Denis Walls for Mayor

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Thank you to all the supporters

In this election, you can vote for a team that prioritises our community's needs, not vested interests. Here is my vision for our region we all call our home!

Vote 1 Community First to shape a safe, sustainable, and vibrant Cairns together.

Vote 1 for Denis Walls for Mayor and Community First Team in your division.

Division 2: Patricia Courtenay for Cairns Division 2
Division 3: Marisa Seden for Division 3, Community First Cairns
Division 6: Nicole Sleeman for Cairns Division 6
Division 7: Renee Lees for Division 7 - Community First Cairns
Division 8: Phillip Musumeci for Division 8, Community First Cairns
Division 9: Carine Visschers for Cairns Division 9

My Vision for Cairns Region - Denis Walls for Mayor, Community First Team Support CommunityFirst for Cairns Regional Council

Community First candidates Denis Walls and Patricia Courtenay showing their smiling faces to the electorate in the southern suburbs.

Patricia Courtenay for Cairns Division 2

In relation to water management, flood resilient planning, effective public transport and affordable housing.

Last night I attended the Machans Beach Community Association's monthly meeting with four other mayoral candidates and the four Division 8 candidates. Nearly all the statements and questions revolved around the 17 December flooding, responses to it, and future solutions. I was very supportive of the moratorium on development in the Barron Delta while inquiries are carried out through council and through JCU's Prof Jon Nott.

I raised broader questions around the importance of future integrated, more prescriptive planning that is responsive to climate changes and provides greater certainty to residents.

All division 8 candidates attended the Machans Beach Community Association forum last night, along with 5 of the mayoral candidates. Denis Walls for Mayor and I emphasised the need to pause development on the river delta and reconsider the previous 1997 council development plan. Many problem issues were raised but ultimately they relate to poor planning and oversight, and also to the lack of final say over land use on the delta. All of the residents have to live with the consequences of levee banks redirecting flood flows, roads acting like flood plain weirs, even major developments placed inside flood channels diverting flood water so it severely damages schools, etc. but how do we stop this rot. We must change the QLD state legislation on planning to give councils some specific power to stop dangerous development. Pictured after the event is a local resident holding a sign showing they have had enough chaotic development.

Among supporters at the Festival of the Francophonie this afternoon. Some very interesting conversations with a diverse group of Cairns residents from all parts of the French speaking world.

Community First got 36% of the vote in the Cairns Local News which is a fantastic result for us and shows the growing surge of support for our positive and forward-thinking ideas as we head into the last week of the campaign.

Many thanks to all of you who have supported us so far and please keep going for another week. We need you and we thank you!

Breaking News: High tide threatens to undermine candidates' posters.

One of the Cairns Local News poll favourites and mayoral candidate Denis Walls said: "we only put this sign in this morning and now it is under threat" . he continued "the neon sign confirms the poll on 16 but high tides could undermine our democracy. This is why we need good planning" he said.

Community First candidates, Nicole Sleeman for Cairns Division 6, Renee Lees for Division 7 - Community First Cairns and Marisa Seden for Division 3, Community First Cairns have spoken out forcefully in today’s media on the issue of domestic violence and how this should be a local government issue.

Marisa Seden makes the point that Council should be actively partnering with the community to prevent DV similar to what has been achieved in Mackay which has formed a Mayor’s DV Taskforce with very successful results in abating violence in the home.

Community First is a team with five strong female candidates and, on International Women’s Day, it’s appropriate and wonderful to see our candidates front and centre at women’s day events in Cairns emphasising and reinforcing the importance of having powerful women seeking positions of power.

Patricia Courtenay for Cairns Division 2
Marisa Seden for Division 3, Community First Cairns
Nicole Sleeman for Cairns Division 6
Renee Lees for Division 7 - Community First Cairns
Carine Visschers for Cairns Division 9

Campaigning in Gordonvale today!

Pre-polls engagement with the community! We reiterate our vision for this region is to build a Cairns that is safe, sustainable and vibrant.

Vote 1 for community first

Getting the message out on McCoombe St!

Those who missed the Mayoral forum organised by Cairns and Far North Environment Centre at JCU last week. Please watch it here and listen to my policies on various environmental issues our region is facing and Community First's plan to address them to build a Cairns which is safe, sustainable and vibrant.

For those who missed the Candidates Forum last week, you can see all the action by watching the recording thanks to JCU: James Cook University, Australia video recording and IT team 🙌

Amy Eden for Mayor - Councillor Div 5
Mayor Terry James - Cairns Regional Council
Denis Walls for Mayor
Paul Taylor-Mayor Candidate Cairns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZClhOnr48Y

Impressive eh? Vote 1 - Community First Cairns team, a fresh team with a fresh vision for safe, sustainable, and vibrant Cairns.

Patricia Courtenay for Cairns Division 2 Marisa Seden for Division 3, Community First Cairns Nicole Sleeman for Cairns Division 6 Renee Lees for Division 7 - Community First Cairns Phillip Musumeci for Division 8, Community First Cairns Carine Visschers for Cairns Division 9

Denis Walls for Mayor I am a former educator, running for mayor, who has lived in Cairns for 33 years.

Chelsea Scanlon and I cleaned up the mess of litter next to Hungry Jack's near the DFO this morning. We managed to fill two and a half huge bags of rubbish with the passing help of Edward from Mornington Island. The Crew Captain at Hungry Jack's came out to show his appreciation of the clean up and I urged him to ask the manager to ask staff to spend five or ten minutes each day collecting the waste packaging outside the premises on the grass to prevent such a build up of litter in the future.

Thanks to you Chelsea for organising this and the hard work you put in. It was great working together and very satisfying to leave the grassy and treed area next to the drain in a fresh, clean state. It would be wonderful if people could simply use the waste bins provided instead of just throwing it on the ground!"

Denis Walls for Mayor, mayoral candidate for Cairns.