Former AMA Queensland President and former Liberal National Party MP Chris Davis - who quit the Queensland parliament in May 2014 and, subsequently the party, after being sacked from the ministry by Campbell Newman - delivers a blunt message during the state election campaign.
Published on Jan 16, 2015
TV Ad featuring Dr Chris Davis, former Assistant Health Minister in the Newman LNP Government, expressing a scathing assessment of the LNP on several grounds, and calls for voters to not trust the LNP in the 2015 Queensland election
BACKGROUND
No
Fibs 30
July 2014:
In March of
2014 he rose to prominence when he broke ranks with his government to defend
public hospital doctors when new contracts were enforced with very little
consultation. Initially seeking to be a go-between, he spoke at multiple
rallies at which no other LNP MP dared to attend. Even during the most
devastating of times when his daughter
Jessica died in a road accident, Davis continued to front up at
meetings to canvass doctor’s concerns and consult with one of the groups of
Queenslanders he believed he could best represent.
Meanwhile, in
the Queensland parliament, Premier Campbell
Newman famously labeled these resistors “rabble-rousers”…..
By May of
2014 he’d been sacked from his assistant health portfolio but was battling his
own party on a new front over the raising of the political
donation declaration limit from $1000 to $12,400. Throughout his
battles he’d always maintained a position of “judgement and conscience in the
public interest”.
And then he
was gone. A resignation on a slip of paper passed late one night to the Queensland
Speaker of the House initiated a by-election for his seat of
Stafford.....
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