AUG2010 PETER DUTTON
– Working Hard for Families
It’s a tough time in our community at the moment. bills are rising rapidly, it’s impossible not to notice and difficult to keep up with. From power to petrol, rents and rates, water costs and mortgages – all have risen sharply over the last three years and cost-of-living pressures look like they will only keep on the increase.
Families and seniors in particular will be worried about how they balance their household budgets. But equally we need to be concerned about how the national budget is managed because decisions taken at the national level trickle down to the costs we have to worry about as we seek to pay our bills.
So the question the people of Dickson need to ask over the next few weeks is: Are you better off under Labor than you were three years ago under the Coalition? The important decision the people of Dickson must then make is about whom you want to send to Canberra to represent you for the next three years.
Since 2001 I have worked extremely hard for the people of Pine Rivers and helped thousands of families and small businesses and I ask local residents to consider seriously who would be the best and most credentialed local member going forward.
I have watched the areas that form the electorate of Dickson grow since I was a child and as an MP assisted our communities, schools, sporting groups, businesses and other facilities develop and blossom into a vibrant part of south-east Queensland.
As first a member and then a Minister in the Howard Government, working closely with Peter Costello, I ensured that the needs of Dickson were met by the national government. Funding was provided for roads, education and water infrastructure. Families, jobs, business and the environment were all supported.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the Beattie-Bligh Labor Governments who have promised big and delivered little. Worse their decisions have had harmful impacts on our communities like the decision to close the Royal Children’s Hospital and move its wonderful facilities and staff to the southside of Brisbane. As Shadow Health Minister I am constantly left aghast at the constant failings of the Labor Government in the health arena. The sheer incompetence has risen to unbelievable levels when they admit they are unable to pay the wages of our doctors, nurses and other staff in our hospitals.
More needs to be done and I will fight for more local funding for issues like Young’s Crossing Road which needs to be upgraded, and for better broadband which remains a problem. Under Labor’s plans for a national broadband network a fix is years away. Had the Coalition been re-elected in 2007, Dayboro and surrounds would have had vastly improved broadband services for a year now. We will ensure better broadband services without wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer funds that Labor is so keen to spend.
At the end of last year we were able to ensure that the community gained the services of an extra doctor for Dayboro. Bureaucratic requirements almost robbed the community of this much needed additional medico.
Across the wider area the Coalition will provide $10 million to help ease traffic problems around Dohle’s Rocks Road with a new on-ramp at Murrumba Downs. Traffic congestion remains a major issue across the electorate with the Bligh Labor Government neglecting much needed upgrades for years.
Unfortunately I fear that the Rudd-Gillard Government will repeat, at a national level, the sort of mistakes that we have become all so familiar with in Queensland under first Peter Beattie and now Anna Bligh.
The Rudd-Gillard Government has been a bad government and already has shown that they can’t deliver on the promises they make and worse they cannot manage the programs they undertake.
Tens of thousands of homes were ripped off in the pink batts fiasco. The Government was warned time and time again that the whole home insulation program was dangerous, warnings that were ignored until, after four deaths and a rising number of house fires, the Prime Minister was forced to act – demoting Peter Garrett and closing the program down.
In Queensland at least 17 homes have caught fire from this program, one of them at Ferny Grove while nationwide nearly 200 have reported some type of fire incident caused by insulation problems.
Billions of dollars have been wasted on the so-called Building the Education Revolution (BER) program. Schools were forced to build halls or libraries that they didn’t need while real priorities were overlooked and many got far less than they should have for the dollars they paid out.
Labor just can’t manage money. Millions of dollars that could have gone to local schools has been squandered by Julia Gillard who, as Education Minister, oversaw the whole BER program.
Three years ago people in Dayboro and Pine Rivers felt secure and confident. The nation had $22 billion in surplus in the bank; billions more were stored in the Health, Education and Future Funds.
Now the surplus is gone and Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard have gone on a spending spree that leaves us all with a debt to repay.
After one term of Labor no-one feels better off than they were three years ago.
The issue of government competence will weigh heavily at this election.
The Rudd-Gillard Government’s record is one of waste, mismanagement and debt.
Labor is borrowing $100 million every single day to fund its reckless spending and its debt binge is hurting every one of us through increased cost of living expenses.
As the national debt continues to grow, so too does the upward pressure on interest rates and the threat of more taxes.
