Today I had the opportunity to have Coffee with LNP Cairns Candidate 31 year old Joel Harrop . I was pleasantly surprised with how candid he was on some of the Issues;
Daylight Savings;
“It is a geographical issue, personally in Cairns it would be absurd, South East QLD may one day dictate a hybrid system but should it be suggested for Cairns I would fight tooth & nail to stop it”
“It is a geographical issue, personally in Cairns it would be absurd, South East QLD may one day dictate a hybrid system but should it be suggested for Cairns I would fight tooth & nail to stop it”
Recycled Water;
“It shouldn’t be pumped into drinking water, it should only be for industrial and grey water use”.
Prisoners in work camps;
“There is scope to make prisoners into more productive members of society”
Abortion;
“There is no policy ATM”
Privatising schools;
“Private schools do take the pressure of funding off government, however every child should be able to obtain a quality public education”.
ABC Rescue package;
“It is not the place of government to bail out organisations that have not been economically well managed”.
Reducing cost of land for first home buyers;
“Assistance packages can feed inflation however the cost of housing is a problem, it is out of control. This is a policy area we are working on”
Would he be prepared to have an independent speaker;
“Yes, I have absolutely no problem with that I would be very comfortable with an independent speaker”.
Stance on Heritage;
“If you go to Europe and walk down one of the streets there are buildings everywhere hundreds of years old, the Yacht Club was a terrible shame where was the benefit to the public? If it was something to benefit the community I could understand but all that happened was some rich guy got richer”.
Plans to deal with farm run off to the Great Barrier Reef;
“Environmental policy is still being firmed up”.
Joel lives in Cairns with his wife and 12 week old son, he has a Business degree from JCU.
Now maybe next week I can pin down Desley for her views on the above topics.
“It shouldn’t be pumped into drinking water, it should only be for industrial and grey water use”.
Prisoners in work camps;
“There is scope to make prisoners into more productive members of society”
Abortion;
“There is no policy ATM”
Privatising schools;
“Private schools do take the pressure of funding off government, however every child should be able to obtain a quality public education”.
ABC Rescue package;
“It is not the place of government to bail out organisations that have not been economically well managed”.
Reducing cost of land for first home buyers;
“Assistance packages can feed inflation however the cost of housing is a problem, it is out of control. This is a policy area we are working on”
Would he be prepared to have an independent speaker;
“Yes, I have absolutely no problem with that I would be very comfortable with an independent speaker”.
Stance on Heritage;
“If you go to Europe and walk down one of the streets there are buildings everywhere hundreds of years old, the Yacht Club was a terrible shame where was the benefit to the public? If it was something to benefit the community I could understand but all that happened was some rich guy got richer”.
Plans to deal with farm run off to the Great Barrier Reef;
“Environmental policy is still being firmed up”.
Joel lives in Cairns with his wife and 12 week old son, he has a Business degree from JCU.
Now maybe next week I can pin down Desley for her views on the above topics.
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