A glamorous former Dawn reporter who former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk as soon as referred to as ‘impolite’ has sensationally give up TV to run as an LNP candidate.
Bianca Stone has gained the Liberal Nationwide Occasion’s preselection poll for the seat of Gaven on the Gold Coast and can run on this yr’s Queensland state election.
Stone already has a historical past of antagonism with Labor, which has been in energy in Queensland for all bar six years of the previous 35 since 1989.
On July 1, 2021, through the top of the Covid-19 pandemic, Stone tried to ask Ms Palaszczuk a query a couple of request to get extra Pfizer vaccines for the state.
Stone accused the Queensland authorities of partaking in a ‘public relations stunt’, which noticed a fired-up Ms Palaszczuk retort: ‘I am not going to reply folks being impolite, so anybody else have a query? You might be being very impolite.’
Glamorous former Dawn reporter Bianca Stone (pictured), who former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk as soon as referred to as ‘impolite’, has sensationally give up TV to run as an LNP candidate
After the announcement was made on Saturday, Queensland’s Deputy Premier Cameron Dick stated Labor is not too bothered about Stone’s preselection.
‘We do not care who the LNP choose as a result of lazy LNP MPs on the Gold Coast with fats margins have by no means delivered something for that group,’ Mr Dick stated.
Stone will probably be up in opposition to incumbent Housing Minister Meaghan Scanlon on the October 26 election.
Mr Dick stated Ms Scanlon had labored exhausting for her constituents and group since changing into the youngest girl elected in Queensland on the age of 24 in 2017.
‘Our authorities has been the transformative authorities for the Gold Coast. All the most important investments on the Gold Coast, heavy rail, mild rail, hospitals, stadiums, all of that has been delivered by Labor governments,’ he stated.
‘Somebody like Meaghan Scanlon has been completely central to the supply of these initiatives, price of dwelling reduction, extra houses.
‘All of these have been delivered by somebody like Meaghan Scanlon, and he or she’s completely the only option for Gaven and the Gold Coast.’
In asserting her plans, Stone stated it was apparent folks felt each bodily and economically weak underneath a Labor authorities.
She additionally flagged gang violence as certainly one of her prime considerations.
‘Neighborhood security needs to be the highest precedence of any authorities and we should not really feel something apart from fully safe in our houses,’ she stated.
In April, Stone resigned from her job on Dawn after six years on morning TV. She had labored for Channel Seven for 18 years.
Bianca Stone (pictured) has gained the Liberal Nationwide Occasion’s preselection poll for the seat of Gaven on the Gold Coast and can run on this yr’s Queensland state election
Stone will probably be up in opposition to incumbent Housing Minister Meaghan Scanlon (pictured) on the October 26 election
‘This has been a troublesome choice,’ she posted to Instagram on the time.
‘Dawn is sort of a household (albeit a bit dysfunctional at instances) and I’ve skilled some unbelievable profession highlights over the previous six years.
‘I’ve travelled throughout the nation and all over the world, masking terror assaults, royal visits, the dying of the Queen, two Commonwealth Video games, floods, fires, cyclones and too many tragedies.’
Stone stated that whereas Dawn had been her ‘dream job’ she had determined to step down to contemplate the subsequent step in her profession.
‘It got here as a shock (to Channel Seven). However I’ve been toying with the thought for a while,’ she instructed the Courier Mail in February, 2023.
‘Dawn is a dream job … breakfast TV is addictive and compelling nevertheless it additionally comes with an alarm each single day and that turns into exhausting.
‘To start with if I am sincere the fun of Dawn outweighed the alarm. However the older I get and my little woman is older, that is switched for me.’
The mother-of-three is married to Gold Coast police detective Mark Mooney.
