Ninderry MP Dan Purdie has recounted the extraordinary efforts of emergency service personnel which saved the local community from disaster when a bushfire rapidly spread across Peregian last week. Mr Purdie used Parliament to place on record the gratitude and thanks of the wider community to all those who played
More than $20,000 in funding is set to be shared by five local charities and victims of the Townsville floods thanks to the generosity of members, visitors and supporters of the Coolum Surf Lifesaving Club. Coolum Beach SLS Supporters Club Community Benefit Fund will distribute $23,104.20 in proceeds to the
The daily school journey is about to get even easier for a group of Doonan students following a successful 18 month campaign to re-route the local school bus service. Ninderry MP Dan Purdie said a collaborative approach and a lot of patience had proven the key to the positive outcome,
There has never been a better time to get kids active, with a popular financial incentive program designed to help families with the cost of sport and recreation about to re-launch. Ninderry MP Dan Purdie said as with one sporting season soon drawing to a close and a new season
Team work has been credited with securing the funding needed to start what is set to become the biggest infrastructure project in the region, according to Coast MPs. Ninderry MP Dan Purdie, together with Nicklin MP Marty Hunt and the federal Member for Fairfax Ted O’Brien today welcomed news the
Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Ninderry MP Dan Purdie has described the State Labor Government’s second Budget akin to being ‘caught with your pants down, long after the the tide has gone out’. Mr Purdie unleased on a generation of Labor Treasurers who have recklessly wasted the money of hardworking Queenslanders,
Skate parks are not usually the typical breeding ground for respect and manners, but one local skate park is raising the bar when it comes to stamping out bullying and anti-social behaviour amongst youth. Yesterday, 80 young people aged from 4 to 16 donned their helmets and hit the ramp
When Coolum’s Carla Ellingsen joined Heartbeats three years ago, she was one of only a small handful to participate in the regular drumming workshop. Today, more than 60 individuals, many with intellectual and physical disabilities, crowd into the Uniting Church in Coolum for the colourful and loud musical therapy session.
Sixty years is a long time to serve in any profession, let alone an unpaid volunteer role, which is why Coolum local Tom Schwabe has a milestone worth celebrating, according to Ninderry MP Dan Purdie. Mr Purdie presented Tom with a Certificate of Service for 60 years as a Justice
Ninderry MP Dan Purdie was given his marching orders during a heated debate in Parliament today after the Premier failed to explain how children as young as 10 years of age are being held in the state’s maximum security watch houses. Mr Purdie, a former Queensland Police Child Protection Officer
