The Tweed needs a change of Government in Canberra, State member for Tweed Geoff Provest told a meeting of the federal Parliamentary Nationals in Tweed Heads on Monday morning.Mr Provest was invited to address the meeting by Nationals Leader Warren Truss.“The O’Farrell State Government is working hard to make life better for Tweed locals, but we are undermined by bad federal policy,” Mr Provest said.“We have brought in generous electricity bill rebates, but power bills will rise by a further 17 per cent in July, largely because of the Gillard/Greens carbon tax.”“We have boosted nurse and specialist numbers at our Tweed Hospital to cut waiting times, but the Gillard Government is ratcheting up the pressure on our public hospitals with its cuts to private health insurance rebates.”“That is why the best thing that could happen for the Tweed would be a change in Canberra next year.”Mr Provest told the MPs and senators that the local federal electorate a Richmond should be priority target for the Nationals because “the Labor experiment” had clearly failed locally.“Labor’s 7 per cent margin in Richmond might seem like a steep hill to climb but the local state MPs within the federal electorate won much greater swings than that in the 2010 State election,” Mr Provest concluded.
Nationals rally the troops
The Tweed needs a change of Government in Canberra, State member for Tweed Geoff Provest told a meeting of the federal Parliamentary Nationals in Tweed Heads on Monday morning.
Mr Provest was invited to address the meeting by Nationals Leader Warren Truss.
“The O’Farrell State Government is working hard to make life better for Tweed locals, but we are undermined by bad federal policy,” Mr Provest said.
“We have brought in generous electricity bill rebates, but power bills will rise by a further 17 per cent in July, largely because of the Gillard/Greens carbon tax.”
“We have boosted nurse and specialist numbers at our Tweed Hospital to cut waiting times, but the Gillard Government is ratcheting up the pressure on our public hospitals with its cuts to private health insurance rebates.”
“That is why the best thing that could happen for the Tweed would be a change in Canberra next year.”
Mr Provest told the MPs and senators that the local federal electorate a Richmond should be priority target for the Nationals because “the Labor experiment” had clearly failed locally.
“Labor’s 7 per cent margin in Richmond might seem like a steep hill to climb but the local state MPs within the federal electorate won much greater swings than that in the 2010 State election,” Mr Provest concluded.
