ANDREW MURDOCH:
Angie Bell is the Federal Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education. She’s a member of the Liberal National Party of Queensland and the Member for Moncrieff, but for the past few days she has been touring the Mallee, investigating the child care services available in the region. Shadow Minister, good morning.
After promising Australian families cheaper child care, Labor’s policy failure has instead delivered higher prices, with out of pocket costs increasing by 12.1 per cent in the last 12 months.
GREG JENNETT:
Time to bring in our political panel now. From Melbourne Assistant Minister Kate Thwaites is with us once again. Good to see you, Kate. And from the Gold Coast Coalition frontbencher, Angie Bell, welcome to you to Angie, both familiar to the program, but a slightly new combo. I think we’re trying here today.
The Coalition will strongly oppose Labor’s new Misinformation Bill, which Federal Member for Moncrieff, Angie Bell, described as an attack on free speech. When the Government released its first Misinformation Bill last year, more than 20,000 people put in submissions and comments opposing it, and so it was withdrawn in disgrace.
GREG JENNETT:
Social media bans on teenagers is hard to walk passed as a dominant discussion point of the day. So let’s get into that now, joining us right here in the studio on our political panel we have government frontbencher and Member for Edern Monaro, Kristy McBain. Welcome back Kristy. And Liberal frontbencher and Member for Moncrieff, Angie Bell, welcome to you too Angie.
29 August 2024
Subjects: Visit to Little Scholars School of Early Learning on the Gold Coast; child care; Labor’s homegrown inflation and cost of living crisis; Labor’s energy policy shambles; nuclear energy; meeting with Brett and Belinda Beasley; the work of the Jack Beasley Foundation; Labor’s Big Australia immigration Policy; the CFMEU and Labor’s rackets, rorts, and rip-offs in the construction sector; the Greens’ radical agenda and what minority government would look like under an Albanese-Bandt-Labor-Greens Government; Tanya Plibersek’s gold mine decision.
Labor has wasted four months by failing to act on key Senate inquiry recommendations into Red imported fire ants in Australia – ‘don’t let this come back to bite us’. By not acting, the Albanese Government has allowed the eradication zone to explode in size, further north into Burpengary East, west into Mount Sylvia, south into Tallebudgera Valley, as well as outlier areas, as far as Oakey near Toowoomba and Currimundi near Caloundra Airport.
The Gold Coast’s sister city relationships and international partnerships are a source of economic growth and provide cultural, educational, and professional opportunities, and boost our international profile. These relationships assist to open our door to the world and create real outcomes for Gold Coast residents and businesses. We are a community that has been a safe and respectful place for all who come here, from all faiths and backgrounds.
GREG JENNETT:
Okay, let’s bring in our political panel now standing by to join us Labor frontbencher, Kristy McBain, welcome Kristy and LNP frontbencher Angie Bell is with us. Same to you, Angie, welcome back.
The Albanese Government have once again shown Australian families they care more about politics then tackling rising cost of living pressures and inflation. Today’s announcement on child care wages is further proof that Labor is all about spin, not substance. It is abundantly clear that the Albanese Labor Government does not have a meaningful plan to restore the Australian way of life.