Phillip Thompson OAM MP
Federal Member for Herbert
Serving Our Community
Together with our community, we’ve been working to secure our economic recovery, support jobs and help locals get ahead.
Through our local advocacy, we’ve been able to deliver on our local plan in Herbert, including:
✅ Establishing the reinsurance pool to bring down insurance premiums
✅ Delivering the Port channel widening to allow bigger ships into our port for imports and exports
✅ Funding a new youth precinct to get young people off our streets
✅ Starting a much-needed $80-million refurbishment for Reef HQ
✅ A Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, and
✅ Delivering a new ward at the Townsville University Hospital.
Each and every one of these initiatives is aimed at improving the quality of life for local people and ensuring we’re supporting a better future for our region. Please check out some of our local projects here.
As your Federal Member I am always here to help. If there’s ever anything I can do, please don’t hesitate to get in touch on the phone, on Facebook or by email.
While you’re here, please take a minute to have your say, and let me know what’s important to you and your family.
Phillip Thompson OAM MP
We’ve secured significant investment in Townsville and surrounds, creating jobs and helping our economic recovery.
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Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community
Federal Member for Herbert
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Today’s ANZAC Day March saw schools, defence and veterans groups participate in the historic event. As the largest garrison city in the nation, ANZAC Day is one of our most sacred days.
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You do a cracking job mate it was great seeing you both yesterday supporting Kapyong Day and today out and about supporting all the current and ex serving troops. Keep up the good work mate!
You are such a blessing to our community. Today has been a day full of deserved honour and glory for our troops especially those who fought for our country. We remember them with compassion and gratitude and always will.
You are an amazing representative for this region, we thank you for your service fighting for our country, we think of the brothers and sisters that have fought with you, before and after you. We live in a country and owe the defence forces everything, when politicians go to Canberra they need to remember this and never change who you are as we look forward to calling you Minister in the future.
Your a bloody legend Phil, wish more politicians had your courage and dedication. Hope you had a great Anzac day mate.
Great speech today at Thuringowa this morning Phil. Spot on.
Great ceremonies all throughout Australia well done.
Great pics Phil. Thankyou for your service and what you do for our community 😍
So wonderful Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community 👏👏
So amazing thanks for the love towards your people.
What inspirational images. Lest We Forget 🏵️
Lest we Forget
Lovely mate.
Lest we Forget.
On ANZAC Day I remember my mates and the many Australians who have paid the ultimate sacrifice on operations in service to this nation, as well as those who have succumbed to their war within back here in Australia. LEST WE FORGET
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Was a great Dawn Service glad to see so many people there
We honour you and all the brave soldiers who fought and died for our beloved country. True blue Aussies.
Thank you for your service.
Beautiful sight! Great crowd! LEST WE FORGET! 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Following coverage, was so wonderful to see so many young involved. And Townville had perfect weather. We had a wonderful ceremony at Cleveland Palms.
Thank you for your service
Beautifully said 🙏
LEST WE FORGET
Lest.we.forget.Thankyou.
AsalwaysPillip
Lest we forget
I too lit candles this morning 🌄
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LEST WE FORGET. THANKYOU.....
Thank you for your service. LEST WE FORGET.
Lest We Forget.🙏 Thank you for your service. 🇦🇺
Thank you for your service Lest we forget
Thank you for your service. Lest we forget.
Thank you for your service. Lest we forget ❤️
Phillip Thompson Lest We Forget
Lest we forget and thank you for your service
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Thankyou Fellow soldier. Respect
Lest. We. Forget.
SWEET ADVANCEMENTS: Sugarcane is a 24/7, 365 days a week lifestyle that requires a lot of dedication and sacrifice. The 45th Annual Sugarcane conference held here in Townsville gave me the opportunity to thank those in the industry and to see the advancements being made.
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Great job Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community. Sugarcane, the hold of the north for so many years.
With the big push towards a clean and green future, why doesn't every sugar mill have a co - gen attached to it ? And why does ethanol never get spoken about ! Ahhh that's right not enough votes up here !!
Thank you for the deeds God bless you abundantly.
Libs and labor/greens will shut down this industry also
Did you hear the joke about the two brothers? One was a whinger the othe a cane farmer!
NATIONAL DISGRACE: Only Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could be so un-Australian as to cut $2 BILLION from the Army combat equipment budget in the lead up to ANZAC Day! Soldiers have been contacting me in droves to voice their disgust. I call on the PM to reverse this decision as a priority.
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More disgraceful actions by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese just days out from ANZAC Day.
For those asking, that is a self-propelled howitzer in the background of the picture. A whole regiment of self-propelled howitzers were cut by Albanese. Not that long ago, self-propelled howitzers were described a ‘game changer on the battlefield.’ Losing capability, losing jobs and exposing our brave men and women is what we are seeing under this Prime Minister.
ALBO has not done one thing for the Australian people except run Australia into the ground..
Yet, he had heaps of money to push the Referendum...shows where his priorities are.
Why don't private enterprise pay for the equipment witg their tax like a true libertarian society. Then the companies can name the tanks. Maybe the 'coles crusher' or 'woolworths wind'. People would support this.
Is this just a puppet move to keep the global political theatre happy with the image of not spending that money now, but in 1 years time where were distracted with something else like the special conditions in the WEF and UN deal that affect Australia they restart the re-funding in the background so not to look bad now in the theatre of political agreements. ie it's a bad card to pull now for the game but a better card is waiting ?
