March 6, 2016
South Burnett Division 6 residents had their first opportunity to hear their two Council candidates go head-to-head at Wondai on Thursday night.
Cr Ros Heit, who is re-standing, and Uwe (Tom) Nowack were invited to attend a Candidates Forum organised by the Wondai branch of the South Burnett Residents Action Group.
S-BRAG also invited the five candidates for South Burnett mayor to attend, but only Sheena Lindholm and Michael Brown accepted the invitation.
S-BRAG Executive Committee president Don Pinwill criticised the missing candidates in his introductory speech (see MP3 link below).
Few people expected the fifth mayoral candidate, Grant Newson, to attend following the public split between S-BRAG and Nanango & Districts SBRAG. Mr Newson and Division 1 candidate Caroline Haskard are on the executive of the latter group.
Unlike previous candidates forums in Kingaroy and Nanango, the S-BRAG forum accepted questions from the floor.
Each candidate was also given 10 minutes to speak (see below).
NB. Because there wasn’t a roving microphone at the event, the recording of the Q&A section has not been included below.
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Mayoral Candidates
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Division 6 Candidates
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