Angie Bell (Moncrieff, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The good people of Moncrieff are working hard to build a better future for their families. They know that the Morrison government has their back. The federal budget delivers just that. There is, however, a lingering cause for anxiety as they look north to Brisbane and the Palaszczuk state government. They know that the Palaszczuk-Trad experiment that had ploughed Queensland well before the pandemic struck holds no hope for recovery now. They have also had a taste of Labor incompetence locally. In Australia's capital of tourism on the Gold Coast, the Assistant Minister for Tourism Industry Development, the member for Gaven, Meaghan Scanlon, appointed by Premier Palaszczuk, has been absent. Apologies, I misspoke. Let me correct the record. It's pretty clear that Palaszczuk's factional and union masters don't allow her to appoint ministers. Let's face it: even if the Queensland Premier does appoint more dud ministers, it's only a matter of time before she blames her chief medical officer for those decisions, just like with her callous border decisions.

But I digress. I come back to my point—that the state member for Gaven has failed to stand up for the Gold Coast and for tourism jobs. She's failed to stand up for the very industry that she's supposed to fight for. Of course, on the Gold Coast, there's a different title for the Premier and her assistant tourism minister, and that's 'Palaszczuk, chief economy wrecker, and her assistant minister for tourism industry destruction'. Gold Coasters who care about jobs— (Time expired)