Jetstar and Cairns Airport is ongoing. Negotiations are continuing between the two of them.
The opposition really has a hide asking any questions whatsoever about tourism. As recently as
this morning I checked out the LNP website. There is not one word of policy on the LNP website. To try
to get a bit of a handle on what those opposite thought about tourism, I checked out the speech their
leader made to the state conference. He gave a 40-page speech to the state conference. I read it.
Anyone in here who suffers from insomnia should read this speech because I can guarantee that it is
much more effective and cheaper than any medication they will get. It is much more effective.
I read the speech that he gave to the state conference. I was looking for one word in that 40-page
speech. I was looking for the word ‘tourism’. Do you know how many times I found it? Once, and it was
mixed up with primary industries and a few other things. That was the extent of the policy that those
opposite have.
If you go to the website you find nothing on this—not one word. All we have had from the shadow
minister is all shadow and no substance. He has put out 20 media releases, all of which are negative.
There is not a positive suggestion whatsoever in them. The only constructive thing he thinks he did for
tourism was whilst he was visiting the V8s in Townsville and partaking of the hospitality in Townsville—
