The federal Coalition have written off Queensland electorates, Queensland infrastructure, and they’ve written Queenslanders right out of the federal budget.
In return, Queenslanders are being urged to write off the Scott Morrison federal LNP government when the country goes to the polls as early as next month.
That’s the message from Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Planning Cameron Dick, who has called last night’s federal budget one designed to save LNP seats for opposition, not one to win an election.
“Forget Queensland seats Petrie, Lilley, Flynn, Forde, Dawson, Capricornia, Herbert, Leichardt – the LNP has written them off,” Mr Dick said.
“Instead, we see $2 billion for fast rail to Geelong. A town that has half the population of the Gold Coast and two-thirds the population of the Sunshine Coast.
“Fast rail to Geelong is the answer to a question that no one was asking.
“No one supports this project, except for one person – Sarah Henderson, federal member for Corangamite and Josh Frydenberg’s factional ally, who currently sits on a wafer-thin margin.
“And when it comes to the ‘³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ Rail Program’, what does Queensland get? We get less than half what New South Wales gets,” he said.
“The federal budget invests money in Wi-Fi for trains between Hornsby and Wyong in NSW but has no new money for urban rail in Queensland.
“Meanwhile, Queenslanders better get used to waiting for road funding, as new money won’t reach our state until 2022-23.
“Queenslanders would have to vote for Scott Morrison not once, but twice, to get anything out of this budget.
“This was a budget where the federal treasurer said the word ‘Queensland’ just once, and it shows the total disregard the prime minister and his government have for Queensland.”
