Wyatt Roy (Longman, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

including Roys Road in the member for Fisher's electorate—not in the member for Longman's electorate, I would just point out! But it is making a very big difference to our community and will unlock the economic potential of our region.

One of the big things we have struggled with locally is mental health. We have far too high a youth suicide rate, and I was very proud to announce, just a few months ago, that Caboolture will be a site for a headspace clinic which will help generations of young people to deal with some of those very difficult issues that we face with youth mental health.

As to the Dakabin train station, anybody who commutes to Brisbane would have seen that the Dakabin train station had hundreds of cars parked along the road in a very dangerous situation, and students at Dakabin State High School had to deal with that. Well, by Christmas, or very close to Christmas, construction will be complete on a 300-space car park, and that was a $300,000 commitment that I took to the last election. It is almost completed; it may well be complete by Christmas, weather permitting, making a big difference to local commuters.

After years of policy missteps on the NBN, the Labor Party, we knew, under the strategic review, would not complete the NBN until 2024. Today we added to the 37,000 local homes with the extra suburbs of Sandstone Point, Ningi, Beachmere and Godwin Beach. The NBN is getting back on track and, by mid next year, that will be done, improving the lives of many locals.

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