Worse Prime Minister this country has ever had he is more worried about the intighten idoits want that hard working Aussies struggling to live
Well I didn’t vote him in !!!! This is what happens when Labor is in power
This government needs to go.....
Just leaving the door open to China !
I served for nearly 34 years and every time Labour was in power the ADF suffered 😡
He should cut his spending ,flying around in jets for one
He needs the extra savings to finance Chris Bowens hidden, 7 billion in costs to pander to the green agenda. Oh, by the way, they're intending not to put that in the budget.
First up all politicians should have their wages cut and bought back down to an acceptable value. It’ll be too late when the chinese decide they want Australia.
History will tell you that Labor always cut the defence budget and they're back at it again.
He's surely gone next election .. this is just another action to confirm it!
I've been involved with defence for a long time & Labor governments always use defence for cost cutting. A leopard doesn't change it's spots.
That sound right Can’t afford to look after Aust to busy looking after other countries in any way to make him look good
When ever Labour gets into power they decimate the military which is contrary to what they say they are doing.
The worst PM ever it seems
Australia Defence Force moral is so low now that there'll soon be no one left to use it anyway. The Government has said that it needs to increase enlistment in the ADF by 20 thousand. They will be bloody lucky if they don't lose 20K.
That is why we must all stand up and be proud to say these wonderful defence force men and women gave their lives to keep Australia free from those determined to make us slaves to world government and outside control. Only Australian citizens have the right to control our Country. Any politician signing our rights away to WEF, WHO and any other outside interest need to be ashamed of themselves. We need to get the message across to those who think this is right that we will not accept it.
Well he has to pay for all the overseas trips he and his cabinet take 😡
Considering we are progressing further and further into an unstable environment in terms of conflict, we should not be cutting defence expenditure.
What else would you expect. When I was in the army they did the same thing. I couldn't even get the right boot size for me. I had to buy my own medical equipment.
HEALTH MATTERS: It was great to show Senator Anne Ruston the Shadow Minister for Health around the 33 bed ward I secured funding for at the Townsville Hospital and Health Service. Thank to the many nurses, doctors, pharmacists and administrators that are looking after patients at the Acute Admission Unit.
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I read some people commenting on how bad the TUH is. I don’t understand their logic. This is a public institution that provides . arguably the most comprehensive healthcare in the world . As a doctor that works in the public and the private sector- I can inform you that you would not want to have a life threatening disease or trauma anywhere else in the world . Australia has the best public health system. Now when it comes to the TUH - we are not always perfect - but I can tell you nobody is going out of their way to make a patients life a misery - sometimes the delivery may not live up to everyone’s expectation but it’s not the hospital - it’s the failing of individuals who work there and they may have a bad day or there is an expectation - delivery mismatch .
Just an absolute disgrace Townsville Hospital. Think I'd rather die than be taken there...
Elections must be due soon
Thanks for your efforts Phillip. I currently have my 89 year old Mother in the Mater and my 85 year old Mother in-law at the TGH after a health emergency this week. We went to TGH emergency on Thursday night around 10:30pm. All spots at the ambulance drop off were full. 4 ambulances were doubled parked and 2 parked in the street. 7 people were on stretchers in the entry corridor and when we got into ED, every bed was full, not forgetting the 30+ people in the waiting room. Even in this situation, all the staff went about getting the job done. I just wanted to give a shout out to the doctors, nurses and staff at both facilities. The care and support is increadable. THANK YOU.
Thank you Philip for looking after the welfare of our community!
Lol do you think Tony Mooney would vote for you do you Phillip 😂🫵 talk about hunt with the foxes and run with the hounds .
Well done T.U.H. can't complain about the service with my husband n thanks Phil ☺️
That's great that more beds have been made in that area, But 7 hours we sat in Emergency waiting to be admitted because as we were told that the other part of the ED is being used as a ward ??? Ambulance medics were pushing people in to the ED, from out of the ambulances, not enough beds in the ED Phil because of not enough beds and probably staff as I have read in other messages come on these poor doctors, nurses, wards people, x ray, ct scaners, cleaners are so over worked and under staffed 7 hours and we were told if you leave you will be sitting here again tomorrow for 7 hours again and there was sick people leaving because they couldn't wait any longer & were verbally abusive towards the staff because of these problems so no the hospital still needs more help because these fools running the state are so INCOMPETENT to do anything to help this State at all.
Funny 33 , aahhhh ye love dem numbers , we are not fooled , why not 35 ? 40 100. But nope ,Freemasons love 33
Yes Philip TUH is one of the best ,nurses doctors and all staff r the best I'm in private health but would go nowhere else.
You're a good man for the community
Great work Phil. 👏
What a blessing you are to put community
Thank you for all you do for the community
All the people complaining about the hospital, don't go there, simple. Having a Mum that works there, they have to deal with the most putrid of humans, they deserve their pay.
Thank you Phillip for everything that you do.
Thank you Phillip. You help in more ways than you think.
Well done Phil. 👍👍
What about people to work in in Phil? My Mum is a nurse at Townsville Hospital, she's 82 and they're always asking her to work extra shifts, or Doubles (16 hours straight), due to being so under staffed. Good job on the funding though mate 👍
Townsville hospital DOES NOT LOOK AFTER THEIR PATIENTS!!! Nothing but a cruel self centred hospital. No compassion, no duty of care but what they do have is a huge ball of crap!!!
I really like this
Better not be a watch in that box Phillip Thompson, AUSPOST are still feeling that pinch 😉
Thanks Phil
Excellent. Thankyou.
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