Dear Neighbours,

Over the past weeks I’ve enjoyed being out and about in community while Council chambers have been in recess. From planting days, P&C meetings, community meetings, local events and community BBQs, it's been wonderful to connect with residents across the Gabba Ward. 

During this time, however, the Deputy Premier’s decision on Kurilpa Temporary Planning Local Instrument (TLPI) has been looming over residents in West End, South Brisbane and beyond (click here for more info). In a testament to the strength of our community’s email campaign, the Deputy Premier has announced a short consultation period on the TLPI, something that has never happened before. 

We know the LNP Council Administration and their developer mates are working overtime lobbying the Deputy Premier to approve the TLPI. So this consultation is our best last chance to ensure the community's voice is heard loud and clear.

If this scheme gets approved, the Kurilpa Precinct will just be the beginning. During budget sessions, the LNP made clear they intend to use TLPIs across the city to override Neighbourhood Plans and bypass the minimal community consultation usually required.

Many of you have acted either through signing the State Government petition propelled by community groups West End Community Association and Kurilpa Futures or via direct phone calls and emails to the Deputy Premier through my website. But as the pressure increases and we come closer to ensuring the Kurilpa TLPI is rejected, I ask you to act again by filling out the State Government short survey.

We’re so close to stopping the Kurilpa TLPI, but we need your help!

Free Monday night dinners at Raymond Park!

With hundreds of volunteers, Amy, Max and I are stoked to have started free Monday night dinners in Raymond Park. So if you are free on a Monday, come down for a FREE meal, meet some neighbours and enjoy one of the few inner-city green spaces still around. 

Governments of every level have cut public services and assets over decades, so when times get tough, people get left behind. Times are tough now. Whilst only structural change can deliver a meaningful, long-term solution, our offices recognise we must do our bit where we can to help people struggling today.

Cooking starts at 5pm, and dinner continues till about 6:30pm.

Victorian Commonwealth Games cancellation calls into question Brisbane Olympics

With the Victorian Premier's cancellation of the Commonwealth Games due to the multi-billion delivery cost blowout, a new focus has been put on the Brisbane 2032 Olympic games that will cost Queenslanders over $7 billion. 

Already 3 times over budget since the original announcement, the $2.7 Billion Gabba redevelopment will not only divert much-needed funding from schools, housing, and hospitals but also displace students from the beloved East Brisbane State School and demolish precious inner-city greenspace and housing around Raymond Park.

Help the community in their fight!

• Sign the Save East Brisbane State School petition
• Sign the Save Raymond Park and scrap the $2.7 billion Gabba redevelopment petition

Out and About

NAIDOC Family Fun Day

During NAIDOC week, I joined thousands of people in Musgrave Park to celebrate NAIDOC Family Fun Day. NAIDOC began as a protest by Aboriginal sovereignty groups before evolving into a public movement and week of action. In 1938, on 'the Day of Mourning', protestors marched in the streets of Sydney. This was one of the first major anti-colonial liberation demonstrations in the world.

This year's NAIDOC theme was 'For our Elders'. I acknowledge Elders, present and past, for all they bring to our local community. 

Peoples Pride

People's Pride is coordinated by community members that speaks to the roots of Prides' beginnings, the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969. People’s Pride is about countering the uber-commercialisation of Pride by corporations willing to take our money but not defend or stand up for our rights. The day also highlighted and centred the voices of the most vulnerable in our community; trans women, men and nonbinary folx, sex workers, those with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. These members of our community are dealing with significantly higher rates of violence, harassment and suicide. Yet these are also the exact people who have fought hardest for the rights the broader LGBTQIA+ community have access to today. As far as we've come there is still a lot of work to do, including me in my position of privilege.

Metro Arts Pathfinders Exhibition Opening

Wonderful to spend time with the team behind Metro Arts and artists Caitlin Franzmann, Elizabeth Willing, and Jame Barth as they provided reflections after a year of creating work via the Pathfinder program. The creation of new works plays such an essential role in the development of artists, and it's great to see organisations like Metro Arts leading the charge in providing programs for this level of development.

Pop Up Offices

Want to meet and chat in person? We are planning to host a number of pop-up offices across the Gabba Ward as an opportunity for local residents to meet me, raise issues and or just have a chat.

• Sat 5 Aug: River Quay Green - South Brisbane (8am to 11am)
• Sat 26 Aug: Montague Road Markets - West End Saturday (8am - 11 am)
• Fri 8 Sep: Fables - Friday after work drinks - Woolloongabba  (5pm - 7pm)
• Sat 30 Sep: Coffee in the morning w Trina - Kangaroo Point (8am - 11am)

Check out our website for more details.

See you around the neighbourhood!

In solidarity,

Trina