John-Paul Langbroek MP News - John-Paul Langbroek

LNP Leader Deb Frecklington said that news today the racing industry will officially strike on Saturday shows the contempt Annastacia Palaszczuk has for racing.

LNP Shadow Minister for Racing John-Paul Langbroek has called on the Premier to urgently step in to avert strikes on Cox Cup and Melbourne Cup Days following failed negotiations between the industry and the Labor Government.

The unprecedented action to trigger state-wide strikes is a last ditch effort by the Queensland racing industry strangled by Labor’s $367million racing tax.

LNP Shadow Racing Minister John-Paul Langbroek has said the racing industry has completely lost confidence in the Palaszczuk Labor Government following reports of a state-wide strike planned for Cox Plate Day and Melbourne Cup Day.

The Palaszczuk Government’s new 15 per cent betting tax is set to deliver a body blow to Queensland’s struggling racing industry, the LNP warned today.

Member for Surfers Paradise, John-Paul Langbroek, has called for an end to a standoff between the State Government and the Gold Coast City Council about dangerous footpaths along Bundall Road.

LNP Member for Surfers Paradise John-Paul Langbroek has labelled Labor’s State Budget as a ‘rip off’ after it was revealed that the Labor State Government will slug Queenslanders with five new taxes and four new fees and charges.

Liberal National Party Leader Deb Frecklington today slammed the Labor Government for attacking our footy clubs in a lazy attempt to shift blame over exorbitant stadium fees.

Labor’s Sport Minister, Mick de Brenni, has been slammed for refusing to consider planning any boutique soccer stadiums, blaming the Brisbane Roar’s Men’s Team’s “lacklustre performance”, just four days after the Roar’s Women’s Team won their third Premiership.

Under do-nothing Labor, category 3 elective surgery waiting times have blown out from 156 days to 211 days in the last 12 months.