LNP Candidate for Kennedy, Noeline Ikin and Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, have both welcomed the announcement of $3.5 million in funding for the Mission Beach Aquatic Facility. Mrs Ikin and Mr Cripps said they were delighted to learn that the Cassowary Coast Regional Council’s funding application had been successful under the National Stronger Regions Fund. […]
Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said while no tears would be shed in rural Queensland over the departure of Bill Byrne from the agriculture portfolio, he questioned whether the new Agriculture Minister, Leanne Donaldson, would be an improvement. Mr Cripps said Ms Donaldson was a first term MP, had not yet served 12 months in parliament […]
Member for Hinchinbrook, Andrew Cripps, has welcomed the announcement that Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre will receive funding through Arts Queensland’s Queensland Arts Showcase Program (QASP). The Queensland Arts Showcase Program aims to support the creative development and public presentation of new works and to cultivate new and emerging talent in the arts. “I would like […]
Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said the LNP played a crucial role in the successful passage of legislation through State Parliament yesterday, which will provide choice and transparency to cane growers in future marketing arrangements in the Queensland sugar industry. Mr Cripps said the Palaszczuk Labor Government yesterday suffered its first legislative defeat, after the […]
Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, says after a lengthy public debate over a period of 13 years, the LNP has helped deliver legislation to create a renewable fuels mandate, which he hopes will provide the certainty required for the establishment of a renewable fuels in Queensland. Mr Cripps said it was relief when the Liquid Fuel […]
LNP Candidate for Kennedy, Noeline Ikin and Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, have teamed up to lobby the Turnbull Government for funding for the Mission Beach Aquatic Facility. Mrs Ikin and Mr Cripps both believe that the delivery of the Mission Beach Aquatic Facility project would be a great step forward for the local community after […]
Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, says Queensland’s small business community has overwhelmingly endorsed the LNP’s proposal to increase parliamentary terms from 3 to 4 years. Mr Cripps said a survey of 750 small businesses conducted in October 2015 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland (CCIQ), resulted in clear support for the LNP’s proposal. “The […]
Shadow Minister for State Development and Mines Andrew Cripps has welcomed the announcement that Rio Tinto will go ahead with its $2.6 billion investment in a bauxite project, the Amrun mine, on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula. Mr Cripps said the bauxite mining extension between Weipa and Aurukun had been many years in […]
The current severe drought has deepened and widened in North Queensland, with several more council areas being declared by the Queensland Government, taking the total area of the state officially in drought to a record 86 per cent. Hinchinbrook MP, Andrew Cripps, said the formal declaration of the Townsville City Council area had officially brought […]
The LNP Opposition has labelled the Palaszczuk Labor Government’s latest taskforce, this time for the North West Minerals Province (NWMP), a “consolation prize” for the region. Shadow State Development and Mines Minister Andrew Cripps said the announcement was yet another holding pattern decision by a clueless government with no positive plans or policies. “This Taskforce […]
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