Olive Oil

It would appear that our own local community has been both politically and internally violated once again by our elected Council.

This time, a few local Government representatives seem hell bent on scuttling what’s left of our Shires future for their own personal agenda. Cr. Bellero once told me (in his own words) that he wants Newell Beach to be the next Palm Cove. While that maybe fine in theory, is that what the residents of Newell want?

We have an opportunity to place minimum cane land requirements into the Icon Legislation which may offer some legislative respite to an industry that has supported many local families over a hundred years plus. It may be that the mill will never need this respite, but why not use the Icon legislation as an agricultural industry olive branch?

The cane is not dead and the mill does have a commercial future. It is an evolving future that may even include water bottling one day, but it is a future none-the-less for the districts workers, farmers and mill shareholders.