October 30, 2024 • 14 mins
In today's episode we break down the State Election results.
A man who killed a dingo with a speargun faces court.
The Australian Anti-Ice Campaign makes its mark in Bundaberg.
And police prepare to increase patrols at 4WD hot spots.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I welcome to your local news fix. I Heartlight Bay Bernette.
I'm Taylor Larson, joined by Bruce Atkinson. Ahead today, a
man who pulled a spear gun on a dingo faces court.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And more people with substance abuse reaching out for help.
We're kicking off with news that would have been hard
to miss this week, the election.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I think Chris Forley kind of candidat in his election
night remarks right at the end when he borrowed from
gos Whitlam.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's time, that's Emeritus Professor John Cole from unisq's Institute
for Resilient Regions. The LNP has been swept into power
in Queensland, with voters in regional areas overwhelmingly moving away
from labor the mood for change. Professor Cole forecast when
I spoke to him a couple of weeks ago, eventuated
it's a sea of LNP blue outside Brisbane, all the
(00:48):
way to the Cape and the outback. Professor Cole isn't
surprised by the election result.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The win for them has been delivered in regional and
rural Queensland, particularly coastal city regional Queensland, where crime people
have had a gut full of breaking enters, kids stealing
cars and wiping them out and killing people on the
roads and seemingly to be doing it with impunity. They
want something to be an alternative to what we see
(01:14):
at the moment, which seems to be softly softly. It's
not their fault, it's the circumstances of their lives, et
cetera kind of approach which may be right, but it's
not stopping the issue. So I think that was the
main thing, and just again the indecisiveness of the government
(01:35):
in terms of its vision for regional Queensland particularly. We
didn't hear much about infrastructure. The Bruce Highways talked about
but then kind of sidelined and it wasn't it wasn't
really a major issue in the election. Cruciforley probably knows that,
so he didn't go there himself, but at the same
time knowing full well of course that that's the only
(01:58):
way the Bruce Highway is going to be upgraded substantially.
It's through federal funding, so he knows that he's got it,
and that was one of the first things he talked
to Albanezi about when they had the phone call on
Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The LMP Stephen Bennett is back for his fifth term
as the Member for Burnett. He's hoping to create real
change after so long in opposition.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
For many years, I get blocked from so much information
from departments, from other agencies, and I'm looking forward to
being able to really embed myself in a process of
transparency and delivery. I guess things like the actual business
case for the Paradise Dam, the actual policy position of
the new hospital. Everything we've announced has been fully costed,
(02:38):
fully researched, and the strong policy position that's been developed
over a long period of time. We've engaged with stakeholders already.
We've made promises for the first hundred days in government,
keeping a community safe. Laws will be in four Christmas.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
At this stage, Labor is likely to retain one seat
amid the Sea of Blue and the wide bab Burnette.
Heading into the election, Bunderberg was the most marginal seat
in Queensland. Labour's Tom Smith won by just nine votes
at the twenty twenty election. He's now sitting more than
eight hundred votes ahead of the LMPs Brie Watson. He's
been hesitant to declare victory just yet.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Two thousand postal votes coming in, plus absentee votes and
so forth, that would mean that the LMP would need
to get two three hundred and thirty of those three
thousand votes to claim victory in Bunderberg, which equates to
about a seventy six percent of all votes still in account.
Would have to break their way so on the current trend,
that would be very difficult.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Mister Smith has had to farewell his colleagues Harvey Bays,
Adrian Tantari and Bruce Saunders, who held the seat of
Mirrabrus since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
I've spoken to Bruce and I've gone I had a
beer with Adrian as well. It's very very hard what
Bruce Saunders has done for the town of Mereborough. Here's
the one who should get a statue built after him
for what is done for that town. He turned it
from a town that was on its knees to a
regional powerhouse. And I think Bruce Saunders, whatever he does
in the future, he'll always be remembered for not only
(04:03):
changing the face of Maryborough, but changing the face that
Labour MP's campaign in Queensland. Now people used to laugh
about Bruce for wearing a red shirt with his own
name on it. Well, hello, here we are. We all
do it now because of people.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Like Bruce Elsewhere, Bryson Head is backing Callide, deb Frecklington's
safe in the nago and Tony Perrott has retained Gibbee.
