Adjournment Speech - Tuesday 21 April 2026

I rise to call out this LNP government for its failure on fuel affordability and on roads.

Locals expect this government to actually do their job.

Locals want fewer slick slogans and taxpayer funded ads, fewer photo-ops and more follow-up, less blaming of workers and more doing the job that they are paid to do—to build the infrastructure communities need before their roads reach breaking point; to put the buses and the trains where commuters need them; to do something, anything, urgently about fuel affordability; and to keep their promises on cost of living, rather than jacking up car rego by 24 per cent whilst the government rakes in billions in royalties.

Follow-up is not happening under this LNP government. Beenleigh-Redland Bay Road and Mount Cotton Road are under significant strain.

Commuters are frustrated, stranded and at risk.

We are seeing expanding activity at Barro and Karreman quarries and growth at the Golden Cockerel processing plant. Labor in government, on the other hand, funded intersection and road upgrades.

Labor's budgets funded planning and consultation for the next stage and they funded car rego relief.

However, under this LNP government, momentum has been lost.

Is this LNP government delaying projects that are so clearly needed in our community? Whilst the Crisafulli LNP government delays, the risk of serious accidents continues to rise, and there is zero relief coming from this LNP government on fuel costs for motorists.

We have seen the LNP rail fail, the LNP rego fail, the LNP bus fail, the LNP fuel fail and now we have the LNP roads fail. This is a government focused on nothing more than photo-ops and rhyming slogans.

Budgets demonstrate what matters. With the state budget around the corner, we are saying to this LNP government that our community matters, that our community deserves the safe road infrastructure that keeps up, not a government that walks away from the work that has already been done.

Our community makes clear our calls on this LNP government to cease its delays, our calls to restart the work on roads, to deliver the funding in this year's budget for those roads and get off its hands and help with fuel costs for motorists today.