Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Deputy Speaker Sharkie, for the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Before coming to this parliament I was fortunate to have 25 years in the transport sector. I was a small business man. I owned a company by the name of CQX, or Central Queensland Express, and Toowoomba Express Couriers. I employed 105 people in the sector and I ran 14 depots around Queensland in regional and remote areas. I want to commend the member for Barker for bringing this very technical motion before the House. I fear, listening to the valued contribution from those opposite, that they may have picked up the wrong speaking points when coming into the parliament to make a contribution to what is something that will have an enormous shockwave through the transport industry. I can only assume that the member for Barker has brought this motion forward because of the collapse the other day the other day of Scott's Refrigerated Logistics, which, I believe, is in his electorate. It shows how fragile the industry is. As a former transport minister in this space, I would like to shed some light on Scott's of Mount Gambier, if you want to search it.

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