I guarantee
  • 00:37:13
    you it's it's it's 2 and a half years
  • 00:37:15
    too late, but it's better late than
  • 00:37:17
    never. So, you heard it here. Yeah, you
  • 00:37:19
    heard it with Steo.
  • 00:37:21
    Okay. What's the next one? I got to try
  • 00:37:23
    and unlock this. Oh, it's let me unlock
  • 00:37:25
    it. That's good. Okay, I've done the
  • 00:37:26
    tidy up. Oh, they love Shack. Oh, they
  • 00:37:30
    love Shack up there, you know. That's
  • 00:37:32
    brilliant. I I want to take it over, but
  • 00:37:34
    it's on private lands. I know, but I
  • 00:37:35
    want to go and see this the the Chinese
  • 00:37:37
    lady as Taiwanese. Yeah. I want to go
  • 00:37:40
    and see her and say, can I take that
  • 00:37:41
    over? I've got any money, but maybe do
  • 00:37:43
    it as a cooperative. So, people, you
  • 00:37:45
    know, we have a cooperative and sell
  • 00:37:46
    shares or set up a company and set up
  • 00:37:48
    the love shadow. Everyone used to love
  • 00:37:50
    the beach for the beach hut. I I have
  • 00:37:52
    I've asked for her details and I've
  • 00:37:53
    asked council to write an email asking
  • 00:37:56
    what her plans are with it because
  • 00:37:58
    allegedly she doesn't want I can't talk
  • 00:37:59
    on her behalf. I've never met her. But
  • 00:38:00
    allegedly she's not interested in
  • 00:38:02
    keeping that going and I'm like well
  • 00:38:04
    yeah but other people would be. Yeah.
  • 00:38:06
    Yeah. But it's her private land. I know.
  • 00:38:07
    So it's either um cuz a lot of people
  • 00:38:08
    think it's council land. No it's not.
  • 00:38:10
    She's either got to lease out someone
  • 00:38:11
    else do it up or in my opinion take it
  • 00:38:13
    down cuz it's it's dilapidated. It's
  • 00:38:15
    falling. You can't leave it like it is.
  • 00:38:16
    And you kept recovering though. I went
  • 00:38:18
    I've been there. I kept recovering it.
  • 00:38:19
    The bones are good. All the all the
  • 00:38:21
    posts are good. Y the roof is is there
  • 00:38:24
    new roof. The containers there and the
  • 00:38:26
    and the and the pizza ovens, they're all
  • 00:38:28
    fine. They just need cleaning up. I
  • 00:38:30
    reckon you could take take it and put
  • 00:38:32
    the the chairs out there, mate. That's
  • 00:38:34
    fantastic cuz Kowara is if you look
  • 00:38:37
    around Cook Cove, I mean, you know this.
  • 00:38:39
    I'm teaching to suck eggs here, whatever
  • 00:38:41
    the saying is. But if you look at Cook
  • 00:38:42
    Cove here, Palm Cove gets the raw deal
  • 00:38:45
    because it gets the southeasterly
  • 00:38:47
    straight directly on shore. Cleftton
  • 00:38:49
    sort of gets it at a 45. We're protected
  • 00:38:51
    by Taylor Point. You're protected by
  • 00:38:53
    Taylor Point. Plus, the wind comes
  • 00:38:55
    parallel with the with the beach. So,
  • 00:38:56
    the love shack there is fantastic. Oh, I
  • 00:38:58
    used to love going down there myself. I
  • 00:38:59
    used to love it down there. Yeah. So, I
  • 00:39:01
    I I have been trying to get in contact
  • 00:39:02
    with her. I haven't met her yet. Um,
  • 00:39:05
    obviously, again, it's not the top of my
  • 00:39:07
    list, but it's on the list. And um but
  • 00:39:09
    no, I I just think it looks awful the
  • 00:39:11
    way it is. Well, hopefully she watches
  • 00:39:12
    this. I hope she at least she she's a
  • 00:39:14
    subscriber and she watches the channel
  • 00:39:16
    because yeah, it's a great thing for
  • 00:39:17
    locals and tourists alike. Um it's send
  • 00:39:19
    me an email. It's in the description.
  • 00:39:21
    Yeah. Nice. But no, so Kawari, we need
  • 00:39:24
    some TLC. It's getting some TLC. Um
  • 00:39:26
    excellent. And that's another thing we
  • 00:39:28
    need to fix up. Yeah. Yeah. Excellent.
