Landholders in the Diamantina and Barcoo Shires have a limited time to appeal the 246 per cent increase in their land valuation announced by the Queensland Valuer General on March 26, 2024, according to local MP Lachlan Millar, Member for Gregory.

“The 60 day objection period for the 2024 land valuations will close on May 27, 2024,” said Mr Millar.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk had no answers this morning when asked in Parliament why the people of Emerald and the Central Highlands were having to publicly fundraise to try and obtain renal dialysis chairs at the Emerald Hospital.

The question was the latest salvo in a long-running campaign to try and obtain the service and the lack of answers left local MP Lachlan Millar fuming.

The condition of Ardurad Road will cost lives if the State Government continues to underfund regional road maintenance Gregory MP Lachlan Millar has warned.

The road, also called the Blackwater-Rolleston Road, is the link road from the Capricorn Highway to the Blackwater Mine.

Small miners working claims on Queensland’s opal and sapphire fields have been ambushed by the Palaszczuk Government’s latest move to prohibit the granting of new mining claims under a 12 month moratorium.

The Palaszczuk Government’s boast that it is delivering permanent fuel price reporting to save Queenslanders money just shows Queensland has government from Brisbane, for Brisbane according to LNP Western Queensland spokesman, Lachlan Millar, Member for Gregory.

The newly-returned member for Gregory, Lachlan Millar, will be writing to the state electoral commissioner to raise concerns regarding the electoral arrangements in the seat of Gregory for the 2020 Queensland State elections.

Lachlan Millar has been declared as the Member for Gregory in the 2020 Queensland Election, with 84.77 per cent of all votes counted in the first preference count.

This will be Mr Millar’s third term as the Member for Gregory.

Revelations that Queensland’s once proud State Emergency Service (SES) is hemorrhaging volunteers and facing systemic decline under the Palaszczuk Labor Government is sounding alarm bells as the state enters the upcoming bushfire, storm, flood and cyclone season.

A parliamentary Question on Notice asked by LNP Shadow Minister for Fire and Emergency Services Lachlan Millar* has revealed that in the past five years nearly 1000 volunteers have walked from the SES.

MP Welcomes New STEM Block at Blackwater High

FAST FACTS:

• Blackwater State High School Receives New Manual Arts Block
• Gregory Schools Receive $8.9 Mill of School “Tradies Bonanza”
• Local MP says most is for scheduled maintenance

Local MP Lachlan Millar has welcomed the official completion of a new $4.2 million manual arts block at Blackwater State High School.

The Queensland Education Minister must put “her shoulder to the wheel” and give some direction and clarification on boarding school arrangements for Term 3, the member for Gregory Lachlan Millar told Queensland Parliament today.

Speaking after a zoom protest rally by parents, Mr Millar described boarders as “forgotten”.