The man who tried to foist the Goodna Bypass proposal on the people of Ipswich, the Federal Roads Minister Jim Lloyd has lost his own New South Wales seat of Robertson in the Federal election with a 7.5% swing against him.Jim Lloyd would not listen to the people of Ipswich. He would not take a bi-partisan approach to an important local issue in southeast Queensland.
All he could do was to listen to his political mate Cameron Thompson, the Member for Blair who dreamt up the hare-brained Goodna Bypass plan, after all of the public consultation on the Ipswich Motorway upgrade had been completed in 2002.Five years later, all the people have left are the hollow promises of the Liberal Party but - on the positive side - the political carcasses of Jim Lloyd and Cameron Thompson!
The voters of Blair and Oxley have spoken in unmistakable terms.
The new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the local Federal Member for Oxley, Bernie Ripoll will now formally unveil their commitment to 6-laneing the 6km stretch of the Ipswich Motorway from Goodna to Dinmore.And the people of Ipswich will be proud for the first time to have a first-class Motorway linking Ipswich with Brisbane.