We all know that we can’t keep spending more than we earn, but that’s what’s happening in Canberra and as I noted at the outset – what happens to the national budget eventually hits the family budget.
This election is about ending the waste and repaying the debt and setting things straight, which only the Coalition will do. I would be grateful for your support.
So the question the people of Dickson need to ask over the next few weeks is: Are you better off under Labor than you were three years ago under the Coalition? The important decision the people of Dickson must then make is about whom you want to send to Canberra to represent you for the next three years.
Since 2001 I have worked extremely hard for the people of Pine Rivers and helped thousands of families and small businesses and I ask local residents to consider seriously who would be the best and most credentialed local member going forward.
I have watched the areas that form the electorate of Dickson grow since I was a child and as an MP assisted our communities, schools, sporting groups, businesses and other facilities develop and blossom into a vibrant part of south-east Queensland.
As first a member and then a Minister in the Howard Government, working closely with Peter Costello, I ensured that the needs of Dickson were met by the national government. Funding was provided for roads, education and water infrastructure. Families, jobs, business and the environment were all supported.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the Beattie-Bligh Labor Governments who have promised big and delivered little. Worse their decisions have had harmful impacts on our communities like the decision to close the Royal Children’s Hospital and move its wonderful facilities and staff to the southside of Brisbane. As Shadow Health Minister I am constantly left aghast at the constant failings of the Labor Government in the health arena. The sheer incompetence has risen to unbelievable levels when they admit they are unable to pay the wages of our doctors, nurses and other staff in our hospitals.
More needs to be done and I will fight for more local funding for issues like Young’s Crossing Road which needs to be upgraded, and for better broadband which remains a problem. Under Labor’s plans for a national broadband network a fix is years away. Had the Coalition been re-elected in 2007, Dayboro and surrounds would have had vastly improved broadband services for a year now. We will ensure better broadband services without wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer funds that Labor is so keen to spend.
At the end of last year we were able to ensure that the community gained the services of an extra doctor for Dayboro. Bureaucratic requirements almost robbed the community of this much needed additional medico.
Across the wider area the Coalition will provide $10 million to help ease traffic problems around Dohle’s Rocks Road with a new on-ramp at Murrumba Downs. Traffic congestion remains a major issue across the electorate with the Bligh Labor Government neglecting much needed upgrades for years.
Unfortunately I fear that the Rudd-Gillard Government will repeat, at a national level, the sort of mistakes that we have become all so familiar with in Queensland under first Peter Beattie and now Anna Bligh.
The Rudd-Gillard Government has been a bad government and already has shown that they can’t deliver on the promises they make and worse they cannot manage the programs they undertake.
Tens of thousands of homes were ripped off in the pink batts fiasco. The Government was warned time and time again that the whole home insulation program was dangerous, warnings that were ignored until, after four deaths and a rising number of house fires, the Prime Minister was forced to act – demoting Peter Garrett and closing the program down.
In Queensland at least 17 homes have caught fire from this program, one of them at Ferny Grove while nationwide nearly 200 have reported some type of fire incident caused by insulation problems.
Billions of dollars have been wasted on the so-called Building the Education Revolution (BER) program. Schools were forced to build halls or libraries that they didn’t need while real priorities were overlooked and many got far less than they should have for the dollars they paid out.
Labor just can’t manage money. Millions of dollars that could have gone to local schools has been squandered by Julia Gillard who, as Education Minister, oversaw the whole BER program.
Three years ago people in Dayboro and Pine Rivers felt secure and confident. The nation had $22 billion in surplus in the bank; billions more were stored in the Health, Education and Future Funds.
Now the surplus is gone and Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard have gone on a spending spree that leaves us all with a debt to repay.
After one term of Labor no-one feels better off than they were three years ago.
The issue of government competence will weigh heavily at this election.
The Rudd-Gillard Government’s record is one of waste, mismanagement and debt.
Labor is borrowing $100 million every single day to fund its reckless spending and its debt binge is hurting every one of us through increased cost of living expenses.
As the national debt continues to grow, so too does the upward pressure on interest rates and the threat of more taxes.
We all know that we can’t keep spending more than we earn, but that’s what’s happening in Canberra and as I noted at the outset – what happens to the national budget eventually hits the family budget.
This election is about ending the waste and repaying the debt and setting things straight, which only the Coalition will do. I would be grateful for your support.
