Symphonious

I was going to comment on how good it was to see the Queensland Government trialling E-Petitions, until I noticed the 12 month trial started in 2002 and they just haven’t bothered to update the website since. Sigh.

On the plus side, the E-Petitions are still up and there’s one that’s still current, so I guess the trial was considered a success. Good stuff. You can view the currently open petitions here.

The Brisbane City Council in conjunction with the Queensland State Government are building a rather expensive Youth Recreation Centre across the road from the recording studio I record in. There’s very little information available about what they actually intend to do with it but since I’ve been organising quite a few youth activities lately I thought I’d see what the plans were and try to take advantage of the new facilities to make staging youth events easier.

I called the manager of the centre who, it turns out, is actually the manager of the sporting complex next door and really doesn’t know too much about what’s going to happen with the youth centre. When he knows more he’ll get back in touch with me, but apparently there’s negotiations with the Policy Youth Club to run the place and provide activities to make use of the new building. No real surprises so far.

I thought I’d see what information I could gather from the local council so I call the councillor for my ward Kerry Rea and asked her. Much to my surprise I got straight through to Ms Rea herself, no waiting on hold, no secretaries, no messing around. Then not only was she polite and friendly she offered to track down information on who I should speak to about the youth centre and get back to me by the end of the week.

So, cudos to Ms Rea, that’s the way government is supposed to work. I wonder what things will be like after the council elections next Saturday….