Bruce Scott (Maranoa, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, is travelling into rural Queensland this week. I know that she will be in parts of my electorate. In the interests of the health of Queenslanders, including dental health, I appeal to her to visit those communities. On her watch, she will now be amalgamating those shires against the will of the people and that is going to have a dramatic impact on the health care and particularly the dental health care of people in towns like Aramac, where the medical centre that was to have a dental surgery would have been built, funded by the Aramac Shire and the federal government. Mr Deputy Speaker, I respect your call but I want to acknowledge that we have a new Premier in Queensland—the first woman Premier in that state.

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