LNP Senator Ian Macdonald has accused the Greens of hypocrisy in their Kennedy preference allocation.
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“For years the Greens have rallied against gun violence and yet their HTV card preferences Katter ahead of the LNP’s Jonathan Pavetto in Kennedy,” Senator Macdonald said.
“How can the Greens carry on with their moral indignation when they blatantly favour candidates whose use of guns and killing people is directly opposite to the Greens rhetoric?”
Senator Macdonald accused the Greens and their “Get Up front” of being charlatans.
“The wider community can see that for themselves in the way the Greens have supported (Bob) Katter,” Senator Macdonald said.
“I hope voters will see through the hypocrisy and the dishonesty of the Greens campaign.”
The Greens candidate Valerie Weier has spent all her time campaigning on the coast and has not been seen in the North West.
On her Facebook page she said she had just spent a couple of days at Mission Beach chatting with local residents and small-business owners, and participating in a local candidates forum with the other Kennedy candidates for this election.
She said that as a pensioner and long-term renter she knew how difficult it could be to survive on a very tight budget.
“Commonwealth Rent Assistance assists more than one million people across Australia but has not kept up with spiralling rent prices,” Ms Weier said.
“The Greens proposal for this election to increase the rent assistance by 10% each financial year through to 2020 would equate to an increase of between $13 to $25 per week is long overdue, and will help people struggling to meet their basic housing needs.”
Labor candidate Norm Jacobsen was also in the eastern end of the electorate on the weekend campaigning in his home town of Innisfail.
Mr Jacobsen said he was pleased his state labor colleagues committed $43 million in the Queensland budget towards upgrading the Hann Highway.
“Two major sections of the highway will be upgraded to double lane,” Mr Jacobsen said.
Bob Katter was also on the coast, ignoring the kerfuffle over his “shooting gun” ad and campaigning in Ingham.
He also appeared on Sunday’s 60 Minutes program with son Robbie in the segment about CSG activist Kane Booth.