The Liberal member for Blair Cameron Thompson has been caught out again, this time denying claims that the Federal Government is planning a nuclear waste dump for the Ipswich suburb of Redbank, 28km west of Brisbane.
The Labor Member for Oxley Bernie Ripoll has released terrifying details of a 40-year old plan stored in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library showing plans for the facility. This master stroke by Bernie Ripoll, so close to the Federal election, has flushed out the "single issue" Cameron Thompson, who thinks the whole of the next election in Blair will revolve around the Goodna Bypass.Ipswich has a population of 150,000 and despite the autocue denial by Cameron Thompson of a nuclear waste facility for Ipswich, the average punter knows that where there's smoke there's fire!
The Queensland National Party Government was defeated in 1989 over a similar plan to establish a radioactive waste dump at Smith Street Redbank. The incoming Goss Labor government immediately scrapped the proposal after hundreds of people were arrested in the fight to save the suburb.
The Federal Liberal Government has elevated hypocrisy to new heights by delaying a decision on a nuclear industry in Australia until after the election - with Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba earmarked as possible nuclear reactor sites.
Cameron Thompson was caught out over the issue when he denied the possibility of a nuclear dump in Ipswich but was forced to admit that he had not even seen the map held in the Parliamentary Library. What a dill!
Is this one of Cameron's "core promises" or "non-core promises". Perhaps, he could ask the Prime Minister who is the master purveyor of such base, gutter politics.
Cameron Thompson is an ex-ABC radio journalist whose slippery political denials are legendary around Ipswich. When caught out over the latest disclosure, he was quoted as saying there was "no prospect whatsoever" of the waste facility being built in Ipswich.
And, yes - there was a pig flying across the skies of Ipswich when Cameron Thompson made that utterly delusional promise, which had not received Prime Ministerial approval to be made.
According to an opinion poll released today, the people of Blair will be represented by the ALP's Shayne Neumann before the end of the year. And Cameron Thompson is now panicking because Shayne Neumann has performed the renowned Indian political trick and "crept up" on him over the past 3 years!
According to an opinion poll released today, the people of Blair will be represented by the ALP's Shayne Neumann before the end of the year. And Cameron Thompson is now panicking because Shayne Neumann has performed the renowned Indian political trick and "crept up" on him over the past 3 years!Given that the election of a Labor Government seems to be the only way to stop this Liberal Party nuclear lunacy, Cameron Thompson seems to have given up all hope of the Liberal Party winning the upcoming election and is probably slowly counting down the days to when he is kindly referred to as the "former Member for Blair".
