{"id":137226,"date":"2016-03-06T12:31:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=137226"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T02:04:16","slug":"division-6-candidates-get-first-chance-to-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/03\/06\/division-6-candidates-get-first-chance-to-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Division 6 Candidates To Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Division 6 candidates Cr Ros Heit and Uwe (Tom) Nowack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

March 6, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Burnett Division 6 residents had their first opportunity to hear their two Council candidates go head-to-head at Wondai on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

S-BRAG also invited the five candidates for South Burnett mayor to attend, but only Sheena Lindholm and Michael Brown accepted the invitation.<\/p>\n

S-BRAG Executive Committee president Don Pinwill criticised the missing candidates in his introductory speech (see MP3 link below).<\/p>\n

Few people expected the fifth mayoral candidate, Grant Newson, to attend following the public split between S-BRAG and Nanango & Districts SBRAG.\u00a0 Mr Newson and Division 1 candidate Caroline Haskard are on the executive of the latter group.<\/p>\n

Unlike previous candidates forums in Kingaroy and Nanango, the S-BRAG forum accepted questions from the floor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each candidate was also given 10 minutes to speak (see below).<\/p>\n

NB. Because there wasn’t a roving microphone at the event, the recording of the Q&A section has not been included below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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