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
Shadow Assistant Minister for Defence
Shadow Assistant Minister for Defence Industry
Shadow Assistant Minister for Defence Personnel
Today is my “Alive Day”. It’s the day 15 years ago I was critically wounded, blown up by an IED in Afghanistan. That was a day that changed my life forever, if it wasn’t for Jenna and my mates I could of been another statistic. I remember the many who have succumb to their war within, you give me strength to fight, the strength to stand up and the strength to hold our values.
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Thanks for your service, and for continuing to serve. Love to Jenna and the family mate. Cheers
Good on you Phil.
As a Viet Vet I can relate to you and your service. Stand strong and never never give up. Very proud of all who served in Afghanistan and disgusted with the way many of you have been treated.
Nothing like serious life experiences to help you focus, but you have to be strong to recover and continue to serve Australia🇦🇺, what an inspiration to all💖. Sadly so many pollies have no real life skills, just party hacks, there for the money and prestige. You are certainly a role model for us all, well done💞🇦🇺🙏
We are so proud to have you represent us. Thank you for your service.
Negatives to positives mate. You're an absolute pillar for us all. It's a privilege and an honour.
This is why we love you Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community, you are an inspiration to all Australians 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 !!!
Keep going hard and strong Thank you for sharing and especially THANK YOU for your service 💯🇦🇺🍻 A lucky man to have a special woman beside you and your children make you a great person
Phillip Thompson thank you for your service and your continued support to the servicemen who suffer with PTSD.
And you continue to to do them all proud we are all grateful for your service
Thank you for your service to our nation.
Glad you're still here mate ❤️ we lost too many boys to the conflict Proud of you and your service. Your drive, your determination Keep on Marching ❤️
Phil you do a wonderful job for our country, whilst serving & also in parliament. You have great strength. As a wife of a Vietnam vet, we thank you also for your service. 🙏🙏
Thank you for your service Phil. You are an indeed a brave soldier and I am sure these memories of that time will be with you forever. You are a great role model for many people. Keep up the excellent work.
Thank you Phil for your service to our country and everything you do in our community every day.
Congratulations on your recovery and positive outlook and your help and support for others. Our Service Personnel are owed much by all citizens and we are grateful for your service and survival! You obviously have a great family!
Thank you for your service.
Thankyou Phil for your service to our wonderful country and your local community. Keep up the great work you are doing.
Thank you Phillip. Your courage is not unrecognised. I’m so glad you were able to come out the other side. God bless you 😊🙏❤️
We are very ucky to have you represent us. Keep up the great work
I for one am glad you pushed through and made it. And continue to push through the black dog every single day. Anyone who has seen war never stops seeing it was something my great Uncle a veteran of both world wars always told us. As mum to my RAAF son, I appreciated you all.
You made it Phillip! That experience has made you a wiser person and ready to help others.🌺🥰🌺Everyone loves you.
Thank you for your continuing service Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community you are a real live example of bravery & resilience for what you do for yourself , your family and the wider community. Keep fighting the good fight. Much love. ❤️
Keep up the fight of another kind Phillip !
To yourself and the team who were with you. Respect and your in our thoughts. Keep doing what your doing.
AMBASSADOR: I have been truly honoured to be a Bravery Trust ambassador since 2018! This organisation saves lives, in Townsville and around the country, I’ve seen this first hand. Bravery Trust is a national military charity which provides current and ex-serving members of the Australian Defence Force with financial aid, financial education and financial counselling.
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Financial security is a necessity of living a satisfying life. Excellent organisation.
Well done Phillip, why does this role as well as what you do for your broarder community not surprise me ❤ !!!
They are almost gone by the early vote polls. Keep up the good work Queensland.
WELCOMING NEW CITZENS: It was an honour to welcome our newest citizens today and hand them the Australian flag. Congratulations to everyone who took that important step in becoming an 🇦🇺 citizen!
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Must be getting close to election time!
Need to stop these for a while in my opinion (5yrs Min).. Robust checks & balances need to be implemented to ensure they serve existing Australian Citizens...
Yeah great the pension goes up and you welcome not1 dr or nurse but a bunch of professional dole bludgers well done
These folk must be as proud as I was 24 years ago. Australia accepted me and I embraced the privilege. We choose to be citizens and come here legally and respectfully and abide by all laws and customs - we are one - welcome all xxx
I remember when I became a Citizen of Australia back in the 90s.....one of the happiest days of my life!!