  • 00:39:30
    Okay. So Trinity Beach, I've got um
  • 00:39:32
    we've got more road. So which comes into
  • 00:39:34
    the back of Taylor's Point. More road
  • 00:39:36
    there has been like Viva's road for a
  • 00:39:37
    long time. Really dangerous to walk on.
  • 00:39:39
    Cars park on both sides of the road.
  • 00:39:41
    People on pram, kids on bikes, they need
  • 00:39:43
    a footpath for years and years and
  • 00:39:45
    years. We finally got it and the works
  • 00:39:46
    are starting I think this week. Are they
  • 00:39:48
    doing are they doing any work over
  • 00:39:49
    there? Cuz at night if you look out here
  • 00:39:51
    there's lights all up. What's that for?
  • 00:39:53
    I met with Ordress the guy that owns
  • 00:39:54
    Taylor's Point. All those lights. B
  • 00:39:56
    James and I met with him last week I
  • 00:39:57
    think it was. And no, he puts the lights
  • 00:39:59
    on to to uplight the trees cuz he just
  • 00:40:01
    loves looking at at the nature and
  • 00:40:03
    beauty. Cuz everybody's asking me,
  • 00:40:04
    Steve, you know what's going on here?
  • 00:40:06
    What's what's what's with all his
  • 00:40:07
    lights? I said, I think it's the con the
  • 00:40:09
    the construction at Taylor Point. No,
  • 00:40:10
    he's not constructing anything. He's
  • 00:40:12
    Well, he's he's got equipment there cuz
  • 00:40:13
    he's in finding car bodies and put he's
  • 00:40:15
    got 13 tons of concrete, car bodies and
  • 00:40:18
    stuff stocked up there. So, we we
  • 00:40:20
    Everybody used it as a dumping ground.
  • 00:40:21
    Everyone uses dumping ground for ages.
  • 00:40:22
    So, or that's how well people looked
  • 00:40:24
    after the area. Oh, mate. It's it's
  • 00:40:26
    terrible. We've done so many cleanups
  • 00:40:27
    there on behalf of the previous owners,
  • 00:40:28
    the community did, mate. It's there was
  • 00:40:30
    washing machines, um pallets of stuff,
  • 00:40:33
    tires, like it it burnt out cars. But
  • 00:40:36
    anyway, Audress is doing a great job
  • 00:40:37
    fixing that place up. He has fenced it
  • 00:40:39
    off. Um he has approvals to build six
  • 00:40:41
    houses up Morirana Street, but I don't
  • 00:40:43
    think he's in a hurry to do that. If he
  • 00:40:45
    does that, a foot path will have to come
  • 00:40:46
    all the way out to the beach. Oh, that'
  • 00:40:48
    be He actually like Kar resort and the
  • 00:40:50
    other people at Taylor's Point, he owns
  • 00:40:51
    down past into the water. He actually
  • 00:40:53
    owns the beach, but I don't know if the
  • 00:40:55
    state's going to do a survey and try and
  • 00:40:57
    fix up some of these anomalies from the
  • 00:40:58
    1800s, but apparently they are because
  • 00:41:01
    you're not supposed to be owned below
  • 00:41:03
    the No, not in Australia. But anyway,
  • 00:41:05
    he's we met with him last week. Um he's
  • 00:41:08
    doing some great stuff out there. He has
  • 00:41:10
    some yellow iron, but he's not
  • 00:41:11
    constructing anything. He's just picking
  • 00:41:12
    up. He's had lots of vandalism, death
  • 00:41:14
    threats, like we're going to break your
  • 00:41:15
    knees cuz locals that want to get the
  • 00:41:17
    bit. Yeah. And the the hoons that used
  • 00:41:18
    to go four-wheel driving down there.
