Andrew Laming (Bowman, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Dobell highlights the sale of Telstra. It was the painful, unpopular but ultimately successful sale of state entities that even got us there in the first place. I ask you: what public infrastructure are you going to sell to pay off your debt? It is all gone. The low-hanging fruit is gone. What are you going to be selling? Your highways—and putting tolls on them? Where will you find the money to pay off debt? You have a Ruddbank that will send us another $28 billion into debt. This is a government with no idea and no clue.

I will finish as I started. My people in Bowman are good-hearted, resourceful people. They settled the area of Redlands as small farming communities which have been enveloped by the outer metropolitan spread of Brisbane. That is what gives me a right to talk about this motion and about how the infrastructure has not kept up with the population. The Labor notion that you roll out the community, borrow to pay for the infrastructure and then find a way to deliver it, years and years later, is why we are in the predicament we are seeing in this Queensland state election, whether you are looking at Mount Cotton Road or the Cleveland to Redland Bay Road; at our hospitals, which get a helipad when they need decent services; or at our bay being closed up—all they get is a concrete reef. I urge you to get more infrastructure delivered— (Time expired)

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