On Election Night, ABC’s election guru Anthony Green sounded very much like Norman - the election analyst on the famous Monty Python Election Night skit. On election night, Anthony Green seemed to be regularly repeating Norman’s famous words……. “The voting went pretty much the way I predicted except the other side won”.   So what did we learn from this…

A few days ago, MBI Facebook uploaded a story about a leaflet that was being distributed around the MBRC Division 1 area.  This posting has been one of the most viewed on MBI Facebook, so MBI has decided to upload the post to its website for those readers who do not use Facebook.  The story concerns some controversy that has…

The responses from those who announced after February 3, 2016 that they would be running in Division 1 have now been received and collated. As a result of information that has been recently made available, the opportunity has also been taken to update the responses from those who announced before Feb 3 that they would be running in Division 1…

As of today (February 3), three individuals have declared they will be a candidate for the upcoming March 19 Council elections.  They are: Brooke Savige - High school teacher Paul Whyte - Former field supervisor with MBRC parks and gardens Dan Clancy - State Government employee All these candidates have now been sent a copy of MyBribieIsland’s candidate questionnaire. This…

In early December, MBI Facebook posted a story regarding the upcoming Local Government elections that will be held on March 19, 2016. In that story, MBI sought input from readers on what characteristics and attributes they thought candidates for Division 1 should have. MBI would like to acknowledge the input received. Some of the responses received are shown in the…

Yes, can you believe it. It’s election time again.  In the last Local Government and State elections, MyBribieIsland sent interviews to all candidates and published the responses.  This drew a mixed response.  Some candidates responded immediately with enthusiasm and honesty.  Some responded after much encouragement, and some candidates ignored MBI’s requests altogether. This election MBI will not be sending questions…

This week MyBribieIsland was contacted by Mr Albert Roberts who says he is a Brisbane resident and frequent visitor to Bribie.  Mr Roberts says he has written to the local newspapers on a number of occasions in the past about what he calls “useless” work being done by Council.  He forwarded his latest letter-to-the-editor and asked if MBI would publish…

The Council elections have now come and gone as well.  At the State elections in March, Queenslanders voted overwhelmingly for change.  Queenslanders also voted overwhelmingly against mud-slinging and personal attacks.  Some of that desire for change has continued into the Council elections.  Of the 72 Councils in Queensland, around 40 will have new mayors.  11 of these new mayors replaced…

In our Feb 3 posting, MyBribieIsland outlined what it believes are the major issues for Bribie Island in the upcoming State and Council elections.  Last week MyBribieIsland issued 10 questions to each of the candidates for the position of Mayor of MBRC that covered some of those major issues and these responses are published in this week’s posting.  These responses…