  • 00:41:20
    Like he's been abused a lot actually. Um
  • 00:41:22
    but he seems like a really genuine nice
  • 00:41:23
    bloke. So
  • 00:41:25
    as long as he treats the environment
  • 00:41:27
    with respect, you know, people don't
  • 00:41:28
    really mind development. Well, not
  • 00:41:30
    sensible people anyway. They don't mind
  • 00:41:31
    development so long as it's done with
  • 00:41:33
    respect, you know. Well, those those six
  • 00:41:36
    houses that if he ever does develop
  • 00:41:37
    them, which he's got permission to do,
  • 00:41:38
    that those approvals were with the last
  • 00:41:40
    owners, um that'll actually be a good
  • 00:41:42
    outcome because it will stop four-wheel
  • 00:41:44
    drive been able to get through access
  • 00:41:45
    onto that land cuz you'll have houses
  • 00:41:46
    there now. So, it actually it'll be a
  • 00:41:49
    good outcome that developing that part
  • 00:41:50
    at Morirana Street, I think, is a is is
  • 00:41:52
    sensible. Yeah. No, it's beautiful over
  • 00:41:55
    there, but you'll have a footpath there
  • 00:41:56
    within weeks. So, and that's taken
  • 00:41:58
    that's taken nine years as well. Oh,
  • 00:41:59
    that's excellent. That's another good
  • 00:42:00
    news. We're getting winds. We're getting
  • 00:42:02
    wind. I'm just not doing a good job of
  • 00:42:03
    getting on Facebook. I've been so busy.
  • 00:42:05
    I've been traveling everywhere. What's
  • 00:42:06
    good about the channel if people
  • 00:42:07
    actually watch it, you know, they can
  • 00:42:08
    they can learn things. The other thing I
  • 00:42:10
    forgot about Clifton, there seems to be
  • 00:42:12
    some um some uh work going on at the
  • 00:42:15
    bike park, you know, on the other side
  • 00:42:16
    of the road. Oh, yes. Yes. Near Rudder
  • 00:42:18
    Street is that'll be Evergreen Park. So,
  • 00:42:21
    um we're getting um World Trail. So,
  • 00:42:23
    Glenn Jacobs and Dylan, the two partners
  • 00:42:25
    there, they're building um a pump track
  • 00:42:28
    for us. So, with a proper ashvault pump
  • 00:42:30
    track for the bikes. Okay. So, it's just
  • 00:42:32
    been dirt jumps over there for the
  • 00:42:33
    longest time. They're going to build a
  • 00:42:35
    U. I thought I didn't I thought people
  • 00:42:36
    had just done that. I didn't realize
  • 00:42:39
    actually I thought, "Oh, those kids are
  • 00:42:40
    really great. They put all these mounds
  • 00:42:42
    up there." There's been a lot of
  • 00:42:44
    accidents over there and people with
  • 00:42:45
    their own shovels making dangerous
  • 00:42:46
    jumps. This is going to be next level.
  • 00:42:49
    So, it'll be ready. I think they started
  • 00:42:51
    works last Monday. It'll be ready in I
  • 00:42:53
    saw them doing work. It'll be ready in 3
  • 00:42:55
    weeks. And um and and you're going to
  • 00:42:56
    love it. So, take your kids down there
  • 00:42:58
    in about 3 weeks time. We'll go down and
  • 00:42:59
    check the guys while they're building
  • 00:43:00
    it. Yeah, the good local company. They
  • 00:43:02
    work all around the world in the
  • 00:43:03
    Netherlands, Tasmania, New Zealand.
  • 00:43:05
    They're everywhere. But they're based
  • 00:43:06
    out of canes. And um so we got good
  • 00:43:08
    local contractors making great jumps
  • 00:43:10
    right there. Maybe what I should do is I
  • 00:43:12
    should I plan to do with the toilet area
  • 00:43:14
    is maybe I should just take the camera
  • 00:43:16
    around just do a little little few, you
  • 00:43:18
    know, a couple of minute video of this
  • 00:43:19
    bit that what we were talking about so
  • 00:43:21
    people can see. Yeah, I've been planning
  • 00:43:22
    on doing that myself. I got to find the
  • 00:43:24
    maybe I'll do that. I might do that
  • 00:43:25
    tomorrow cuz cuz people unless you
  • 00:43:27
    remind people what you've been doing and
  • 00:43:28
    what's happened and they just they
  • 00:43:29
    think, "Oh, I haven't heard from oldie
  • 00:43:30
    in a bit. He's been lazy." I promise you
  • 00:43:32
    I haven't been lazy. I've been um we've
  • 00:43:34
    been kicking goals and uh and I think
  • 00:43:36
    there's been a lot of stuff happening on
  • 00:43:37
    the beaches. So, I'll put out I'll have
  • 00:43:39
    to do another video. I'll probably share
  • 00:43:40
    I'll share your video. Lots of
  • 00:43:42
    information here. Lots of breaking news.
