Instability is rife

THE latest rumblings of upheaval in the Queensland LNP is not unexpected, nor surprising.

Since the day the National Party surrendered all power and ideals to their Liberal Party colleagues, country Queensland has been forgotten. Now expremier Campbell Newman has come out of the woodwork to stir the pot by his comments on Deb Frecklington and her chances of winning the next election.

Mr Newman in his retirement as a politician needs to endeavour to improve facts and content for a wide range of subjects.

Particularly when as the-then leader of the LNP, who had an 80-plus seat majority when coming to power, he managed to lose government with just one term under his belt.

He looked after the southeast corner of the state only and country Queensland was forgotten. You can say the same of David Crisafulli, who left North Queensland to try and bolster his chances of leadership by shifting to the Gold Coast. Instability is rife in the current opposition.

Country Queensland and particularly North Queensland have another party, a third alternative to improve things and boy do we need a change for the better soon. Currently, only the Katter Party representatives have achieved some success for country Queensland. Under the last LNP government we received less than under the present Labor government. It is high time the people living north of Brisbane woke up and supported a party that represented us.

Like myself, you may not agree with everything the Katter Party stands for, but it is a better alternative than what we have currently and what we have had in the past.

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