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Traffic needs to be diverted on the D’Aguilar Highway whenever commemoration services are held at the current war memorial which stands in the centre of a very busy Coulson and Hart streets intersection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

April 16, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

South Burnett Regional Council received a petition at its Wednesday meeting from Blackbutt residents frustrated over alleged delays in a project to create a safer war memorial in the town.<\/p>\n

The petition, signed by 184 people, was presented to Council during a deputation by Blackbutt RSL Sub-Branch president David Jager at the start of the meeting.<\/p>\n

Mr Jager is chairperson of a committee which has developed a proposal for a new memorial to be built near the rail trail in Blackbutt, away from the D’Aguilar Highway where the current monument stands.<\/p>\n

He said a detailed proposal had been presented to Councillors and representatives from the Department of Transport and Main Roads in November 2025 after months of community planning.<\/p>\n

This had been received favourably and Council voted to lease land to the Sub-Branch for the new monument a month later.<\/p>\n

“Since then we have had no progress on the lease but only questions about car parking,” Mr Jager said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said a Right To Information request to Council in regards to the lease had been denied.<\/p>\n

Mr Jager said Blackbutt needed a new monument because of well-documented safety issues, the disruption to traffic flow and the disruption to commemoration services.<\/p>\n

He said it had been suggested that Council would have built a car park at the new location any way to cater for the museum and rail trail, but now the Sub-Branch was being expected to pick up the cost for both a car park and the monument.<\/p>\n

He said the “distraction” of the car park issue had left the project “dead in the water” until it was resolved.<\/p>\n

Mr Jager said the committee had been unable to apply for grants for the new monument until it had received a letter from Council in regards to the lease of the land.<\/p>\n

“The Blackbutt RSL Sub-Branch respectfully asks that the car park issue be resolved by Council alone,” Mr Jager said.<\/p>\n

“The shortage of parking in the rail trail precinct is not for our Sub-Branch to solve.”<\/p>\n

South Burnett Mayor Kathy Duff said she was “disappointed it had come to this”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I was of the opinion that this was all progressing,” the Mayor said.<\/p>\n

“We will receive the petition and then a report will come back to Council and obviously we will make a decision around what we need to do going forward.<\/p>\n

“I am just surprised that it has come to this as I thought we were working as a group, as council and your community, to get this as fast-tracked as we could.<\/p>\n

“I’m very sorry that it has to come to a petition.”<\/p>\n

The Blackbutt War Memorial, which consists of a stone soldier carved by Lowther & Sons of Ipswich, was unveiled by Nanango Shire chairman John Archibald Lee on April 24, 1920.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the project for a new monument goes ahead, the existing statue will remain in its current position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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