State Government Election 2024 ment Election 2024
Peta Higgs
The Greens
As a doctor, I see the impact the cost of living crisis is having on people’s health every day. People putting off going to the doctor because they can’t find one that bulk bills.
People who can’t afford to go to the dentist or specialist at all. People skipping meals just to pay their rent or mortgage.
I see how much my patients are struggling every day. They’re struggling to pay rent, they’re struggling to pay for the healthcare they need and they’re struggling with the impact of climate change on our communities with more floods, heatwaves and severe weather every season.
Here on the Sunshine Coast, only one in thirty GPs are bulk-billing new patients — and the average consultation puts people $55 out of pocket. Healthcare costs are skyrocketing in the middle of a cost of living crisis and every year fewer and fewer GPs are bulk billing.
At the current rate, there’ll be none on the Sunshine
Coast by 2030. That’s why my priority is making essential healthcare truly free — for everyone.
The Greens have a plan to invest $4.8 billion in our public health system by making big mining corporations pay their fair share by increasing royalties in line with other OECD nations..
Jason Hunt
Australian Labor Party
With that we’ll build 200 publicly funded GP clinics to make sure everyone can see a bulk-billing GP.
These clinics will be staffed with publiclyemployed, salaried GPs, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists and more and be open seven days a week and at hours everyone can make an appointment.
The lack of bulk-billing GPs also means our public hospitals, especially emergency departments, end up bearing the brunt of the public’s health needs. That’s why we’ll also fully fund public hospitals, delivering 2,000 more hospital beds and ending ambulance ramping.
Since I was elected as your local member in 2020, I’ve been working hard to deliver the infrastructure that our community needs to keep up with our growing population. We’ve delivered the mighty Bells Creek Arterial Road, traffic lights at dangerous intersections at Peachester and Ridgewood Road, upgrades to the Steve Irwin Way, and locked in funding for Stage one of the Sunshine Coast Direct Rail line which will take hundreds of cars off the Bruce and Sunshine Coast roads.
Its no secret that transport is a key priority for our region but an MP can’t be a one trick pony, so I will continue to work for the best outcomes that our community needs across a whole range of areas and my track record is actually pretty good. When I commit to a project like rail, a new road, a new school, or a new police station they get delivered. I have opened more schools in our electorate than the LNP opened in Queensland last time they were in power…
and that’s a fact. It’s one thing for a party to make a commitment it’s quite another to have a record for delivering it, and I think the same applies to costing and funding. This election every party needs to be upfront about costs and funding and if they can’t demonstrate where the money comes from it only means cuts, cuts and more cuts.
I also want to protect hard won but transformative changes like decriminalising abortion and maintaining voluntary assisted dying. Recent reports show the LNP is anything but united on these issues and I don’t want to see them overturned. We know our region is going to get bigger, but it has to get better as well, our environment needs protection and health system needs expanding, our schools need support and our families need a affordable place to live.
I have made significant progress in all of those areas and with your support I’d love to keep working for you after October 26.
Kendall Morton
Liberal National Party
I have spent a year door knocking and calling people in this community, and I know the LNP’s priorities are your priorities. What I have heard time and time again, is that people are sick of traffic congestion, youth crime and cost-of-living; and nothing being done about it.
If the LNP are elected later this month, my top priority will be to work in an LNP Government who are completely focused on fixing these issues.
Recently I announced a $400 million congestionbusting traffic plan to end the Caloundra carpark and get Caloundra Road moving again.
I also recently announced much needed funding to upgrade the facilities at the Landsborough Community Kindy, as well as funding for fairway irrigation and the securing of a 99-year lease for the Beerwah Golf Club.
This will ensure the security and stability of the Golf Club regardless of what developments may go ahead in the future.
As part of the Crisafulli LNP team, we have also
committed to delivering fi key priorities as part of The Right Plan for Queensland’s future. We will restore safety where you live through stronger laws like Adult Crime, Adult Time and gold standard early intervention. We will reinstate health services when you need them by axing Labor’s Patients’ Tax, a tax which doctors have said will end bulk billing and make GP visits more expensive.
We will return respect for your money by stopping Labor’s expensive budget blowouts which are pushing up costs for families.
We will re-imagine a place to call home by abolishing stamp duty on new builds for first home buyers.
We will redesign a government that works for you by addressing challenges for the long term, not just providing band-aid solutions at election time.
Our plan for Caloundra will make this electorate an even better place to live, work and raise a family.
Alison McMasters Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party Mike Jessop Independent
Legalising Cannabis is our only policy. This in turn would have many positive effects on the people of Queensland who clearly want legalisation to happen.
The pharmaceutical delivery system in place for legal cannabis products has never been fit for purpose. Access and products are beyond the reach of too many Queenslanders who are financially vulnerable but who could have a much better quality of life using a natural herbal product but who are forced to stay on addictive and dangerous pharmaceutical drugs or use the black market.
Patients who are prescribed cannabis via the legal pathway are still being discriminated against
in the workplace and on the roads. Cannabis must be treated in the same way as other schedule 8 drugs when it comes to RANDOM workplace and roadside drug tests.
Our 3 stage implementation policy will allow adults to take responsibility for their health and social choices from stage 1.
In the ACT where home growth of cannabis has been legal for 4 years, a recent review of the outcomes states that the changes have shown no evidence of an increase in the number of people using cannabis; nor does not appear to have directly resulted in any major increases or decreases
in cannabisrelated presentations to ambulances or hospital admissions. It’s time Qld stopped making criminals of good people.
The other major focus for the Party is boosting the hemp industry by removing the red tape from licensing. Hemp as a commodity could be an economic and environmental power house for Queensland.
Hemp as a building material is fire resistant, a natural insulator that continues to absorb Co2 as it cures. We would be encouraging investment in value added manufacturing to boost employment. See our other policy statements here www.lcqparty.org
Gambling Reform
I believe we need to restrict hours gaming lounges are open and limit the token input.
We need to restrict gaming room opening hours limiting wagers to modest bets or wagers that can only be placed using tokens managed personally by supervising staff Domestic Violence
Guilty until proven innocent reform for civil allegations such as domestic violence. There should be civil penalties e.g. a fine or compensation. Automatic Motel/ Backpacker Rezoning / Material Change of Use Planning
Permission to create more of the type of
accommodation homeless would otherwise occupy having a mandatory proportion of land made available for planning purposes.
I suggest we rebuild our economy as a priority and vital necessity.
I will ensure there is pre-ordained planning permission for industrial manufacturing premises in the right location in every electorate.
My 37 years experience as a business owner means I will bring opportunities that are available to the neglected wealth and tax generation and manufacturing sector making it easier to set up and run a business which all employment wealth and tax
generation is based upon.
I will also introduce automatic planning permission for motel style backpackers for the homeless and get actively involved in reducing the cost of government charges.
Effective two way communication, and the ability to communicate directly with your elected representative is vitally important to me.
I can be contacted via MikeWhigparty on Facebook or Instagram. Alternatively email mike@ whigparty.com.au or check out whigparty.com.au or just give me a call on 0416 293 686.