  • 00:43:44
    Yeah. Okay. That's I've run out of my
  • 00:43:45
    list now. You said you had a couple of
  • 00:43:47
    other points, didn't you? Have we done
  • 00:43:48
    that? Yeah. Well, we talked about the um
  • 00:43:50
    the path street. Yeah. More street. We
  • 00:43:52
    just talked about that with the footpath
  • 00:43:53
    there. Yeah. Um, no. Other than that, I
  • 00:43:55
    guess what else is going on? There's
  • 00:43:57
    We're delivering the budget in a few in
  • 00:43:59
    a few days on June 25th. And that's
  • 00:44:01
    always hard because everyone loves
  • 00:44:02
    getting a rates bill, right? You know,
  • 00:44:03
    it's you're on a hide to nothing. But
  • 00:44:06
    I've actually I did a I did a show I got
  • 00:44:08
    my own radio show and I I'll put that
  • 00:44:10
    I'll put that up on Facebook, my last
  • 00:44:11
    episode from this week, because it'll
  • 00:44:13
    explain to you kind of like how rates
  • 00:44:16
    work, why we're looking at doing
  • 00:44:17
    different things like the retirement
  • 00:44:18
    villages and relocatable park um caravan
  • 00:44:21
    parks. If you if you watch the video,
  • 00:44:23
    you put make a comment, put the link in
  • 00:44:24
    the comment. Yeah, I'll do that. I don't
  • 00:44:27
    really know much about YouTube to be
  • 00:44:28
    honest. I'll ask I know lots, but I
  • 00:44:31
    don't really I got a Spotify account
  • 00:44:32
    this week with B Olds, but but no, so
  • 00:44:34
    I've got a lot of good information I try
  • 00:44:36
    and put out there. Um we had another
  • 00:44:38
    controversial like last week we voted on
  • 00:44:39
    the reconciliation action plan uh which
  • 00:44:41
    myself and one other counselor,
  • 00:44:43
    councelor Tickna, voted against and I
  • 00:44:45
    speak about the reasons why I felt that
  • 00:44:47
    way and I think if you hear the show
  • 00:44:48
    it's better to explain. So, there is
  • 00:44:50
    plenty going on, but I've only got a
  • 00:44:51
    couple minutes. I've got a meeting in
  • 00:44:52
    town with Bob Katar, actually talking
  • 00:44:54
    about the new Range Road. Oh, I'll I'll
  • 00:44:56
    let you know what I talk. Oh, yeah. Good
  • 00:44:57
    old Bob. He got back in. He increased
  • 00:44:59
    his primary. Oh, good. I like Bob. Yeah,
  • 00:45:01
    but he was kind of open for a minority
  • 00:45:03
    government. I was on the airplane once
  • 00:45:04
    and he he sat sort of next to me over
  • 00:45:05
    the aisle from me, which amazed me
  • 00:45:07
    because I saw Paulie sat in business
  • 00:45:08
    class, you know, but he sat No, he's
  • 00:45:10
    economy. He sat in economy next to next
  • 00:45:12
    to me and I said, "You know something,
  • 00:45:14
    Bob, can I tell you this?" I said, "Your
  • 00:45:16
    hat looks a lot bigger on TV.
  • 00:45:19
    He he couldn't stop laughing the whole
  • 00:45:21
    flight. No, he's he's a good guy. I He
  • 00:45:24
    was hoping for minority government
  • 00:45:25
    obviously so he could he could have more
  • 00:45:27
    power, but he didn't get that outcome.
  • 00:45:28
    Far from a minor. Yeah. 94 seats, mate.
  • 00:45:31
    I don't know what happened. Yeah. Yeah.
  • 00:45:33
    Well, that's another show in itself. But
  • 00:45:34
    um but I talked to Bob before um before
  • 00:45:37
    the election and one thing he's always
  • 00:45:39
    wanted the tunnel, right? A new R and I
  • 00:45:40
    want a new Range Road. A lot of us do.
