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506 Private Members’ Statements 7 Mar 2013 seen in recent times though is a culture where these little grubs taunt police. They go up beside police, spin their wheels and rev their engines and know that they can speed away because they are a protected species. That has to end. I understand that we need to find a balance between the tragedy of an innocent person being killed in a chase and the open slather that is occurring now. I suppose the question to my community is: is the risk of having these turkeys racing around at 200 kilometres an hour on suburban streets a greater danger than a police pursuit or the threat of a police pursuit? That is the question I want to pose today. Has the pendulum swung too far in the other direction? It is a conversation we must have. It is something that the officers on the ground are best placed to make a decision on. I would hope that their input is paramount as this debate unfolds. Above all, all I want is a safe city for my kids to be able to drive around in into the future. Public Transport, Buses Ms TRAD (South Brisbane—ALP) (2.54 pm): I rise to speak about the shambles that is the Newman government’s bus review. In July last year the transport minister announced that he had instructed TransLink to review all bus services in South-East Queensland, with the final report to be delivered within six months. Eight months later and today the transport minister has finally released his shambolic response. The LNP’s review was based on only two criteria—patronage and cost benefit. This sounds great in a news grab, but it leaves no room to help those who need it most—pensioners who catch a bus to the doctors or students who travel to their weekend jobs. The daytime and weekend services these Queenslanders rely on are not always full, but they are essential. Based on this flawed reasoning, today we find out that the government is axing 111 routes, with massive cuts to frequency and running times. It was little wonder, given the extent of the savage cuts, that the recommendations were only open for community feedback for two weeks right before Christmas. That is right, the extent of this government’s consultation was sticking its plan on a difficult-to-use website for two weeks and hoping people would accidentally stumble upon it. The LNP has left commuters behind on this issue. Queensland commuters even after today’s announcement are left wondering when their routes will be cut and how they will be affected. That is why this week Labor launched a petition calling on the Newman LNP government to stop the cuts to local bus services. Any cuts to services will only hurt those most in need of accessible and reliable public transport. Mr Minnikin interjected. Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER (Miss Barton): Order! Member for Chatsworth, the member for South Brisbane is not taking your interjections and I would ask you to please stop interjecting across the chamber and let her be heard in silence. The member for South Brisbane has the call. Ms TRAD: Any cuts to services will only hurt those most in need of accessible and reliable public transport—pensioners, students, families; particularly those with lower incomes. Within 24 hours of launching the petitions we have beaten our goal of 500 signatures. At last count the total was 628. Indeed, earlier today I did table in this House a petition with over 800 signatures from those in the bay suburbs. There is no doubt that our public transport network should continually be reviewed to ensure efficiency and effectiveness, but when you conduct a review you should actually talk to the people who are going to be affected. Clearly, those opposite—particularly the transport minister and the assistant minister—do not want to listen to the concerns of working Queenslanders. They will not listen to bus drivers about bus safety and now they will not listen to commuters before they cut the buses— Mr Minnikin interjected. Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Member for Chatsworth, I have asked you to stop interjecting across the chamber and have told you that the member for South Brisbane is not taking interjections. I would ask that you please heed my ruling. The member for South Brisbane has the call.
7 Mar 2013 Private Members’ Statements 507 Ms TRAD: The minister and assistant minister will not listen to bus drivers about bus safety and now they will not listen to commuters before they cut the buses they rely upon. Public transport, just like public health or public education, should not be about turning a profit—it should be about people. Quite frankly, what is happening here is this government is running down the public transport system to sell it to the highest bidder. It is plain and clear for all to see. Mr Bleijie interjected. Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Mr Attorney, you are not in your correct seat! Queensland Plan Mr SHUTTLEWORTH (Ferny Grove—LNP) (2.57 pm): I rise this afternoon to speak briefly about my support for the Queensland Plan and encourage my 88 colleagues in this House to provide support to the Queensland Plan. We heard earlier today about the collaborative and inclusive approach to undertake a review and determine the 30-year future for Queensland. I would like to briefly outline why I am speaking today—the day when obviously everyone has had a briefing on this. After the Premier made his announcement I thought straight off the bat that this was going to be an initiative where we could all at a local level engage very actively and efficiently with our communities to bring them along on this very exciting ride of looking at the future in Queensland. What we have produced in Ferny Grove is a brochure that went to the distributor on Monday of this week. Around 12,000 brochures will be delivered over the course of the weekend and early next week. We have also purchased full-page ads in the local papers—the Samford Village Pump and the Hills Echo. Hopefully this will ensure there is blanket coverage across the electorate inviting all members of the electorate, from whichever politic sphere or whichever community group they represent, to engage actively with my office and express their concern about the way we are heading or how they would like the future to unravel. As a result of that, in late April I will be holding a community forum at one of the local school halls, the Ralph Took Auditorium, which holds about 350 people. I am very encouraged by the early indications that we already have a number of people registering their interest. Hopefully as a result of the survey, which will go out this coming week, we will receive a number of initiatives across a number of departments and we will be able to establish smaller, focused groups to fully develop their plan that we will be able to take to the summit in Mackay in May and also to the second summit later in the year in September. As I said, I am very encouraged by the early indications of interest throughout the community. I actively encourage all 88 of my colleagues in this House to also engage with their local electorates to ensure that at the end of this process we have a very meaningful, collaborative and inclusive design for the future of Queensland that will be to the betterment of all of our local districts as well. South-East Queensland, Waterways Ms MILLARD (Sandgate—LNP) (3.00 pm): I rise today in the House to speak about a topic that has long been close to me and that clearly affects the Sandgate electorate—and that is protecting South-East Queensland’s waterways. It has been estimated that the waterways of South- East Queensland have environmental, social and economic values worth around $5 billion each year, so keeping our waterways healthy for recreational use and ecological sustainability is a weighty issue. Unhealthy waterways are costly on many levels, and this has attracted the attention of all three levels of government through many programs and numerous buckets of money, and with engagement from a range of experts. Cabbage Tree Creek catchment, which covers 45 square kilometres through the residential and industrial areas of northern Brisbane to Moreton Bay, has had its own fair share of attention. Nonetheless, having been a Sandgate local for 15 years and from my very early days of pre-election campaigning, it became clear that programs for our local waterways were numerous, disparate, lacked coordination, involved limited community consultation and indicated some duplication. And before I make it sound like the answers are all very simple, let me make it clear that my own factfinding mission has been a little like sweeping the leaves from the forest floor. Snippets of information keep falling and you can never quite get the clean-up started, but one has to start somewhere and I have done just that. So what is an MP like me who is not a water expert doing dabbling in water issues? I am working for my community and, despite routine water testing by our local council, upgrades to the Sandgate sewerage plant and a newly introduced SMS warning system, which are all appropriate and
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