Senator Furner took some time out to help volunteers at the Pine Rivers Neighbourhood Centre's hamper distribution.
Five students in the Dickson electorate were awarded the Australian Student Prize 2008. Senator Mark Furner congratulated David Shaw and Kate and Amy Stevenson who were able to attend a morning tea in his office.
Residents of Strathpine and surrounding areas will have better access to health care after the location of the GP Superclinic was announced.
Dayboro author Jeff Hopkins-Weise's book Blood Brothers: The Anzac Genesis shows how the military, social and economic brotherhood of the ANZAC spirit began not on the sandy beaches of Gallipoli but 50 years earlier in the damp forests and fields of New Zealand.
CSR Bradford Insulation in Brendale will become a 24 hours a day, seven days a week business to cater for the demand of the Energy Efficient Homes Program as part of the Rudd Labor Government's Nation Building and Jobs Plan.
Farmers will benefit from SEQ Catchments Limited's South-east Queensland Sustainable Trees on Farms project which has just been awarded a substantial grant from the Federal Government.
Surprised.
That is the feeling which swept through Strathpine resident Victoria Watt when Senator for Queensland Mark Furner joined in to celebrate her 90th birthday.