“It’s a no-brainer.”
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Crisafulli – who has made crime his election focus – promised infrastructure and flood resilience funding, less red tape, and support to provide the services and utilities required for new housing developments.
“However you’ve voted before, however you’ll vote in the future, I’m asking you this time to vote for change,” he told several hundred LGAQ delegates.
“Vote for change for yourself, for your community, for your level of government … for a fresh start in a relationship between the state and local governments.”
While the LNP council has worked with state and federal Labor governments – for example, on plans for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and a proposed Metro funding shift – the lord mayor suggested an LNP government would produce better outcomes.
“Our residents deserve a state government willing to work with us to keep Brisbane moving, not play silly political games to slow vital projects like we saw with Brisbane Metro and the former transport minister,” he said, referring to an ongoing dispute over the role the Metro should play in the public transport network.
Schrinner also called for an end to cost-shifting to local councils.
“For example, just recently Brisbane’s share of a $100 million south-east Queensland infrastructure fund for councils was capped at a miserly seven per cent, despite the fact we have more than 30 per cent of the region’s population,” he said.
“I look forward to a fresh start under a new state government led by David Crisafulli, who is a former deputy mayor and councillor and knows the critical role local governments play delivering for residents.”
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The latest Resolve poll, conducted exclusively for this masthead, showed Labor closing the gap on the LNP, with significant variation in the results between urban areas and the regions.
Crisafulli – who had previously acknowledged the need for Queensland to have “a vibrant capital city” – said the poll showed the election would be close.
“This state needs a fresh start, and we are united, we are focused,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
“I’m asking Queenslanders, don’t risk a fourth term and 14 years in office.”
