I’m Trevor Evans, your LNP candidate for Brisbane. As a long-term Windsor local, I live with my husband Roger and our border collie Bella. Elected in 2016 as Queensland’s first openly gay MP, I co-authored Australia’s marriage equality laws and later delivered the nation’s first federal recycling laws as an Assistant Minister. I’ve secured funding for critical Brisbane projects like the Metro, Kingsford Smith Drive upgrade, and Kangaroo Point Bridge. I’m committed to better management and ensuring Brisbane thrives.
Brisbane is Australia’s fastest growing capital city and we need to deliver more and better infrastructure to keep Brisbane moving.
We need to tackle inflation, which under Anthony Albanese and Labor has been consistently higher than any major advanced economy.
I come from a small business background, and I know our small and family businesses are the backbone of Brisbane’s economy. I want more Brisbane residents to succeed in small business or be able to grow their side hustle.
I want more Brisbane residents to own their own home. Our housing plan supports home buyers with their deposit by accessing a portion of their superannuation.
Our plan will invest more in stronger defence and community safety.Â
I know that crime is an important issue for residents in Brisbane, particularly break-ins, car thefts, and violence in public places.
Brisbane is Australia’s fastest growing capital city and we need to deliver more and better infrastructure to keep Brisbane moving.
My track record includes delivery of critical infrastructure like the Brisbane Metro, Kingsford Smith Drive upgrade and the new Kangaroo Point and Breakfast Creek bridges.
I oppose the Greens proposals to shut down lanes of major roads like Kelvin Grove Road, Coronation Drive, Kingsford Smith Drive and the Story Bridge.
Whether it is better roads, new bridges, more active transport connections or congestion-busting public transport projects like the Brisbane Metro, Â Brisbane needs a representative focussed on outcomes, not activism.
We need to tackle inflation, which under Anthony Albanese and Labor has been consistently higher than any major advanced economy.
As an economist, I know that inflation is always ultimately caused by excessive government spending and waste.
I am fighting to reduce inflationary pressures by implementing economic reforms, cutting wasteful spending, supporting cheaper, cleaner energy, tackling red tape and reducing taxes.
I come from a small business background, and I know our small and family businesses are the backbone of Brisbane’s economy. I want more Brisbane residents to succeed in small business or be able to grow their side hustle.
My family have been retailers, shopkeepers and restaurateurs for five generations and I am a proud advocate for this important sector. It’s where most of us get our first work skills and experience, and in Brisbane we’re especially lucky to have a vibrant small business sector including in the arts and creative industries.
I am fighting to simplify depreciation for millions of small businesses, as well as cutting red tape, boosting investment in productive assets, lowering business costs and prices.
I want more Brisbane residents to own their own home. Our housing plan supports home buyers with their deposit by accessing a portion of their superannuation.
We will also rebalance our migration system, which over the past two years has seen nearly four new people arriving for every new home built. We will put a two year ban on foreign investors and temporary residents buying Australian homes.
We will stop the lawless CFMEU holding the building industry to ransom. CFMEU corruption is a major reason it takes longer - and costs more - to build new homes in Brisbane, yet the Greens are supporting them.
Our plan will invest more in stronger defence and community safety.
I know that crime is an important issue for residents in Brisbane, particularly break-ins, car thefts, and violence in public places.
I oppose the Greens plans to defund the police, halve our spending on defence and legalise hard drugs including ice and heroin.
I am fighting for new tools and technology to enable the police and our community to better target our efforts against high-harm repeat offenders.