Professor Cole says it's clear new Premier David Chris a
fully has learned lessons from his time in the Campbell
Newman government, which only lasted one term. He says, Newman's
cabinet had no experience in government. But it's different this
(04:35):
time and mister chris Fully won't repeat the same mistakes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It was a completely you know, if you're like a
virgin government this time round, that's not going to be
the case. And that's important because they know how government works.
And you've seen that already with the way David's gone
from Public Service Commission's gone for a low key independent
type of person to be the head of the Premier's
Department in the interim and hasn't started sacking people and
(05:01):
lining up party operatics to go in and be the
director general. It's the steady as she goes think he's
thinking generational, as you said, and it's about time because
you know, this is only the second time since eighty
three the conservative is the one in their own right,
So these wins in their own right are very rare.
And I think there won't be the hubris and arrogance
(05:22):
we saw from the Newban government this time around. It'll
be steady as she goes and they'll do the quiet
reforms because the people want to see things like fewer
minutes of ambulance ramping. They want to see juvenile crime addressed,
and not just through the cliche way, but through much
more studied and sturdy intervention at the early end, so
(05:45):
that these kids are recognized in the dysfunctional context of
their lives, that it's more than just twelve year olds
running around stealing cars. We're talking about We're talking about
disadvantage particularly, we're talking about this dysfunctional households where no
one has a job, or is not on drugs or
(06:07):
not seriously, alcohol is addicted. There's a whole range of things.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I think it's about time, you know, and I think
we'll see this government starts calling for what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
A man who killed a dingo with a spear gun
has learned his fate in court. The fifty seven year
old was camping on Gari formerly Fraser Island in April
this year when he said the animals were coming close
to his camp. He used the spear gun in an
attempt to scare them off, hitting a male dingo, causing
it to bleed out and die. The incident was reported
to rangers the following day. This week, the man pleaded
(06:41):
guilty to all of his charges in the Harvey Bay
Magistrates Court. He's been fined five thousand dollars plus fifteen
hundred dollars for court fees, also handed two hundred and
forty hours of community service and two years probation. The
Department of Environment and Science says the sentence sends a
clear message to visit it to the island that killing
(07:01):
or deliberately harming dingoes won't be tolerated.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Coming up after the break, police ramping up patrols at
full drive hotspots.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I have white, I have white bad. You're listening to
Iheartwie Bay Bernette. I'm Taylor Larson, joined by Bruce Atkinson.
It's been a year since the Australian Anti Ice Campaign
held a community forum in Bunderberg. Since then, dozens of
people have reached out for help with their own addiction.
(07:34):
This week, the campaign is hosting an event to create
more awareness and try to reduce the stigma. Tea Fisher
is the Bunderberg team leader.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
How I help people is I share my story with
them about how I came into recovery, what worked for me,
what didn't work for me, and I really genuinely care
about that person and walk alongside them.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
She says, shared experience buddies helped to make the journey
to recovery more relatable.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
We do throughout community is provide community education workshops and
we also run a buddy support program which is pin mentorship.
We walk alongside those people that want to seek help.
We do that by facilitating pathways into rehabs or just
going through things that empower that person, like linking them
(08:21):
up with twelve step meetings, things like that. We are
that friend in need when they want to come out
of that dark place. I've actually supported personally myself quite
a few locals in coming into recovery, which is so
beautiful to see. And not only the people that are
entrapped in addiction themselves are reaching out, but also family members.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission releases a wastewater report every
year showing trends of drug consumption. The most recent report
found more than ten billion dollars were spent on methamphetamines
over twelve months and use in regional Queensland is surging.
The anti ice campaign it the slogan not even once.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Ice is such an addictive drug, so sometimes it can
just take that one time and the chemicals associated with
the manufacturing of this drug really affect the neuropathways of
our brain. So you can imagine starting that at a
very young age. The damage that it can do. It's
a long lasting effect. The beauty of it is that
(09:24):
we can recover, but it takes a long time to
rewire those neuropathways.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
People who reach out are referred to a twelve step
meeting program and they're assisted with pathways into rehab. The
closest residential facilities are a few hours drive away in
Rockhampton or Kabulture Land has been earmarked to build a
rehab in Bunderberg. It's expected to be complete in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
For those that have been touched by any kind of
substance abuse disorder, I'm just getting positive feedback about that rehab.
