The high-profile pledges land with early voting set to open Monday, and LNP efforts to beat the third-term Labor government to only its third win in 35 years.
Queensland Premier Steven Miles has promised to foot the $365 million bill to deliver 50 new bulk-billing GP clinics, as the LNP conceded plans for a new south-east water supply dam.Campaigning in Longreach to spruik his party’s water security pitch on Saturday, Crisafulli said the plan would include new weirs in the west and Burnett, and irrigation planning in the Scenic Rim.
Labor’s plan proposed a multibillion-dollar desalination plant north of Brisbane by 2035 to meet demand, but kept use of the existing recycled water scheme for residential use only as dams dry up.Pressed by journalists, he conceded his ruling-out of recycled water referred only to new infrastructure – not the existing scheme.
Questions of size and location would be determined by the review carried out by water spokesperson Deb Frecklington.Premier Steven Miles at the Mareeba District Hospital with Health Minister Shannon Fentiman during the state election campaign on Thursday. Speaking from the Gold Coast, Miles described the idea of a new south-east dam as “extraordinary”, claiming the best location would be the
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