Teresa Gambaro (Petrie, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

And the member continues to interject. She knows full well how devastated some Victorian communities were after those amalgamations and it will be no different in Queensland. It will have an absolutely devastating effect on communities. It will ruin the local character and it will be the death knell for local tourism and regional status. The City of Redcliffe in particular is a prime target at the moment. Are these the sorts of new communities that we want? The Prime Minister recently described Beattie’s plan for amalgamation of local government in Queensland as an abuse of power, and it is exactly that. It is an abuse of power and it will ruin tourism, small business and development in rural and regional Queensland. It will destroy local economies. (Time expired)

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