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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
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Gators’ Auction Success
The Mareeba Gladiators held their annual jersey auction last Friday night, with the club raising $12,850. Jersey number 9 (hooker position) was bought for $1,100 by the Mareeba RSL, which was the overall top price. Turn to page 27 for more. Pictured: Andrew Foster (President), Apenisa (Ben) Cokanasiga and David Grainer (Coach).
‘Thanks for voting’ By Carl Portella Queensland State Opposition leader Lawrence Springborg, flanked by both deputy, JohnPaul Langbroek and assistant shadow minister for North Queensland Jason Costigan, paid a flying visit to Mareeba last Tuesday March 3; as part of their statewide tour to thank more than one million people who voted for the LNP at the election. “We’re here to thank more than one million people throughout Queensland who voted for
us at the election,” he said. “No other party got that amount of votes, but the way the preferences went; obviously not enough to win, but still a significant number. “Over the next few weeks, we will make our way around the state, talking to people about what they liked about our campaign and what we need to change. “Unfortunately, good hard working people like David Kempton got washed away with the changes; and we are here to see what we can do at the next election to change that.
“The public voted the way they did because of the attitude of the government, not the performance of the government. “What we have to do is make sure we do change. “From an opposition perspective, we don’t intend to be a typical negative opposition; we will give credit where credit is due and we plan to keep the government accountable of its promises, of which there weren’t many. “They told the public what the were not going to do; not what they were going to do, they probably got the biggest
surprise of all when they got into office. “We will have a very strong focus on jobs, employment and infrastructure; things that will be crucial to the state going forward.” When asked about preferential voting, Mr Springborg had this to say: “When you look at the 89 seats, in 51 of those seats, the LNP came first. “We do have a system of preferential voting, but it just didn’t go in our favour and we accept that. Continued page 3
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