Carolyn Male MP, State Member for Pine Rivers, today announced a Bligh Government grant of $3 400 has been awarded to Pine Rivers Liquor Accord Group to introduce a designated driver program. » more

Carolyn Male MP, State Member for Pine Rivers, recently asked a Question on Notice of the Minister for Emergency Services, the Hon Neil Roberts about the importance of smoke alarms. » more

State Member for Pine Rivers, Carolyn Male MP, today announced Pine Rivers householders will be able to save even more money under the Bligh Government’s new and improved ClimateSmart Home Service. » more

Carolyn Male MP, State Member for Pine Rivers, is calling on locals to nominate Queenslanders doing exceptional and vital work to protect children from abuse and neglect for Child Protection Week Award. » more

State Member for Pine Rivers, Carolyn Male MP, has welcomed the Bligh Government’s continued investment in agribusiness and biosecurity, as well as the financial commitment to disaster recovery in the state budget. » more

Fifty young women will have the opportunity of a lifetime to develop leadership skills by participating in the inaugural Queensland Young Women’s Forum, held July 27-29 in Brisbane, State Member for Pine Rivers, Carolyn Male MP said. » more

Carolyn Male MP, State Member for Pine Rivers, has received advice from the Department of Main Roads regarding the works to repair landslip damage caused to Mount Mee Road by unprecedented flooding events in early January 2011. » more

More Pine Rivers students are riding, scooting, skating, walking, carpooling or jumping on public transport to get to school as part of an innovative new travel, Carolyn Male MP, State Member for Pine Rivers said. » more

State Member for Pine Rivers, Carolyn Male MP, is urging flood-impacted small businesses and primary producers to get extra support through the intensive Flood Recovery Program before it ends on 30 June. » more

This evening I rise to support this year’s state budget, which is delivering real cost-of-living savings and providing innovative new services for Queenslanders closer to home. We have lived through a summer of disasters, with floods, cyclones and torrential rain that has ruined homes, businesses, roads, infrastructure, holidays and the tourism industry as well. This budget is about rebuilding Queensland. It is a budget that cares for those who have suffered and it is a budget that helps families with the cost of living. » more

I was deeply saddened to hear of the sudden death on Good Friday of one of the great environmental campaigners of our time, Mark Ricketts. His memorial service was held in Witta in May and people came from far and wide to share their memories of Mark, to get together to affirm his conservation values and to honour a man who has inspired generations of people. In fact, ‘inspire’ was a word I heard over and over again when talking to people about Mark. » more

Sport and recreation clubs in the Pine Rivers area can find out the latest information regarding funding with the Bligh Government’s sports information sessions hitting the road. » more

Carolyn Male MP, State Member for Pine Rivers, said that TransLink will deliver more than 2000 additional weekly bus seats connecting to Bray Park train station and Westfield Strathpine Shopping Centre. » more

Year 7 will become part of high school from 2015 as part of the Bligh Government’s ongoing improvements to Queensland’s education system, Carolyn Male MP, State Member for Pine Rivers said. » more

Last week the new TransLink rail timetables for the Caboolture line came into effect. The new timetable has added more than 70,000 weekly train seats to the Caboolture and north coast line, and commuters have told me that the additional seats on the line are welcome. As I have stated previously, there are no longer any express services operating out of Lawnton, Bray Park or Strathpine stations, and some people are still unhappy about this. During consultation some commuters said that they valued the express services whilst others were more interested in reliable services running on time and services that were not held up waiting at stations. To that end, more services are starting from Petrie, which means more available seating and reliable arrival times. » more

Each year when summer rolls around commentators from southern states take great delight in poking fun at Queensland for not introducing daylight saving. They like to ridicule Queensland as being backward and behind the times. In southern states, it makes perfect sense to adopt daylight saving. Their solar pattern lends itself to an extra hour of sunlight at the end of the day so that sunset is at about 7.00 to 7.30. It would be a completely different matter if the sun did not come up until 7.00 and did not recede until 9.00 or 9.30. But that would be the case for the majority of Queenslanders in the north and west of the state. After all, daylight saving is more of a quality of life issue, and daylight saving for northern and western Queenslanders would reduce their quality of life quite significantly. This is widely accepted by most people, even those who support daylight saving. » more

Carolyn Male MP, State Member for Pine Rivers, said Queenslanders scouring online real estate sites for a rental property are urged not to fall victim to a scam involving fake properties being advertised at well below market value. » more

Carolyn Male MP, State Member for Pine Rivers, today welcomed news that young people looking to start a career and people looking to change industries would benefit from the Bligh Government’s $50 million annual investment in skills training. » more

Building inspectors will be out in force targeting shonks and unlicensed contractors on local construction sites from Tuesday (June 14), State Member for Pine Rivers, Carolyn Male MP said. » more

This year’s State Budget is delivering innovative new services for Queenslanders closer to home.

Premier Anna Bligh today announced an investment of $100,000 to deliver a dedicated diabetes liaison nurse for Pine Rivers’ locals. » more