The important thing though, is that they will still require
some support once finished that program.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Tucas it's not just people who are battling addiction who
have reached out families and loved ones. They are also
taking up support programs.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I have many link ups to family support groups and
those kind of services the family that people don't always
know about. We also, aside from the AAIC, I run
a drug addiction family support group online with a friend
of mine. She started that and it's a safe space
for families to go and just vent, get advice.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And if this story has raised any issues for you,
you can contact the National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline
twenty four to seven. They're on eighteen hundred twenty five
zero zero one.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Five Thousands of people will soon be heading to beach
camping areas in our region for the school holidays, and
police a urging drivers to behave poor behavior isn't uncommon
on the long strip of beach from NUSA to Rainbow Beach.
Just this week, pictures emerged of two young blokes sitting
on the roof rack of a four wheel drive as
(10:59):
a drive on the beach at Double Island Point. Sergeant
Chris Watson is in charge of the Gimbee Highway Patrol
and he says it's disappointing.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
It might seem like it's fun at the time, but
the consequences if something goes wrong can be pretty severe,
not just from they're obviously breaking the law, but injuries
and what not going on from that, things can go
sideways pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
For what I understand, and you see quite a few
reports about it, it's not uncommon for people to misbehave
and do some silly, dangerous things on the beach while they're.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Up there exactly. I think it's one of those places
where historically people have gone and it's all fun to
go up and do dotnuts and things like that, but
it's also it's a bit of a Telstra black spot,
so they feel like they're out of everyone's site and
they can get away with things where they usually wouldn't
on a normal driving situation out in the road.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
What are some of the things that you see happen
up there or get complaints about and have to go
out to investigate.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
The usual things are people doing donuts and all, especially
in front of campsites where there's a lot of not
just vehicles with pedestrian activity between the campsites and the beach,
so they'll be doing donuts and drifting up and down
the beach and people traveling in the outside of vehicles.
So if you can bind all that together, there's a
good chance. You know, people are having a few drinks
(12:18):
on the beach, things can go wrong really quick, and
unfortunately we do have accidents and get people injured, and
unfortunately sometimes there's a few fatalities there as well.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And being a remote location, if something does go wrong
and you're injured, it is going to take longer for
emergency crews to get to you.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Exactly. It's not so much the distance, only that people
have to travel to get CELSI service to notify either
a self and or ambulance. So there's the time delay
not just reporting an incident, but then for the ambulance
or paramedics or ourselves to get there to assist.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
What advice would you have the people that are going
up there.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
The thing is that it's a place to be enjoyed,
and I think when all people actually go onto the beach,
they pass signing there's all road will apply on the beach.
The big thing is that they really need to treat
it as if it is a zeted road, a normal
road they drive on every day of the week, and
because it is such an unknown environment up there, driving
on the sand, it's something that can be really dangerous,
(13:14):
so take up most care and abide by all road rules.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And it's not long until the Christmas school holidays start,
just a few weeks and it'll be packed up there.
I imagine police will be out in force as usual.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Coming into that season where everyone likes to get on
the beach, and we'll actually start ramping up. I believe
school is start off on the sixteenth of November, so
we will be starting our increased enforcement and patrols on
the beach from the sixteenth and run right through until
after Australia Day and Chris.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's not a thing that normally causes any injury or
loss of life, but just the tide times and being aware,
especially up the end there in the Rainbow Beach getting
around the rocks. I've seen recently four whell drive submerged.
It can be a very costly experience, so just check
the tide times and be some advice as well.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
I am made yeah, absolutely, it's definitely checked the tired
times and only travel on dead low and also check
with locals or other people that have been up there
before to see whether or not rocks at Rainbow Beach
are possible, because not only will they the fair chance
if they get hung up on the rocks they lose
their vehicle, but then it does tie up other services
as well retrieving the vehicles for them.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
That's all for this week. If you want to hear
this episode again or find previous ones, look up iHeart
White bay Burnett on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you
get your podcasts.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
We're back next week with more local, trusted and free news.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I have whe
I welcome to your local news fix. I Heartlight Bay Bernette.
