United Western Queensland leaders attend Queensland Housing Summit

SWQROC Chair, Mayor Samantha O’Toole, attended the Queensland Housing Summit hosted in Brisbane on 20 October 2022.

Mayor O’Toole was joined by her Western Queensland colleagues, NWQROC Chair Mayor Jack Bawden and RAPAD Chair Mayor Tony Rayner. Together they represented a collective 22 Western Queensland Alliance of Councils at the Queensland, covering 60% of the state.

Housing issues across the state including in South West Queensland council areas were discussed in depth. The event was a significant opportunity, bringing together all levels government, industry and housing stakeholders working through solutions in the short and long term.

While attending the summit, the Chairs took the opportunity to speak with Mike Kaiser, Director-General of the Department of State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, about the need for financial support for councils to build the essential infrastructure to bring individual residential blocks to market to facilitate housing development in rural and remote centres. They were pleased to also have Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk MP join the conversation.

WQAC Housing Summit Submission

The Western Queensland Alliance of Councils welcomed the opportunity to make a submission to the Department of Premier and Cabinet in the lead up to the Queensland Housing Summit on 20 October 2022.

Read the WQAC Submission to the Premier ahead of the Queensland Housing Summit.

Mayors O’Toole, Rayner and Bawden discuss Western Queensland Housing with DG Mike Kaiser.

The Premier took the opportunity to join the discussion with the mayors.