2024 Queensland State Election candidates Pumicestone

Published 5:00pm 14 October 2024

Want to know who is running in the 2024 State Election, with early polling now open and polling day coming up on October 26? Here’s a list of candidates for the seat of Pumicestone.

Early voting commenced on October 14, from 8am-6pm, at about 200 early voting centres across Queensland. Here’s a list of early polling booths in Moreton Bay.

Requests for postal votes can be submitted at ecq.qld.gov.au

Polling day is on October 26.

Meet the Pumicestone candidates

We invited candidates to provide a profile which included their top three priorities. Here are their responses, in ballot paper order.

Name: Samuel Beaston

Party: One Nation

Suburb: Not provided

Top 3 issues to address: Not provided

Name: Ali King

Party: Labor

Suburb: Pumicestone

Top 3 issues to address:

Health Services - My experience has delivered what matters to our community: Bribie and Caboolture Satellite Hospitals, Caboolture Hospital expansion, Beachmere Road upgrades, Beachmere Police Outreach, Bribie Island Road upgrades and social homes.
Infrastructure - Only I will deliver the fully funded second Bribie Bridge, dual lane more of Bribie Island Road, $1M to tackle hooning and On Demand Buses for Bribie and surrounds.
Cost of Living - Labor is delivering cost of living relief - funded by taxing multinational mining profits. We’ve delivered $1000 off power bills, made 50 cent public transport fares permanent, 20 per cent off rego, free kindy, free TAFE, $200 kids sport vouchers and rent assistance. Only Labor has a plan to limit fuel price increases to 5 cents a day and provide FREE school lunches for all State Primary School students.

Name: Laine Harth

Party: Family First

Suburb: Not provided

Top 3 issues to address: Not provided

Name: Richard Ogden

Party: Greens

Suburb: Bongaree

Top 3 issues to address:

1. I've dedicated my life to protecting our beautiful and vulnerable ecosystems here on Bribie Island. This is a very special part of the world. From stopping native bushland being destroyed to better regulating beach driving, I’ll make sure natural spaces are protected.

2. Leaving it up to private developers to fix the housing crisis means more bushland being cleared and koala habitat lost — while the people moving to these new suburbs face longer commutes, a worse quality of life and unaffordable homes. The only way we can make homes more affordable and sustainable is building more of them near public transport and jobs.

3. The climate crisis is out of control with more floods, bushfires and heatwaves. The Greens have a plan to tackle the climate crisis by stopping new coal and gas mines and building 100 per cent publicly owned renewable energy.

Name: Ariana Doolan

Party: LNP

Suburb: Not provided

Top 3 issues to address: Not provided

Name: Rosie Doolan

Party: Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party

Suburb: Not provided

Top 3 issues to address:

Access to, and affordability of, cannabis medicines is number one. Patients should be allowed to home grow if they can’t afford the corporate product. Our three-stage implementation plan allows for that in stage one.
I want to see reforms to unfair discriminatory driving laws for medically prescribed patient that test for impairment rather than presence. Patients are suffering a lower quality of life because they are afraid to drive. Our policy for legalisation outlines 3 clear stages moving from home grow to eventual commercialisation of the sale of cannabis for adult social, under license.
Tourism, healthcare and environmental protection, are just some of the reasons we should seriously consider boosting the cannabis and hemp industries and encouraging investment in them.