I'm Taylor Larson, joined by Bruce Atkinson. Ahead today, a
man who pulled a spear gun on a dingo faces court.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
And more people with substance abuse reaching out for help.
We're kicking off with news that would have been hard
to miss this week, the election.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I think Chris Forley kind of candidat in his election
night remarks right at the end when he borrowed from
gos Whitlam.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's time, that's Emeritus Professor John Cole from unisq's Institute
for Resilient Regions. The LNP has been swept into power
in Queensland, with voters in regional areas overwhelmingly moving away
from labor the mood for change. Professor Cole forecast when
I spoke to him a couple of weeks ago, eventuated
it's a sea of LNP blue outside Brisbane, all the
(00:48):
way to the Cape and the outback. Professor Cole isn't
surprised by the election result.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
The win for them has been delivered in regional and
rural Queensland, particularly coastal city regional Queensland, where crime people
have had a gut full of breaking enters, kids stealing
cars and wiping them out and killing people on the
roads and seemingly to be doing it with impunity. They
want something to be an alternative to what we see
(01:14):
at the moment, which seems to be softly softly. It's
not their fault, it's the circumstances of their lives, et
cetera kind of approach which may be right, but it's
not stopping the issue. So I think that was the
main thing, and just again the indecisiveness of the government
(01:35):
in terms of its vision for regional Queensland particularly. We
didn't hear much about infrastructure. The Bruce Highways talked about
but then kind of sidelined and it wasn't it wasn't
really a major issue in the election. Cruciforley probably knows that,
so he didn't go there himself, but at the same
time knowing full well of course that that's the only
(01:58):
way the Bruce Highway is going to be upgraded substantially.
It's through federal funding, so he knows that he's got it,
and that was one of the first things he talked
to Albanezi about when they had the phone call on
Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
The LMP Stephen Bennett is back for his fifth term
as the Member for Burnett. He's hoping to create real
change after so long in opposition.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
For many years, I get blocked from so much information
from departments, from other agencies, and I'm looking forward to
being able to really embed myself in a process of
transparency and delivery. I guess things like the actual business
case for the Paradise Dam, the actual policy position of
the new hospital. Everything we've announced has been fully costed,
(02:38):
fully researched, and the strong policy position that's been developed
over a long period of time. We've engaged with stakeholders already.
We've made promises for the first hundred days in government,
keeping a community safe. Laws will be in four Christmas.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
At this stage, Labor is likely to retain one seat
amid the Sea of Blue and the wide bab Burnette.
Heading into the election, Bunderberg was the most marginal seat
in Queensland. Labour's Tom Smith won by just nine votes
at the twenty twenty election. He's now sitting more than
eight hundred votes ahead of the LMPs Brie Watson. He's
been hesitant to declare victory just yet.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Two thousand postal votes coming in, plus absentee votes and
so forth, that would mean that the LMP would need
to get two three hundred and thirty of those three
thousand votes to claim victory in Bunderberg, which equates to
about a seventy six percent of all votes still in account.
Would have to break their way so on the current trend,
that would be very difficult.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Mister Smith has had to farewell his colleagues Harvey Bays,
Adrian Tantari and Bruce Saunders, who held the seat of
Mirrabrus since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
I've spoken to Bruce and I've gone I had a
beer with Adrian as well. It's very very hard what
Bruce Saunders has done for the town of Mereborough. Here's
the one who should get a statue built after him
for what is done for that town. He turned it
from a town that was on its knees to a
regional powerhouse. And I think Bruce Saunders, whatever he does
in the future, he'll always be remembered for not only
(04:03):
changing the face of Maryborough, but changing the face that
Labour MP's campaign in Queensland. Now people used to laugh
about Bruce for wearing a red shirt with his own
name on it. Well, hello, here we are. We all
do it now because of people.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Like Bruce Elsewhere, Bryson Head is backing Callide, deb Frecklington's
safe in the nago and Tony Perrott has retained Gibbee.
