Queensland Residents draws to the attention of the House that the State Government intends to proceed with the demolition of the vacant hostel accommodation at the Eventide Residential Aged Care Facility, located on Hackett Terrace in Charters Towers. This State Government-owned site comprising 54 units is sitting vacant while Charters Towers is facing a severe and sustained housing crisis with the town's rental vacancy rate sitting at an unsustainable 0.1 percent.

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to do all within its power to ensure the proposed Charters Towers Hospital is reconfigured as a greenfield development on vacant land north of Eventide, and that the existing hostel accommodation is preserved and made available for private rental or leased to developers interested in its renovation and reuse.