  • 00:45:42
    Oh, yeah. Everybody does. Um the way to
  • 00:45:44
    the way to get that range road happening
  • 00:45:46
    is to stop bugging the state government
  • 00:45:48
    about it because right now if if a range
  • 00:45:50
    road gets built the state have to pay
  • 00:45:51
    100% of it. Yeah. So even though it's
  • 00:45:54
    technically a national highway. So if
  • 00:45:55
    you look at a map for Australia it shows
  • 00:45:56
    the number one highway all around the
  • 00:45:58
    country. If you see the number one on a
  • 00:46:00
    white sign that means it's a federal
  • 00:46:01
    highway where they have to they pay
  • 00:46:03
    they're spending 80% of the money for
  • 00:46:04
    federal highways. Yeah. But you see the
  • 00:46:06
    number one on a green sign that means it
  • 00:46:09
    is still the federal highway but the
  • 00:46:10
    state 100% pay for that. Oh, really? So,
  • 00:46:13
    you can't anytime you we're asking the
  • 00:46:14
    state to do roads and this is why north
  • 00:46:16
    of Baron River or north of Canes, why
  • 00:46:18
    our highway system's always been worse
  • 00:46:20
    than south to Cans because the federal
  • 00:46:22
    highway used to stop at at um Ray Jones
  • 00:46:24
    Drive at Portsmith. So, it went to the
  • 00:46:26
    port and and so anytime they did works
  • 00:46:28
    on the highways there, the feds put in
  • 00:46:30
    80% of the money and the state only had
  • 00:46:31
    to put in 20% because you got Navy base
  • 00:46:33
    there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, no. Yeah,
  • 00:46:35
    that's true, too. But but you've got um
  • 00:46:37
    you did that the state government. So
  • 00:46:39
    the federal government doesn't have a
  • 00:46:40
    department of transport. So they just
  • 00:46:41
    give you 80% of the money to the states
  • 00:46:43
    and territories. But about four or five
  • 00:46:45
    years ago, a warrant entry was
  • 00:46:47
    successful in getting this the federal
  • 00:46:48
    highway extended to Smithfield
  • 00:46:50
    roundabout. But so the money now any
  • 00:46:53
    works that happened from now on, 80%
  • 00:46:54
    will be paid by the feds for that
  • 00:46:55
    highway, not the state. But if you want
  • 00:46:58
    to get a range, the way to get it, and
  • 00:47:00
    I'm going a long way around it, but I'm
  • 00:47:01
    trying to make the point. If if Bob
  • 00:47:04
    wants if anyone wants that railroad to
  • 00:47:06
    happen, what they need to do is get a
  • 00:47:08
    federal highway declared. And I don't
  • 00:47:10
    know why this should be everyone should
  • 00:47:11
    be advocating for this. Our whole entire
  • 00:47:13
    country, that federal highway should be
  • 00:47:15
    a national highway paid for by federal
  • 00:47:17
    taxes. It should be and um and so we
  • 00:47:19
    need to advocate for that was the plan
  • 00:47:20
    original plan, you know, one one highway
  • 00:47:23
    that's circumnavigated Australia. Are we
  • 00:47:26
    not part of Australia? You know, I this
  • 00:47:27
    is what this is. Sometimes you think
  • 00:47:28
    that, don't you, up here? You do feel
  • 00:47:30
    like they forgotten sometimes you don't
  • 00:47:31
    you don't even think like you're part of
  • 00:47:32
    the state sometimes you know because
  • 00:47:34
    especially like disaster relief funding
  • 00:47:36
    down in the southeast they seem to get
  • 00:47:38
    it just like that the next day it's
  • 00:47:39
    there where write the check you see you
  • 00:47:42
    should put the numbers on and we'll sign
  • 00:47:43
    the check up here you saw the Gold Coast
  • 00:47:45
    beach after after Cyclone Alfred which
  • 00:47:47
    wasn't even a cyclone it was a tropical
  • 00:47:49
    storm um but it ate the whole beach away
  • 00:47:52
    and Tom Tate the mayor down there said
  • 00:47:53
    if this isn't fixed by Easter which is
  • 00:47:54
    only 3 weeks away I'll buy everyone in
  • 00:47:56
    the Gold Coast a beer it was fixed by
  • 00:47:58
    Easter they got the money And I don't
  • 00:47:59
    begrudge them getting the money in the
  • 00:48:00
    works. I'm just saying we want the same.
