Michael Johnson (Ryan, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On Saturday I had the opportunity of meeting a lot of my local constituents. The federal seat of Ryan, in the western suburbs of Brisbane, is a great place to live, work and bring up your family. As a local member, I quite frequently attend booths at shopping centres in my electorate. I was at Kenmore Plaza shopping centre last Saturday and had the opportunity of speaking to a lot of people.

Of all the residents who came to see me, one young man, Christian Barron, and his friend Gregory Welsh very much impressed me. They came to see me with an idea. Christian was injured in a four-wheel drive many years ago. He injured his neck when the vehicle overturned. Now that he has recuperated he wants to be heavily involved in ideas, policies, suggestions and solutions to try to address the tragedy of road accidents and, in particular, to try to reduce the number of vehicles that are involved in accidents and kill many young people in particular. He has come up with an idea for a sticker to be placed on vehicles, in particular on heavy vehicles. He asked me to bring this to the attention of authorities, and I am certainly going to do that. He brought to my attention some facts which he would like me to read into the parliamentary record. In particular, he was keen to say that— (Time expired)