Bert recently held a ceremony to recognise the contribution and commitment to our nation’s security by two local ex-servicemen living in the Forde community. Barrie John Hill and David William Rathbone both received the Australian Defence Medal during a presentation at the Beenleigh RSL. The Australian Defence Medal is awarded to Regular and Reserve…
PLEASE HELP!! – One of our local organisations was broken into over night and they have stolen money and damaged food destined for poor and underprivileged families this Christmas. This Thursday night they were planning on feeding around 200 local families that would have not been able to afford Christmas dinner. Please help them…
van Manen gives back to the community this Christmas Federal Member for Forde, Bert van Manen has been busy giving back to the community this Christmas through donations and community service. This week Bert’s office took part in the Quest Newspapers Foodbank drive, ahead of other planned volunteer work to help out those…
Mid Year Economic Outlook Fails Forde – Media Release 29 November 2011 THE MID YEAR Economic and Fiscal Outlook update has unfortunately failed to provide any positive news for the people living in Forde. According to Bert van Manen, true to form the debt is up, the deficit is larger, spending is up and…
Small businesses to have red tape slashed under a Coalition The Federal Member for Forde, Bert van Manen supports the Coalition’s Deregulation Taskforces target to reduce the cost of red tape on local business by $1 billion per year According to Mr van Manen small businesses employ over 4 million Australians and…