Bert Van Manen (Forde, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

This Saturday the people of Queensland will go to the polls and get to decide who will lead the next state government in Queensland. They have a choice between an LNP led by Deb Frecklington, with a positive plan to get Queensland working again, or a Queensland Labor government that has racked up a list of fails as long as my arm. The fails include the notorious ambulance ramping at Logan Hospital, the $500,000 rigged poll to change the name of the children's hospital, and border exemptions denied to grieving families. Who would forget the contempt the Queensland Labor government and the local member for Macalister, Melissa McMahon, showed to the residents of Eagleby, Coomera and Carbrook when in 2019 they were devastated by the Labor government's reprehensible decision to gazette the northern alignment for the Coomera Connector in the dead of night, without any community consultation whatsoever.

This Saturday I encourage the people of Forde and the communities I represent to vote for the strong local LNP team that will deliver for our community. Mark Boothman and Michael Crandon on the Northern Gold Coast are tremendous champions for their communities. Clinton Pattison in Logan, Andrew Caswell in Waterford, Kirrily Boulton in Springwood and Judi van Manen in Macalister are a great team that will deliver for Forde and their communities and actually represent the communities that they live in and work in.

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