http://www.herveybaygossip.com All the local Hervey Bay news without the sticky fingers Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:57:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Premier Anna Bligh today announced significant changes to the Queensland land valuations system to provide greater certainty and align Queensland with other States. The Premier has today committed to moving to site valuation, consistent with other jurisdictions and in line with what the property industry and local government have been seeking ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/03/10/land-valuation-reforms-in-queensland/ We get plenty of sunshine all year round here in Hervey Bay and that makes power from the sun a very sensible option. So if you want to find out more about solar hot water in Hervey Bay or solar electricity in Hervey Bay then follow the links to Solarhart Fraser ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/02/22/power-from-the-sun-in-hervey-bay/ When Kingfisher Bay first announced that they would be cutting out the fast catamaran services from Hervey Bay to Fraser Island there was some people left wondering how they would ever be able to negotiate the steep stairs that were then fitted to the barges. At the time Kingfisher Bay management ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/02/21/the-kingfisher-barges/ Today's Courier Mail is carrying a story surveillance cameras and how a number of regional councils are investigating the possibility of having their cameras monitored by staff from Ipswich City Council. And of course our Mayor Mick is interested in having the security cameras in Hervey Bay and Maryborough monitored ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/02/21/arent-we-good-enough-mick/ Even though it might be a while before the Premier of Queensland makes it back to Hervey Bay that doesn't mean that you can't ask her a question. The people of Queensland will have an opportunity to have their say on the future of the education system, during the first on-line ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/02/19/would-you-like-to-ask-the-premier-a-question-about-education/ So according to the Chronicle we're on the verge of seeing the coal industry come back to the Fraser Coast. For several years now there's been talk of at least one mine opening up around Aldershot just north of Maryborough and now that talk could turn into some action. According to ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/02/09/is-there-a-building-boom-coming-for-hervey-bay/ Jim MacKellar ponders the meaning behind the words the Mayor used in  comments to the Fraser Coast Chronicle last month. I have finally had time to fully digest the Mayor's comments in the paper (FCC 20JAN10) and I find them much more disturbing the more they are understood. The first half of ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/02/01/very-worrying-signs-for-fraser-coast-regional-council/ The forecast this morning for Hervey Bay included a high tide of 4.29 metres that was set to peak at Urangan Pier 0929hrs ... and it was indeed a very high tide that attracted a lot of onlookers . This is the view from the access gate at Shelly Bay right ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/01/31/high-tide-in-hervey-bay/ Kingfisher Bay's plans to cease operating a fast Cat service to Fraser Island comes to a head today with the very last fast service departing from Urangan at 10pm tonight.   From tomorrow morning it's the slow boat (barge) to Fraser Island and it will leave from River Heads. While the resort's ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/01/31/the-last-fast-ferry-to-fraser-island/ Self-assessment is always fraught with danger so I'm sure that many of us who saw what our representatives on the Fraser Coast Regional Council thought of themselves a few weeks back was almost funny. If you missed it, most of our esteemed councillors thought that they were doing an absolutely wonderful ... http://www.herveybaygossip.com/2010/01/30/bogus-report-cards/