A business owner told
The Observer that Gladstone Regional Council advised it was too hard to change the contract for the light poles. Councils are meant to support the community, I thought, and our product uses aluminium produced locally at Boyne Smelters, the man said. The business owner, who asked not to be named, said his company submitted its tender through a wholesaler, to a contractor, in August 2020. The contractor has been successful in winning the tender for the job, he said. Everybody seems to want to use us except we ve got this hurdle at council. We knew it would be difficult to get something across the line if we weren t cheaper and a better product and it turns out we are cheaper and a better product.
Queensland and its central region have an abundance of natural beauty â but in the eyes of some, there are landmarks that scar the horizon.
The Observer took to social media to discover what the readers thought were the regionâs biggest blights on the landscape - its biggest eyesores.
Interestingly, many of the nominated industrial âeyesoresâ have helped shape Gladstone into the city it is today, plus contributed hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more, to the local, state and national economies during their existence.
QAL â
For 53 years Queensland Alumina Limited has been a prominent feature of the Gladstone landscape.