8.3 Suggested form for ministerial statements

A suggested form for ministerial statements is provided below.

HON MERRI ROSE MLA

Minister for Emergency Services

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT

SES Week 1999

Tuesday, November 9, 1999

Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a Ministerial Statement.

Mr Speaker, communities across Queensland owe their State Emergency Service volunteers a debt of gratitude.

In any 24 - hour period in Queensland, around 50 SES volunteers are activated in a range of roles.

Queensland's SES volunteers are the best in Australia - because they are exposed to a wide range of natural disasters and incidents and consequently are better trained and better prepared to respond to any situation.

Activations for major incidents across the State have increased over the past 12 months. The last storm season was the worst for some time, with widespread flooding in the south - west, south - east, central and northern parts of the State and savage storms in other areas.

In recent days, parts of the State have been lashed by early storms, with major crop damage on the Granite Belt.

Indications are that we cannot expect the current storm season to be any less devastating than last summer when Cyclone Rona and a string of storms caused crop and property damage estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars.

Last reviewed: 17 July, 2009

Last updated: 22 July, 2009

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