COST OF LIVING
COMMITMENT: Gold Coast residents and businesses are paying up to $2500 for power. What guarantee — money wise — can you give that power bills will be lower?
LNP: The LNP will deliver cheaper electricity prices saving a typical family $780 over the next three years.
LABOR: Modelling by ACIL Allen shows our actions have reduced bill increases by $146 this year and $210 next year. Further, a re-elected Palaszczuk government would ensure bills for households and small business will not increase above CPI for the next two years. Queensland households will also receive a $50 a year rebate over the next two years.
COMMITMENT: A Department of Energy and Water report has found a new “ultra-supercritical” power station would be profitable. Will you support
Premier Annastacia Palaszcuk and Tim Nicholls listened, and today the Bulletin provides their promises.
The biggest win for the Coast is in transport with the LNP agreeing to build a second Pacific Motorway. Labor agreed to significantly upgrade sections of the M1.
Both are committed to a business case for stage 3 of the light rail south.
The LNP has announced the Coast will get the extra 50 police it needs and will consider giving the Coomera station its own district status.
It will also bring back bikie-busting laws. help building a privatepublic power station in north Queensland?
LNP: Yes. The LNP will build with the private sector a state-of-the-art, highefficiency, low-emissions coal-fired power station in North Queensland.
LABOR: The DEWS report found that an UltraSupercritical Coal power station would only be viable under sustained high wholesale energy prices over the 40-year life of the plant. Energy experts and industry investors won’t back building a new coal-fired power station in Queensland. its
Asked to begin planning for a new hospital in the city’s north, the LNP will deliver a Hospital Planning Commission to deliver better health services for the areas of highest need. Labor revealed it has purchased 13.5 hectares adjacent to Coomera Station in anticipation of future growth.
Labor promises power bills will drop by $210 next year and Queensland households will also receive a $50 a year rebate over the next two years. The LNP estimates savings of $780 to families across three years.