Andrew Laming (Bowman, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This entire building, even the great Australians in the gallery, will be shocked by Queensland Labor's money-grabbing exercise by attacking four-wheel-drive owners—mums and dads who are getting fines, issued defect notices and having their vehicles impounded simply because of a difference in the enforcement of laws in Queensland compared to the rest of the country. Motorists have no idea that what was legal last year and not enforced is now leading to these infringements under anti-hooning laws in Queensland by state Labor. Queenslanders are falling prey to police dragnets all over the state. While suspensions can continue to go up to 50 millimetres, adding larger tyres will get you pinged. That has never happened before—thousands of vehicles but only in Queensland; cross the border from New South Wales with a brand new modified four-wheel drive and you get pinged in Queensland 15 hours later. 75 millimetre lift is the basic necessity to get around on sand, to go on a holiday to Fraser Island. Labor's minister, Mark Bailey, sent me a cheeky email, obviously written off the cuff, telling me I'm fighting for political ends and pathetic political grandstanding. That's disappointing. I seek leave to table this email. Call it what you want; I will stand up for mums and dads in the four-wheel-drive community, for tourism in Queensland, for the right to do what we do in every other state, because Queensland is breaking away from national consistency, and that is a disgrace. I seek leave to table the document.

Leave granted.