  • 00:48:02
    We're we're 18 still going. We're 18 19
  • 00:48:05
    months later and we're still we're still
  • 00:48:06
    after disaster fun. They're still fixing
  • 00:48:07
    they're still fixing the road up to Port
  • 00:48:09
    Douglas. And I heard somebody tell me it
  • 00:48:11
    it'll be finished in 2029. It's a long
  • 00:48:14
    bloody wait, isn't it? They would never
  • 00:48:15
    take this long anywhere else in the
  • 00:48:16
    States. I know it's it's it's
  • 00:48:18
    disgusting. But I um with regards to
  • 00:48:20
    that highway, if we want to get a
  • 00:48:21
    another range road for Boules and
  • 00:48:23
    everything, we need a national highway
  • 00:48:25
    declared. That's what we should be
  • 00:48:26
    advocating for a national highway but a
  • 00:48:28
    national railway as well from cans to
  • 00:48:30
    kumba federal highway federal railway
  • 00:48:33
    and then then you'll get a you'll get
  • 00:48:35
    your tunnel or you'll get your road
  • 00:48:36
    whatever it is because 80 because then
  • 00:48:38
    the state government will be open to it
  • 00:48:39
    because they only have to pay for 20% of
  • 00:48:41
    it. Yeah. So that's the way we got to
  • 00:48:42
    go. I'll be talking to Bob in about 45
  • 00:48:44
    minutes about exactly that. But um I
  • 00:48:47
    don't know we just our whole region has
  • 00:48:48
    so much exciting things happening but
  • 00:48:50
    there is a lot of work to be done in
  • 00:48:51
    certain areas in crime in infrastructure
  • 00:48:53
    and there's we're being let down a
  • 00:48:55
    little bit or a lot and uh so as much
  • 00:48:57
    good as we got going on we've still got
  • 00:48:58
    to take care of this as well. Yeah.
  • 00:49:00
    Yeah. But anyway I guess that's yeah
  • 00:49:03
    haven't got too much else. I'm just
  • 00:49:04
    looking at the time. I got Well, we'll
  • 00:49:06
    wrap it up anyway. So no I appreciate
  • 00:49:09
    hope you enjoyed it guys. Yeah. And
  • 00:49:10
    we'll do it again in another month or
  • 00:49:12
    so. I'm going to try and get some more
  • 00:49:13
    breaking news. More breaking news. Yeah.
  • 00:49:15
    Thanks. Have a good one. Remember, like,
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    subscribe, and hit the notification
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    bell. Good on you. And look after
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    yourselves. Bye. Bye. Cheers, mate.
  • 00:49:24
    That's good. That was good. Yeah. Yeah.
  • 00:49:26
    Okay. Here's the work I was talking
  • 00:49:28
    about with Brett today. This is at
  • 00:49:33
    Clifton. This is the skate
  • 00:49:40
    park. Wow. Certainly changed.
  • 00:49:47
    That's what's happening. Very much full
  • 00:49:50
    into it. So, they've taken the whole
  • 00:49:51
    skate park away. As you can see, that's
  • 00:49:53
    where the skate park used to be. It's
  • 00:49:55
    taken away and they're putting more
  • 00:49:56
    stuff in. This will be
  • 00:49:58
    fantastic. Well done, everybody. Okay,
  • 00:50:01
    here's what I was talking about at
  • 00:50:04
    Clifton. They've got it all fenced off.
  • 00:50:06
    They're in here now. They've got access
  • 00:50:09
    to the
  • 00:50:10
    beach. Cut a few trees down. And they've
  • 00:50:13
    got access to the beach and they've
  • 00:50:16
    fenced everything off. Look, this is the
  • 00:50:19
    playground fenced off, but they've still
  • 00:50:22
    they've still left the entrances open. I
  • 00:50:25
    don't
  • 00:50:26
    understand. And they've even fenced off
  • 00:50:29
    over here where the car park is. I don't
  • 00:50:32
    know. I don't
  • 00:50:33
    know. Don't know what's going on. But
  • 00:50:36
    the playground is still playground is
  • 00:50:39
    still open. Look, there people are still
  • 00:50:41
    in it. Look. But
  • 00:50:44
    uh everything is sealed off
  • 00:50:46
    here.
  • 00:50:51
    Okay. And there heavy machineries in
  • 00:50:54
    just by the toilets at
  • 00:50:58
    Clifton. Okay.
