Here at One Nation we spent many months developing detailed policies for this year’s Queensland state election as part our efforts to create a strong, prosperous and united Australia.

 

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Queensland’s education system was recently rocked by revelations teachers at Balmoral State High School posed in a raunchy and provocative calendar, during school hours, on school property.

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ABC News - Afternoon briefing interview with Senator Malcolm Roberts from Parliament House in Canberra. Australian banks are pushing to go cashless, and they are being assisted by a hapless Labor Government, hell bent on control and complete access to everyone's transactions. Senator Malcolm Roberts discusses this trend on the ABC's afternoon news program. One Nation opposes Australia's move towards a cashless society. 

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Recently it was exposed teachers at a school in Brisbane's east, Balmoral State High, used the grounds of the school to take bawdy and lewd photos for a calendar. 9news' A Current Affair has exposed those teachers were also phot graphed smoking and vaping on the grounds. This is a serious matter, and now only escalates the issue. Pauline Hanson's One Nation candidate for Keppel, James Ashby talks about the news, and discusses the ramifications that should flow from these developments. 

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Pauline Hanson has always argued that it is important all Australians are treated equally, and that the solution is stopping handouts along with the victimhood mentality of a lot of people in this churning industry. Have a read of this news, about closing the gap, as the One Nation leader serves a dose of reality for those that would profit from people who are our community's most vulnerable and underprivileged. 

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By James Willis: Labor ministers stand accused of being ‘spending addicts’ in a cost-of-living crisis after it was revealed Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones racked up a $43k hire car bill in just nine months, while also charging taxpayers for a private vehicle. Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has refused to explain why he appears to have double-dipped on MP entitlements, by using an expensive COMCAR while also having access to a personal vehicle.

Mr. Jones charges taxpayers for a private-plated vehicle, including a fuel allowance. However, on at least three occasions he used Government-issued hire cars for the 2.5-hour journey between his Shellharbour electorate to Parliament House.

The three trips were part of a $43,000 COMCAR bill Mr. Jones racked up between April and December 2022 - which included Labor’s first 7 months in Government. In the same year - he also claimed more than $11,000 for a personal vehicle.

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information reveal a correlation between 2022 Lower House-sitting dates and Mr. Jones’ most expensive COMCAR bookings. That includes a $1097 trip from his house at Mount Warrigal to Canberra on Sunday September 4 — a day before parliament resumed.

COMCARS are available for MPs via a phone APP at the cost of $2.10 per minute, plus additional charges depending on tolls, location and wait time.

However, according to the Department of Finance, the service is strictly for MPs “undertaking parliamentary business … when their private plated vehicle could not reasonably be used.”

Taxpayers also covered the cost of a $905 journey from Mr. Jones’ home to Canberra at 4.30am on Friday, September 23.

A day later, he booked a Saturday morning chauffeur to return him to Mount Warrigal at a cost of $922.

A spokesman for Mr. Jones refused to explain why he did not use his taxpayer-funded private vehicle for the individual trips, simply saying: “Parliamentarians are able to access travel, including flights and COMCAR for their parliamentary business, in accordance with the relevant rules and guidelines”.

Mr. Jones’ excessive COMCAR use has drawn a scathing response from fellow MPs.

“It really disgusts me that this sort of spending is going on. But in some ways, it doesn’t surprise me. Most of these politicians have never run a business, employed staff” One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson said.

“This is unreasonable. There is no reason he can’t drive himself like other MPs.

“Stephen Jones needs to be asked, if he had to pay for the COMCAR himself, would he take the trip?”

However, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek leapt to her colleague’s defense.

“Stephen lives in a regional area. He’s got a lot of travel to do.” Ms. Plibersek said on Sunrise on Monday.

 

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Many politicians were contacted or invited, but only Senator Pauline Hanson showed up to a public meeting called for a town pub in Western Queensland. This news story covers the town meeting in Toobeah, and how One Nation's leader attended the meeting. The major parties are not interested in locals concerns, instead they blast into town and tell locals what's happening. Listening is the keep to good representation, and that is what Pauline Hanson is well known for. 

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Editorial: Kylie Lang | The Courieral Mail | I pity the poor person who thinks that teachers dressing up in bawdy or irreverent costumes and simulating degrading acts for a calendar photo shoot is inappropriate.

That person - and anyone else who disagrees that such behaviour is harmless fun - must be a first-class bore. Well, count me in.

Teachers in the state school system are public servants - the public in this case being primarily children.

I cannot fall into line with the woke agenda that sees nothing wrong with male teachers dressing in skimpy sequin costumes and spreading their legs for the camera. Ditto making like a dog and having another teacher in a traditional nun's outfit put a foot on his glittering rear end.

Really? What kind of “education” are you people playing at?

Good on the whistleblower at Balmoral State High for raising the alarm because this sort of nonsense - much like gender-fluidity instruction - has no place in a school.

And make no mistake, the photos in question were not taken in the privacy of a teacher's home or for their own viewing “pleasure”.

They were snapped in the staff room, for a 2023 calendar that was able to be seen by students.

I'm surprised these teachers didn't go further and plaster the riotous images across social media - or were they worried about repercussions?

The government is “looking into the matter” but a spokesperson says the Department of Education “does not comment on individual employee matters as it has a responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of employee information”.

The staff members posing didn't seem to have a confidentiality problem at the time - also exposing faces for the camera - but so be it.

Courier-Mail readers jumped on the controversy, with plenty deriding the “fun police” who object to such behaviour. One said: “The fun police are on patrol. Anything that raises morale and bonds the workplace will be prosecuted!”

“Just shows a bit of creativity. Good on them for not being boring,” wrote another.

I fail to see how these sorts of antics boost morale - unless you're the organising committee for a mardi gras event.

And as for showing creativity, how about applying such flair to lesson plans to engage kids in the task of learning the basics such as English and maths - subjects in which Queensland kids are performing dismally against national and international benchmarks?

Australian education policy expert Anthony Welch, from the University of Sydney, says “good, well-prepared, enthusiastic teachers make a real difference to kids' lives, and generate better academic outcomes”.

This is true, so I'm not sure how playing dress-ups assists with that preparation.

As it stands, teachers already feel pressured to fit more into their day.

A recent federal government report notes “most teachers (92 per cent) say they ‘always' or ‘frequently' do not have enough time to prepare for effective teaching”.

The same report also states it is vital to “raise the status of the profession” in order to attract and retain the brightest educators.

This is also true. Yet some of our readers seem to believe it's unfair to ask teachers to lead by example.

“No self-respecting parent should be expecting teachers to be role models for their own children,” one said.

Certainly, parents should model the behaviour they wish their kids to emulate, but this doesn't let teachers off the hook.

They play a critical role in how young people turn out, and a raft of studies have found educational outcomes are greatest when home and school work in unison.

In that school environment, teachers set the standards, and it's obvious from student behaviour in the classroom which ones do it best.

While some kids might think it's hilarious to see what certain teachers get up to in the staff room, juvenile antics by adults cannot fail to diminish the authority of the teaching profession overall and the respect in which it is held.

One reader attempted to ameliorate the matter by saying: “Considering the way politicians behave, this is nothing.”

Look at the disdain a growing number of Queenslanders hold for politicians and tell me that's what we want for our educators.

 

 

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Listen as James Ashby discusses how much it will cost locals after Labor imposes it ute tax on everyday Australians. One Nation opposes the ute tax. Also discussed are other Australian news items, including the Cook by-election and the predictions for this week's by-election. 

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