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Former Member for Burdekin Rosemary Menkens, Queensland Senator Susan McDonald, Burdekin Shire councillor Amanda Hall, and Northern Regional Chair of LNP Women Jean McCubben. Photo credit: Jacob Casha
A proposal to establish a Burdekin Liberal National Party (LNP) Women’s branch has garnered strong community interest following an information meeting held last weekend at the Home Hill Community Sports Club.
If formed, the branch would connect local women with the wider LNP Women’s network and provide a platform for discussing regional issues with party representatives and policymakers.
Queensland Senator Susan McDonald, who attended the meeting as a guest speaker, said the initiative would ensure local voices are better represented.
“This is a chance to speak with a voice that is practical and grounded in the Burdekin community,” she said.
The meeting, led by Burdekin Shire councillor Amanda Hall, also featured addresses from former Member for Burdekin Rosemary Menkens, former Burdekin Shire Youth Council mayor Nicole Cervoni, and Northern Regional Chair of LNP Women Jean McCubben, who is leading the push for the branch.
Ms McCubben, a Home Hill local, said the branch aims to increase the region's influence on state and federal levels.
“People in smaller country towns don’t realise the power they’ve got. Just because they’re small, doesn’t mean they have to be quiet,” she said.
“This branch is to tell locals that they belong, and they have just as much say as someone who lives in Brisbane.”
The Burdekin is part of a broader expansion of women’s branches across North Queensland that has already seen the formation of a branch in Mackay.
Ms McCubben said the branch would give local women a direct pathway to influence policy, with issues raised at branch level progressing to party conventions, where they are debated and voted on before being put to government representatives.
She said the branch will also create a pathway for women to step into leadership roles within the party.
“The women are the workers, they’re the engine, they’re the grunt work,” she said.
“You look at Rosemary [Menkens], and at people like Susan [McDonald]—she’s from Cloncurry, and now she’s in the senate in Canberra. We want more of them.”
Organisers will now submit an application to the state executive for formal approval.
Ms McCubben said that pending approval from the state executive, an inaugural AGM would be held to appoint office bearers and formally establish the branch.
She said the group would then engage with the local community to identify key issues and set its priorities moving forward.
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