Gary Hardgrave (Moreton, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Parramatta must visit Queensland and see for herself just how short of water we are because of the failure of the Queensland government to invest. She needs to understand why we are short on road traffic space—because of the failure of the Queensland government to expend. She must understand that the Bombay express travels through my electorate, stacked with people. I have people from Salisbury to Kuraby who currently have to put up with a third rail track being put in, who have huge mullock heaps of leftover dirt being placed behind their homes, who are putting up with road crossings of rail not working, because the Queensland government is in complete panic mode.

So it is not about the blame game; it is about demanding of the Queensland government: ‘We’ve played our part; you play yours.’ Not only that, they cannot escape and they cannot hide from the simple fact that, when the opportunity came to invest in important infrastructure to back the tourism industry—which was the Wolffdene Dam at the back of the Gold Coast—Peter Beattie’s predecessor, Wayne Goss, and his lieutenant, the current member for Griffith, shoulder to shoulder said to the people of Queensland, ‘You don’t need the water.’ Guess what? We do, and we do now. We are absolutely, by every possible measure, being failed by a series of bad decisions by state governments of Queensland.

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