House of Representatives
Tuesday 6 October 2020

The people of Queensland have a clear choice on 31 October—a Labor government led by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk with a strong economic plan to unite and recover our state post the COVID pandemic or an LNP government that is a risk to our economy. The LNP plan for Queensland is to sack frontline workers, cut essential services and sell our state's essential assets. Yesterday, we saw the Queensland divisions of the Liberal and National parties announce for the very first time that they will be preferencing One Nation and the Greens in every seat before the Labor Party. The LNP have already confirmed that they will cut thousands of frontline health jobs in the coming years, just as they did when they were last in government. The Palaszczuk government have a real infrastructure plan, with funding locked in that delivers jobs and a strong economic outcome for Queensland. But this is all at risk as a result of this preference arrangement. These preference arrangements risk bringing into place a ragtag coalition of LNP, One Nation, Clive Palmer and, now, the Greens.

So when the National Party get up in this place and talk about the Greens being the worst people in the world, they are potentially delivering Greens seats into the Queensland parliament. We are seeing One Nation members of parliament, potentially, because the Liberals in Queensland are delivering potential seats into the government. This is a recipe for chaos. I call on the Prime Minister, just as John Howard did, to stand up to One Nation in Queensland.