COURIER MAIL HAS GOT IT WRONG ON CEDAR WOODS DEVELOPMENT BUT GIVING A FAIR APPRAISAL OF LABOR

The Courier Mail's unbridled endorsement for a 'full blown' Cedar Woods development at Upper Kedron is uncouth and reckless. It's as simple as that.

The paper should be totally supportive of the downsized 450 lot subdivision at this location which deputy premier Jackie Trad has approved, not dismissive or scornful of it. 1350 house blocks there would be monumentally out of place. I hope The Courier Mail and Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk now accept it.

But generally speaking, in the 6 months since Labor won the unwinnable election,
The Courier Mail has been right on the money with its criticism of the Palaszczuk Government's complete lack of economic and policy direction and its senseless abomination of any legislative agenda devised by the former LNP government.

The biggest trap any government can fall into is to get bogged down in dogma and ideology, and become the lapdog of minority appeal groups instead of serving the interests of the mainstream and the wider community. That's the trap which the Palaszczuk Government is falling into, and deeper all the time.

Premier Palaszczuk should be adopting a back to basics mildly reformist Wayne Goss approach to governance, one that promotes business, allows responsible development to proceed without excessive red tape and pandering to anti-development and anti-capitalist minorities, and one which gets Queensland moving. At the moment it's stuck in second gear.