Professor Cole says it's clear new Premier David Chris a
fully has learned lessons from his time in the Campbell
Newman government, which only lasted one term. He says, Newman's
cabinet had no experience in government. But it's different this
(04:35):
time and mister chris Fully won't repeat the same mistakes.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It was a completely you know, if you're like a
virgin government this time round, that's not going to be
the case. And that's important because they know how government works.
And you've seen that already with the way David's gone
from Public Service Commission's gone for a low key independent
type of person to be the head of the Premier's
Department in the interim and hasn't started sacking people and
(05:01):
lining up party operatics to go in and be the
director general. It's the steady as she goes think he's
thinking generational, as you said, and it's about time because
you know, this is only the second time since eighty
three the conservative is the one in their own right,
So these wins in their own right are very rare.
And I think there won't be the hubris and arrogance
(05:22):
we saw from the Newban government this time around. It'll
be steady as she goes and they'll do the quiet
reforms because the people want to see things like fewer
minutes of ambulance ramping. They want to see juvenile crime addressed,
and not just through the cliche way, but through much
more studied and sturdy intervention at the early end, so
(05:45):
that these kids are recognized in the dysfunctional context of
their lives, that it's more than just twelve year olds
running around stealing cars. We're talking about We're talking about
disadvantage particularly, we're talking about this dysfunctional households where no
one has a job, or is not on drugs or
(06:07):
not seriously, alcohol is addicted. There's a whole range of things.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I think it's about time, you know, and I think
we'll see this government starts calling for what it is.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
A man who killed a dingo with a spear gun
has learned his fate in court. The fifty seven year
old was camping on Gari formerly Fraser Island in April
this year when he said the animals were coming close
to his camp. He used the spear gun in an
attempt to scare them off, hitting a male dingo, causing
it to bleed out and die. The incident was reported
to rangers the following day. This week, the man pleaded
(06:41):
guilty to all of his charges in the Harvey Bay
Magistrates Court. He's been fined five thousand dollars plus fifteen
hundred dollars for court fees, also handed two hundred and
forty hours of community service and two years probation. The
Department of Environment and Science says the sentence sends a
clear message to visit it to the island that killing
(07:01):
or deliberately harming dingoes won't be tolerated.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Coming up after the break, police ramping up patrols at
full drive hotspots.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I have white, I have white bad. You're listening to
Iheartwie Bay Bernette. I'm Taylor Larson, joined by Bruce Atkinson.
It's been a year since the Australian Anti Ice Campaign
held a community forum in Bunderberg. Since then, dozens of
people have reached out for help with their own addiction.
(07:34):
This week, the campaign is hosting an event to create
more awareness and try to reduce the stigma. Tea Fisher
is the Bunderberg team leader.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
How I help people is I share my story with
them about how I came into recovery, what worked for me,
what didn't work for me, and I really genuinely care
about that person and walk alongside them.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
She says, shared experience buddies helped to make the journey
to recovery more relatable.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
We do throughout community is provide community education workshops and
we also run a buddy support program which is pin mentorship.
We walk alongside those people that want to seek help.
We do that by facilitating pathways into rehabs or just
going through things that empower that person, like linking them
(08:21):
up with twelve step meetings, things like that. We are
that friend in need when they want to come out
of that dark place. I've actually supported personally myself quite
a few locals in coming into recovery, which is so
beautiful to see. And not only the people that are
entrapped in addiction themselves are reaching out, but also family members.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission releases a wastewater report every
year showing trends of drug consumption. The most recent report
found more than ten billion dollars were spent on methamphetamines
over twelve months and use in regional Queensland is surging.
The anti ice campaign it the slogan not even once.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Ice is such an addictive drug, so sometimes it can
just take that one time and the chemicals associated with
the manufacturing of this drug really affect the neuropathways of
our brain. So you can imagine starting that at a
very young age. The damage that it can do. It's
a long lasting effect. The beauty of it is that
(09:24):
we can recover, but it takes a long time to
rewire those neuropathways.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
People who reach out are referred to a twelve step
meeting program and they're assisted with pathways into rehab. The
closest residential facilities are a few hours drive away in
Rockhampton or Kabulture Land has been earmarked to build a
rehab in Bunderberg. It's expected to be complete in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
For those that have been touched by any kind of
substance abuse disorder, I'm just getting positive feedback about that rehab.
