Jul 15, 2022 | Media Releases
A parliamentary petition against the proposed closure of the Gympie Connection Road has been posted to the Queensland Parliamentary website. Member for Gympie Tony Perrett has sponsored the petition, on behalf of the principal petitioner Linda Lawson. It will close on...Jun 28, 2022 | Media Releases
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...Jun 21, 2022 | Media Releases
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...Jun 17, 2022 | Media Releases
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...Jun 16, 2022 | Media Releases
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...Jun 16, 2022 | Media Releases
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...