LANGBROEK ON THE GC MAYOR RACE

BECAUSE now is the time to start preparing your campaign for the next mayoral race, names keeping popping up. The most regular is Surfers Paradise MP John-Paul Langbroek. Would the exOpposition leader and probably most affable and well-known bloke in local politics put his hand up if Tom Tate did not embark on a fourth term?

“Tom has said he is going to (run), I still love my day-to-day job. Nothing made me more aware of it having to miss sitting two weeks including the voluntary assisted dying week (new law debate) because I was in Melbourne at my father’s funeral,” he said. “I missed Parliament and the stuff I do whether it’s as a shadow minister or an MP. Tom is the mayor, there’s three years to go, I’m very happy and contented with (Opposition leader) David Crisafulli and the direction he is taking.”