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Cr Collier moves a motion to reallocate all funding for the Living in Brisbane newsletter to the Pathways out of Homelessness program for the remainder of the year. Voted down of course.
How much does LiB actually cost anyway? Surely it couldn't be enough to make much of a difference?
Though I suppose the counter argument would be that even getting just one or two people into secure housing is worth more than an advertising campaign.
She claimed its budget is four times the homelessness program budget, but not sure the dollar figure. It was a stunt motion really and she kind of poisoned it by claiming it's marketing for the mayor and LNP councillors. Maybe there's some bias there but whenever I've looked at it, it's mostly just generic what's on and what happened kind of content.
It was in response to Cr Howard's stunt motion again calling on the state govt to use Pinkenba for crisis accomodation. And to round it off there was another stunt motion from Cr Cassidy calling on BCC to support the federal govt's Housing Australia Future Fund.
Yeah the "LiB is LNP propaganda" line is one Labor has used for a long time. I think it's mostly without merit, but the fact that it always has big friendly pictures of the Lord Mayor on the cover, and often inside, does lens it some credence.
I like the term "stunt motion". It's a really useful way to describe a lot of the motions they make. I'll definitely be using that in the future.