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

It's been a wild week down here but an even wilder week in Redland City. The state Labor government has a strange way of showing love to their own MPs. The interisland travel in Moreton Bay, normally free because you can't afford to put card-reading machines on every island, was suddenly framed as being a saving policy from state Labor at the end of last year. Come 2019, Kim Richards comes out and says, 'Now we're going to be hitting up locals for the cost of interisland fares.' That Mark Bailey has a strange way of showing love to local MPs. Then we have the Victoria Point bypass. That was going to be a road subject to an election win and is now just a study. Who wanted a car park at Redland Hospital? Stephen Miles. Where are you? The bloke has a PhD in organising unions. He really should be down here, showing people what a real PhD is. Up there he is saying: 'We're not going to do a car park in the hospital. We will do a study of a car park.' You have to study these things over 12 months. He wants a pre-election pledge so you have to vote for them again for it to happen. This entire Redlands Labor lot have been #hampered, their entire reputation in the community #wrecked. When the Labor Party sees a road with 11 bottlenecks, instead of duplicating it like the LNP offered to for $55 million, they upgrade one intersection and create 13 bottlenecks. If you are trying to get to work and you've got a Labor government, you're going to be sitting on a bus in a traffic jam because they simply won't upgrade the roads.