2024 Lgaq Conference Motions

Brian Stockwell92:12

Okay, I'll put it to the vote. Those in favour? And Councillor Finzel? Yes. And that's unanimous. Thank you. Now Councillors, we've been going for an hour and a half. Are we ready to proceed? Or have a five minute- It's a break? So we will return. Okay, Councillors, we're going back onto the camera. Okay, welcome back. We move onto item 6.3, which is a range of proposed motions that are to go to the LGAQ for consideration for the upcoming conference.

Frank Wilkie92:55

Sure, these are motions put together by Councillors and Council staff to be sent to the LGAQ and their policy executive motion subcommittee will then look at them have a look to see if there's any replication with other councils motions. They'll look to see if it's similar or not to other motions that have been moved in the past and they'll make the decision as to whether they'll be forwarded to the conference which the LGAQ annual conference which will be held in Brisbane in October and debated on the floor of the conference.

Frank Wilkie106:24

Brandhagen @Gmail at the moment, if it's approved it means all these motions become the motions of the Noosa Council to be forwarded to the LGAQ for consideration. There's motion C is that the LGAQ calls on the State government to amend the Queensland electoral act or relevant legislation to ensure how to vote cards issued at elections by third parties are fact checked and properly authorised just as how to vote cards are for registered candidates and this flows from the recent local government elections where we had third parties issuing to how vote cards with preferred candidates with information on the how to vote cards which didn't have to be fact checked by the electoral commission of Queensland like registered candidates did. Feedback from a lot of electors was that they found a lot of this information misleading and confronting and if the electoral commission of Queensland also required anyone who wished to hand out electoral material within the confines of a booth that they have control over that they also have a responsibility to ensure that all material there is fact-checked just as do. Hence the term levelling the electoral playing field. Thank you. I think everyone's talked now so you wish to close? Yeah as I said before what we're agreeing to here today Councillors is for this all these motions to go to the LGAQ for their policy executive subcommittee, motions subcommittee to have a look at. They'll make the decision as to whether or not they proceed to the conference for debate and perhaps Councillor Wegener when we hear back from the LGAQ whether they've been accepted would be a good opportunity to do some press about the motions that we are actually taking to the conference but they are all very good quality motions I agree and yeah I don't think that anyone's going to vote against this motion but I will leave it at that.

Amelia Lorentson93:54

I'll speech speak to the three that I submitted for endorsement today the first is establishing big councils where big stands for believe in good a workplace giving program and rather than reading the actual motion which is available online I'm just going to give you a quick just overview but the idea came after I attended the red shield appeal fundraiser a few weeks back and was inspired speaker by the fundraiser plus the speaker, Rod McKeogh. I walked out with a simple question what can I do and what can we do to create meaningful change and I reflected and remembered something that I had initiated in 90s in my career down in New South Wales and it was a workplace giving program where staff all contributed a small one dollar voluntary contribution on a weekly basis and then that was given to a charitable organisation and that small contribution had a big impact when you multiply by a lot of employees so I considered what that would look like on a local level and then on a state level and the potential is really quite big so my motion basically puts to the LGAQ to support councils to establish a big Council or workplace security program through the creation of a consistent framework. The should include guidelines for setting up workplace giving programs for local government employees, mayors and Councillors, the framework for selecting eligible charities, and the framework for administering the contributions and funds. Again, voluntary and I would love you know the idea of Noosa Council could be the first Council to become a big Council where again big stands for believe in good. Another motion that I'm hoping for support today is motions that supports wastewater recycling and diversion initiatives and it's basically I'm getting a little bit more specific so rather than repeating what I bring to LGAQ every year and ALGA every year in terms of wastewater recycling and diversion targets this one's a little bit more specific and I'm actually asking for funding alternative treatment option trials such as the bi-solid gasification project down in Logan. In an ideal world again where I'd love to go with this is for Noosa to get funding for a trial similar to the Logan bi-solid gasification. Again details are in the report. The third motion came about after attending ALGA in Canberra probably a week or two weeks ago. At this stage local governments across Australia have no representation on the ministerial housing Council. I think it's the only ministerial Council that ALGA don't have a seat in and it's probably you know really important and so my motion requests that LGA. LGAQ advocate. For ALGA to be a full member of the housing ministerial Council and the idea is that we don't have a one-size-fits-all approach to housing issues and that local governments, just our planning powers, aren't undermined and that we need tailored solutions that reflect our economic ecosystems. So this was really that important and came out I sat on the short-term accommodation roundtable and it was a concern that was repeated throughout all the councils in Australia. In fact it was included a motion similar to the one that I had in front of us was included as a special business agenda because of its urgency and it was a last-minute inclusion in the ALGA conference. Again I hope this gets support Thank you. Anyone else wish to talk?