Terry Young (Longman, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

This week, like much of Queensland, my electorate of Longman has been literally belted by storm after storm. The community has endured very high winds, rain and hail. Many of the trees have come down. There has been debris causing damage to fences and homes, as well as roofs being literally blown off. This has resulted in many homes being without power and mobile coverage, and, of course, the mobile towers need power to operate.

My office and I have been communicating with state and local members as well as Energex and telcos to keep the residents up to date. I received, 20 minutes ago, another alert that another storm with damaging winds and hail is due this afternoon. There are aged-care facilities and over-50s villages, in particular, on Bribie Island and Beachmere that still have no power, and residents are distressed. There's no respite in temperatures that are nearing 40 degrees, with extreme humidity on the horizon. I'm asking the responsible minister, Minister Wells, if she can update what the federal government are doing to assist these vulnerable residents.

Locally, I'm working with the local community organisations to try and source and deliver food and water to residents. If anyone's willing to help out tomorrow when this latest storm passes, please contact my office, and please stay safe everyone.

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