Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party, Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The exceptionally good people of Queensland have elected a Crisafulli LNP government to address their major concerns—the soaring cost of living, including electricity prices; skyrocketing crime rates; lack of housing options; and a health system that was in crisis. I take this opportunity to thank Queenslanders and assure you all that the new LNP government is hard at work to improve your lives. You have placed your trust in the right premier who has the right priorities.

I congratulate the 10 LNP members on the Gold Coast, including the Premier, and the newly elected Hermann Vorster for Burleigh, as well as the eight incumbent MPs from the Gold Coast region who were re-elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Some of them are now ministers of the Crown. I thank all the volunteers and supporters who backed their local MPs. I thank candidate Bianca Stone for her team's herculean efforts in Gaven, which fell just a few hundred votes short this time.

But I wish to call out the very bad behaviour of the sitting Labor member in the electorate of Mansfield in Brisbane. We saw her and the Transport Workers' Union verbally abuse, bully, intimidate and conduct a defamatory campaign against the LNP candidate through social media and letterboxing. A widely respected leader of the GOPIO community, Pinky Singh, who has an OAM for her dedication to her community, was a target of Labor's vile attacks. This type of behaviour is unacceptable, and I'm calling it out for what it is—a disgraceful reflection on a desperate Labor Party.