Tag: Politics

Get to know Bryson Head, Member for Callide

Note from Biloela Beacon editor, Jen Gourley: On June 18 this year, Bryson Head, at the age of just 26 years old, was elected as the local Member for Callide. The electorate of Callide is huge! It is 74,200 square kilometres – bigger than Tasmania! There are 37 towns, 60 schools, seven coal mines, six […]

Memories and achievements: Ken O’Dowd reflects on 12 years of service to his electorate

The following is the retiring Federal Member for Flynn, Mr Ken O’Dowd’s valedictory speech, delivered to Parliament last Thursday, February 10, 2022. In the autumn of 2010, I’d never thought of being a politician. Yet, by the spring of 2010, I was one. The preselected candidate for Flynn had withdrawn his nomination. I was in […]