  • 00:51:12
    [Music]
  • 00:51:25
    [Applause]
  • 00:51:26
    [Music]
  • 00:51:31
    Okay, here's the new
  • 00:51:33
    footpath. I'll spin
  • 00:51:39
    round on Beaver's Road here. Goes all
  • 00:51:43
    the way down
  • 00:51:45
    here on this
  • 00:51:49
    side. This is what I was talking about.
  • 00:51:52
    This is a crossover here where
  • 00:51:54
    somebody's driveway goes across council
  • 00:51:56
    land to uh to the roadway.
  • 00:52:03
    Looks like they've cut some crossovers
  • 00:52:06
    and redone them. So, it goes all the way
  • 00:52:09
    down
  • 00:52:11
    there. And we'll go
  • 00:52:14
    down and have a look at the uh the new
  • 00:52:17
    toilet block. But this is it. New
  • 00:52:19
    footpath. Way to go,
  • 00:52:21
    Gil. Okay, this is the drift complex
  • 00:52:26
    here. Here. Drift complex.
  • 00:52:31
    This is Viva's Road. That's Triton
  • 00:52:36
    Street. This is Cafe Viva's
  • 00:52:42
    here. Alamanda in the back
  • 00:52:46
    there. And this is where I think the
  • 00:52:49
    uh the toilet's going here. just
  • 00:52:56
    here in this
  • 00:52:59
    uh like a slip road thing here. I think
  • 00:53:04
    they're putting the
  • 00:53:05
    toilet there. So, it's recessed back
  • 00:53:08
    from the road. This is the road
  • 00:53:12
    here. There's Viva's road. This is a
  • 00:53:15
    slip road
  • 00:53:16
    here. I think they're putting it here.
  • 00:53:22
    Just
  • 00:53:25
    here. Yeah, somewhere in there. I think
  • 00:53:28
    that's where it's going. Could be wrong.
  • 00:53:31
    Maybe somebody can leave a comment if
  • 00:53:33
    I'm wrong. Here's the
  • 00:53:39
    information. Wangetti track. Pause the
  • 00:53:42
    video.
  • 00:53:52
    did unfortunately get washed
  • 00:53:55
    away. So we'll go over
  • 00:53:58
    here the Wangetti. I call it Wiggy Getty
  • 00:54:00
    track. I call it Wangetti trail. Oh,
  • 00:54:02
    there you
  • 00:54:04
    go. Pause the video. Have a
  • 00:54:07
    look. There's the map.
  • 00:54:14
    Okay, let's go up here and have a quick
  • 00:54:18
    look. See what they're doing. It all got
  • 00:54:21
    washed away in the
  • 00:54:26
    cyclone. That was a fair while ago. I
  • 00:54:28
    don't
  • 00:54:30
    know what's taking them so long.
  • 00:54:46
    go over the bridge.
  • 00:54:50
    We'll see. See, look at this. This is
  • 00:54:51
    the landslide. It all all
  • 00:54:54
    came down in the We had so much rain.
  • 00:54:57
    1.3 m of rain in 3 days. We had at my
  • 00:55:01
    place just up the road. Might have had
  • 00:55:04
    more
  • 00:55:05
    here. I still haven't been able to fix
  • 00:55:07
    it. There was boulders the size of buses
  • 00:55:11
    blocking this road here when it came
  • 00:55:13
    down. Fact, there's still a boulder over
  • 00:55:16
    there when it came down. Yeah. So
  • 00:55:20
    amazing. Okay, let's have a look.
  • 00:55:23
    Probably get a better view of the
  • 00:55:24
    landslide from this
  • 00:55:26
    footpath bridge
  • 00:55:28
    rather. Foot bridge. Eventually I got it
  • 00:55:33
    right. This is the creek
  • 00:55:36
    here. And this is all the boulders that
  • 00:55:39
    came down the
  • 00:55:45
    creek. Look at
  • 00:55:48
    that. Washed
  • 00:55:51
    out. They're in here trying to fix it.
  • 00:55:54
    They've got
  • 00:55:57
    a some heavy machinery
  • 00:56:01
    in scraping it all away. But uh the
  • 00:56:05
    track is pretty much closed at the
  • 00:56:08
    moment. Went up by the creek, I think,
  • 00:56:11
    if I remember right. But I don't
  • 00:56:16
    know. Maybe I'm not right. Well, there
  • 00:56:19
    it is.
  • 00:56:22
    Okay.
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  • Wangetti Trail
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