2024 Queensland State Election candidates Murrumba

Name: David Zaloudek

Party: Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party

Suburb: Murrumba

Top 3 issues to address:

1. Establish an accessible, safe, regulated, medicinal and recreational cannabis market in Australia - where people can choose to grow their own cannabis, access cannabis from a cannabis social club or purchase cannabis from a regulated cannabis dispensary.
2. Introduce logical, sensible cannabis driving laws - where penalties are imposed for evidence of drug driving impairment rather than identification of drug presence within a person’s system. Positive identification of drug presence can remain in a person’s system days, weeks, even months after consumption.
3. Promote and support the growth of a regulated cannabis industry in Australia - to create new jobs, foster economic growth, generate additional tax revenue. Simultaneously, reduce the estimated $5 billion flowing annually to the unregulated, criminal cannabis economy that funds organised and violent crime.

Name: Steven Miles

Party: Queensland Labor Party

Suburb: Mango Hill/ Murrumba

1. I know that cost of living, housing and better healthcare, closer to home matter to you and I hope that you’ve seen that when I say I’m going to do something – I do it. Like taking $1000 off every household’s power bill, 50c fares, 20% off rego and $200 FairPlay vouchers for families. 
2. Our housing plan is building more homes quickly, by unlocking land and training more tradies for free.
3. Moreton Bay residents already know how committed I am to their healthcare; including delivering our new Satellite Hospital in Kallangur and huge expansions to the Redcliffe and Caboolture Hospitals. I’m committed to continuing this critical work for our community.

Name: Deklan Green

Party: Queensland Greens

Suburb: Kallangar (Quandamooka Noonuccal man).

Top 3 issues to address:

1. Public education: Queensland’s state schools are underfunded by $1.7 billion every year, which means overcrowded classrooms, overworked teachers and families paying higher school fees. The Greens will fully fund state schools, abolish resource fees and out-of-pocket costs, introduce a universal meals program and give every child a free season of community sport.
2. Cost of living: The cost of food, housing, electricity and essentials are out of control because Labor and the LNP have let big corporations rip us off. The Greens have a plan to reverse privatisation to tackle the cost-of-living crisis. We will bring energy retail back into public ownership and establish a public bank, developer and builder to deliver cheaper mortgages and 100,000 new publicly owned homes. 
3. Billionaires to pay their fair share of tax to pay for cost-of-living measures and education.

Name: Gary Fulton

Party: Liberal National Party (LNP)

Suburb: Murrumba

Top 3 issues to address:

1. I am increasingly hearing stories of people forced to wait in the back of ambulances as they sit ramped outside crowded emergency rooms, families struggling to pay the never-ending increasing bills or who don’t feel safe in their own homes.
2. After witnessing decades of inadequate delivery under the Palaszczuk/Miles Labor Government, it’s clear Steven Miles and Labor do not have the right priorities for Murrumba.
3. If elected, my plan includes measures to enhance home ownership and rental affordability, improve access to health services, and alleviate the cost-of-living crisis exacerbated by the current government.

Name: Caleb Wells

Party: Independent, founder of National Worker & Families Solidarity

Suburb: Kallangur

1. Australia needs change. We all know it; however, nobody is doing anything. The cost-of-living increases are breaking Queenslanders. This year inflation + Gov Debt will cost every family at $7,785.45 extra. Yet the Liberal/Labor plan is “Spend MORE, Spend OFTEN, Spend NOW.” Steven Miles loudly gloats about spending $200 million on 50cent rail. All $200 million of that is debt money. All $200 million of that will increase inflation and make the cost of living worse.
2. Youth crime continues to spiral out of control. It is Lib/Labour policies that empowered thug youth and effectively criminalised discipline.
3. It’s an ugly truth, but “democracy” has failed. We are no longer free to speak our own mind. Truth now takes back seat to “diversity” and “political correctness”.

Name: Scott Donovan

Party: Independent

Suburb: Kallangur

Top 3 issues to address:

1. Crime: First let’s go back to a Police Force and give them the power to crack down on crime without being weighed down by political correctness. Next, sentencing should reflect public expectation eg. murder and child rape - a life sentence means dying in jail. Jails should not be holiday camps. For juveniles, make it a work regime and teach trade skills.
2. Health: It should be properly funded and a priority before other projects are considered. Ambulance ramping and lack of hospital beds need addressing, many health workers have left, leaving staff shortages because of vaccine mandates.
3. Education: All political indoctrination should be scrapped and get back to more academic programs as the standard has slipped alarmingly. There are teaching staff leaving in large numbers because of abuse and assaults yet governments seem to turn a blind eye.

Name: Sarah Kropman

Party: Independent (100%)

Suburb: Mango Hill (Murrumba Electorate)

Top 3 issues to address:

1. Local Issues Matter – an MP who is active, available, and dedicated to working for the local community.
2. Putting Victims First – criminals shouldn’t receive all the services.
3. Better Community Safety & Police Resourcing – residents deserve to feel safe in their own homes!