General News
20 April, 2025
LNP launches campaigns
NATIONALS Leader David Littleproud and Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, have launched the election campaigns of LNP candidate for Leichhardt Jeremy Neal, and candidate for Kennedy Annette Swaine.
Mr Littleproud said the two hopefuls for the 3 May Federal election would be assets for their communities, with Mr Neal working as a paramedic and Ms Swaine a former police officer and small business owner.
The LNP has so far pledged an $87.5 million Cairns Water Security Project, an Urgent Care Clinic for Cairns Northern Beaches, sporting infrastructure upgrades for Cairns Hockey and Endeavour Park Football, relocating the Cowboys NRLW to Cairns, upgrading Muddy’s playground on the Cairns Esplanade and ensuring grassroots groups like the Cairns Men’s Shed has a new carpark for safety of their members.
The party says it will also restore the 80/20 Bruce Highway funding model, which Labor previously scrapped as part of its decision to cut $488 million for the highway.
Mr Neal said his extensive travel through Cape York and his daily interactions with voters in Cairns had shown Labor’s cost-of-living crisis was having major impacts and the community deserved better.
“I’m proud of our commitment to provide funding to the Cairns Water Supply Project and its $600 million Agriculture and Mining Roads Program, which will make a difference in the Cape,” he said.
Mrs Swaine said the community had been crying out for help in the Kennedy electorate for decades, but no one has delivered.
“I am determined to help families and deliver real solutions,” Mrs Swaine said.
“Over the nearly three decades I have lived and worked in Kennedy, I have heard the same complaints, seen the same problems go unsolved and listened to the same excuses for why the region isn’t powering ahead. This is something I am determined to change and that is why I am running.”
