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Rockhampton voters will be rich with choice come January 23.
To help electors organise their preferences, we asked mayor hopefuls for a brief outline of their ideas and policies regarding 10 topics of interest.
Over the coming days,
The Morning Bulletin will publish their answers.
Any excluded candidates did not respond in time for publication or chose not to comment on the issue at hand.
The third topic is the environment.
Russell Claus
– Establish communication forums with interested parties on different issues of environmental concern and establish an aggressive street tree planting program, focusing on overly wide streets and gateway streets (like Gladstone Road and Musgrave Street).
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Police have established a crime scene and the cause of the blaze will be investigated. A bushfire that started on Fernfield Rd and Coast Rd, Baffle Creek, on Monday December 21 continues to burn in bushland. The blaze is burning behind the Wartburg State School and the Baffle Creek Sport and Recreation Centre. It is not threatening properties at this time. To keep up to date on the current fires in the region visit the RFS website.
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Subscriber only AS THE man in charge of a large rural area that usually celebrates every precious drop of rain, the catastrophic flood of 2011 was as bizarre a sight as anything Group Officer Dave Wandel can remember. Mr Wandel was in charge of the Prenzlau Rural Fire Brigade when the floods hit in January of that year, and while he lived only a short distance away, there was so much water being dumped on the ground that road access to work was cut off. In fact, of the 105 square-kilometre zone that the Prenzlau crews were responsible for, an astonishing 80 per cent was under water.