When dreams are thoughtcrime

I dream that our children will live in a world where secular and humanist democracy still exists.

A world where everyone is free to have a religion and to change from one religion to another or none at all.

Free to think, to believe, to speak and most importantly to dream.

That dream seems distant some days, unachievable others. We live in an age of dark age theofascists howling at the gates of civilization determined to tear them down. Our votes are all that stand in their way. As a wise man once said, there may not be someone you want to vote for, but there is almost always someone you want to vote against.

Toowoomba RC

http://toowoombarc.qld.gov.au/


The Toowoomba Regional Council.


Rather a stupid idea. Doesn't have boundaries determined by community of interest, they just shoved a bunch of randomly adjacent shires and the old City of Toowoomba under an ill planned ad hoc "New" regional council. Part of a number of such accretions imposed by the State Government a few years back.


Having said that, they are trying. Lots of dead wood in the system still, but they are moving forward.


There's a Local Law review on
http://www.toowoombarc.qld.gov.au/about-council/have-your-say/local-law-review/5761-local-law-review.html




We're thinking of putting in some comments.


For example when it comes to bouncers queuing people to enter nightclubs (yes, a joke in Toowoomba) they tend to pretty much block the footpath, so some of the bit below needs tightening.


Subordinate Local Law No. 1.2 (Commercial Use of Local Government Controlled Areas and Roads) 2011 Submissions on subordinate local laws



I really like Schedule 1 2(2)(u) provide, for use by patrons of each of the principal premises and the area on which the prescribed activity is undertaken, adequate toilet facilities;