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

A Labor member screams out about electricity. You know, the Labor Party are creating an energy monopoly in Queensland. What are they going to do with a state-owned energy monopoly to guarantee that electricity prices will not go up for people in my community? What are they going to do? If we are really honest about this, I think the last people who thought they would be forming government were the Labor Party. But they have. They are now the government and there are serious questions when it comes to the cost of living for locals. What are they going to do on water bills? What are they going to do on electricity bills? What are they going to do on public transport bills? Our plan was clearly laid out. The coalition government has clearly made very significant savings for people in my electorate. The question now is: what is the Labor Party going to do when it comes the cost of living for locals?

There are also other questions. This one really worries me and I have already written to the Premier of Queensland about it: how are they going to fund the infrastructure that matters in our electorate? I am inviting the Labor member opposite to come up to my electorate and visit Boundary Road intersection on the Bruce Highway. It is a terrible traffic hot spot for locals in my community. We built a Cosco there recently.

An opposition member interjecting—

She says, 'The infrastructure Prime Minister.' Well, the infrastructure Prime Minister and the coalition government here in Canberra put $84 million on the table to upgrade that intersection. The Queensland LNP put $21 million on the table. Do you know what the state Labor Party put on the table? I would ask Labor members. What do you think the state Labor Party put on the table for the Boundary Road intersection? What are they offering people in my community?

Opposition members interjecting—

They are not offering one dollar for a vital infrastructure upgrade in our electorate. The Labor Party is now the government in Queensland. We accept that. I am pleading to them: put back on the table the $21 million to upgrade this vital infrastructure in our local community. The coalition government here in Canberra today has $84 million sitting on the table. The Labor Party has got to find that $21 million that would have come if the LNP government was re-elected.

That the D'Aguilar Highway is another one in my electorate that is a very important road. It is a tragic deathtrap there. There have been far too many deaths there. This is a state government road, but I committed on behalf of the coalition government $16 million to upgrade the D'Aguilar Highway. If there was not the change of government, we would already see work underway there. There has been a change of government and it has gone into limbo with the state Labor government. I am appealing again to the state Labor government. There is $16 million on the table from the Commonwealth. We are not actually asking for any more money from the state Labor government. We just want them to spend the money that is on the table and build these upgrades. With the change of government, with new ministers who are seriously struggling in their portfolios, they are not doing very much.

The other one is of course the Caboolture Hospital. I love how the Labor Party continues to laugh about really important issues to people in my local community. At Caboolture Hospital car park 100 spaces are to be upgraded. Guess how many spaces the Labor Party is committed to: zero spaces. I am calling on the state Labor government to fund this increase, because it matters to our community, regardless of partisan politics.

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