Yes, that rattled me a fair bit, but am wondering how up to date...

Yes, that rattled me a fair bit, but am wondering how up to date he was. The sale of 10% of B-meadow is good news to me, and the debt reduction too. It has a fairly high interest rate.
I am going to suggest that the people of the Bowen Basin vote to secede from Queensland, and join NSW, or the NT.
Perhaps the NQ state idea should be reborn and everywhere north of and including Rocky be part of it. It would have the bulk of the productive resources and Brisbane would have to find some way of paying its way without them. They might be able to repair the hospital system in NQ the,which is very overloaded and neglected under this state Govt. An old timer from west of Brisbane told me there was never any problem with hospitals in the time Joh, for all the badmouthing they give him.