The important thing though, is that they will still require
some support once finished that program.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Tucas it's not just people who are battling addiction who
have reached out families and loved ones. They are also
taking up support programs.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I have many link ups to family support groups and
those kind of services the family that people don't always
know about. We also, aside from the AAIC, I run
a drug addiction family support group online with a friend
of mine. She started that and it's a safe space
for families to go and just vent, get advice.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And if this story has raised any issues for you,
you can contact the National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline
twenty four to seven. They're on eighteen hundred twenty five
zero zero one.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Five Thousands of people will soon be heading to beach
camping areas in our region for the school holidays, and
police a urging drivers to behave poor behavior isn't uncommon
on the long strip of beach from NUSA to Rainbow Beach.
Just this week, pictures emerged of two young blokes sitting
on the roof rack of a four wheel drive as
(10:59):
a drive on the beach at Double Island Point. Sergeant
Chris Watson is in charge of the Gimbee Highway Patrol
and he says it's disappointing.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
It might seem like it's fun at the time, but
the consequences if something goes wrong can be pretty severe,
not just from they're obviously breaking the law, but injuries
and what not going on from that, things can go
sideways pretty quick.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
For what I understand, and you see quite a few
reports about it, it's not uncommon for people to misbehave
and do some silly, dangerous things on the beach while they're.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Up there exactly. I think it's one of those places
where historically people have gone and it's all fun to
go up and do dotnuts and things like that, but
it's also it's a bit of a Telstra black spot,
so they feel like they're out of everyone's site and
they can get away with things where they usually wouldn't
on a normal driving situation out in the road.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
What are some of the things that you see happen
up there or get complaints about and have to go
out to investigate.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
The usual things are people doing donuts and all, especially
in front of campsites where there's a lot of not
just vehicles with pedestrian activity between the campsites and the beach,
so they'll be doing donuts and drifting up and down
the beach and people traveling in the outside of vehicles.
So if you can bind all that together, there's a
good chance. You know, people are having a few drinks
(12:18):
on the beach, things can go wrong really quick, and
unfortunately we do have accidents and get people injured, and
unfortunately sometimes there's a few fatalities there as well.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And being a remote location, if something does go wrong
and you're injured, it is going to take longer for
emergency crews to get to you.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
Exactly. It's not so much the distance, only that people
have to travel to get CELSI service to notify either
a self and or ambulance. So there's the time delay
not just reporting an incident, but then for the ambulance
or paramedics or ourselves to get there to assist.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
What advice would you have the people that are going
up there.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
The thing is that it's a place to be enjoyed,
and I think when all people actually go onto the beach,
they pass signing there's all road will apply on the beach.
The big thing is that they really need to treat
it as if it is a zeted road, a normal
road they drive on every day of the week, and
because it is such an unknown environment up there, driving
on the sand, it's something that can be really dangerous,
(13:14):
so take up most care and abide by all road rules.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And it's not long until the Christmas school holidays start,
just a few weeks and it'll be packed up there.
I imagine police will be out in force as usual.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Coming into that season where everyone likes to get on
the beach, and we'll actually start ramping up. I believe
school is start off on the sixteenth of November, so
we will be starting our increased enforcement and patrols on
the beach from the sixteenth and run right through until
after Australia Day and Chris.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
It's not a thing that normally causes any injury or
loss of life, but just the tide times and being aware,
especially up the end there in the Rainbow Beach getting
around the rocks. I've seen recently four whell drive submerged.
It can be a very costly experience, so just check
the tide times and be some advice as well.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
I am made yeah, absolutely, it's definitely checked the tired
times and only travel on dead low and also check
with locals or other people that have been up there
before to see whether or not rocks at Rainbow Beach
are possible, because not only will they the fair chance
if they get hung up on the rocks they lose
their vehicle, but then it does tie up other services
as well retrieving the vehicles for them.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
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Speaker 2 (14:32):
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Speaker 1 (14:36):
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