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Town Hall Meeting to discuss Gympie’s Health Crisis
Our health services are in crisis, and we are constantly having services close down. I have invited the Leader of the Opposition, David Crisafulli and the Shadow Minster for Health and Ambulance Services Ros Bates to hear firsthand the experiences of locals. A Health...
APPROPRIATION (PARLIAMENT) BILL APPROPRIATION BILL REVENUE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL
Mr PERRETT (Gympie—LNP) (2.36 pm): I rise to speak on the 2022 budget. This government is riddled with integrity and transparency issues, and that character is written throughout this budget. It treats the trust of Queenslanders with contempt. It treats Gympie with...
Government refuses to deliver new hospital for Gympie in its $9.78 billion spend
The Budget fails the residents of the Gympie region. Despite an eye watering extra $9.78 billion investment in new hospital and extra beds the government has refused to fast track the process to deliver a new hospital for Gympie and will not commit to an ambulance...
Closure of fracture ward is a blow for Cooloola Coast patients
The closure of the ‘Fracture Clinic’ at Gympie Hospital will significantly disadvantage Cooloola Coast patients. Right across the board services are under stress and patients are transferred or told to travel 100 kilometres to a hospital at the southern end of the...
State Government must deliver for our sporting facilities
I don’t begrudge the Caboolture Snakes support, but the State Government must deliver for Gympie. Across the entire region the current poor state of our sports facilities has been made glaringly obvious following the floods. This is a growing region with families...
Floods have made it even more obvious that the State Budget must deliver for the Gympie region
The State Labor Government must deliver real and genuine investment to the Gympie region in next week’s State Budget. This year’s floods have made it even more obvious that investment should be on local infrastructure projects, ongoing flood recovery, future-proofing...