They look so happy! Phillip, you have shown them what Aussie mateship looks like.
Many congratulations to you all .
🇦🇺 congratulations to all and welcome to our great country!!
Congratulations and welcome. Great honour of being an Australian Citizen.
I arrived here from the UK in October 1964, and had to wait until 1969 to become an Australian Citizen, so proud to be an Australian, 5 years, and English was my first language. To gain the requirements and be checked as a fit to become an Aussie, 5 years is ample Welcome to those who have pledged their allegiance
Who better than you, Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community to welcome these new citizens to our great country, well done buddy ❤ !!!
Love this❤️
Onya Phil from Frank The Pom 🌴😎🌴
woww Kat Cataga Congratulations😃
So, so good Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community👏
Just wondering how long after approval ate people on Tvlle waiting for ceremony .. ??.. I understand you can't vote until you receive the certificate. ??
I am, you are, we are Australian 🇦🇺
Did they have to have the Welcome to Country ceremony preform I hope not this is Australia
How many are back to where they came from, now armed with an Australian passport to fly them out when shit hits the fan and crying out they want to be back 'home' Why do they come here in the first place if they don't want to be part of our society?
you are an inspiration to Australia Phil. keep up the good work you've got my vote in the next federal election.
I hope every single new citizen subscribes to our Western values and is willing to fully assimilate into Australian society. Those that want to follow medieval ideologies and who hate us have no place in this country. The thousands of Greeks, Italians, Poles, Germans, Vietnamese and more that have come to this country, embraced it's values and customs, and loved this country, have become some of most wonderful Aussies in our nation and we love them for it.
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Welcome
Onya Phill
Welcome new Citizens!
WAR WIDOWS: I was honoured to attend Townsville’s War Widows Luncheon, this day recognises the War Widow community and honours those widowed by war and defence service. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your special day and serve food for all in attendance.
I am sorry for the loss of your loved ones, this day recognises the sacrifice you and your family have made.
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Never have we had a politician display such empathy and compassion to our community, outstanding as always Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community, well done brother, you do us proud
He’s a great member. He could be Prime Minister one day. He just cares.
We all enjoyed having Phil for lunch yesterday. Thank you so much. 🇦🇺
Unfortunately I missed this one but thankyou Phil for all you do for our Community you are a legend
Congratulations Phil you never forget the passed and the future and of the woman who have sacrificed and supported our serving personnel Thank you
Keep up the excellent work. Something different a politician with real compassion and also served his country. Well done Phil
It was good to have you helping us serve the food. You did a great job with all that broccoli 🥦 and cauliflower in Cheese Sauce!
It takes a zealous person to work this hard. Keep up the great work.
Thank Phil for giving us your time
Great to see.👏
God bless you great man, you are the best 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 !!!
Well done Phil
Well done Phil, we remember the fallen, we need to remember those left after a partner, husband, wife, or close family member dies in service, we also need to remember and thank those who returned broken in body and mind, and had to be cared for by those at home.
Wonderful to see 👏👏👏
Well done Philip Thompson💙💙💙💙
Well done Phil.✔️
Look how they smiled Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community they loved you. 👏👏
Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community just a champion for our society well done phil
Not only Widows... some come back psychologically damaged and their partners then lose twice.
Welll done Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community THANK YOU:)
They would not be widows if the Australian government had not stupidity followed America into conflicts.
Well done Phil. Probably the best representative for the Townsville region at a Federal level we have had. Empathy in spades, now you have to get Spud on board as well.
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OUT OF TOUCH: The story of an Australian hero, a Victoria Cross recipient needing to sell his medals because of cost-of-living pressures has been plastered across the media for days, yet the Defence Minister has no idea. If Richard Marles’ incompetence wasn’t already clear, it was laid bare for all to see in Question Time.
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Marles should have been notified when any VCs get removed from the Australian War Memorial!
I’m sorry mate. You shouldn’t have to sell your medals!
Mate, labor and the greens wants no more coal, gold mines. They want to shut down everything for their bull shit green projects. I hope the rsl bought his medals and place it on display. Vote federa labor out.
What a piss poor response.
100 per cent mate , when I was policing I got Dan Keighran to come to an emergency expo in Bundaberg . He rocked up with no questions However to get a sport star to the event was rubbish and expensive I put a post up the other day saying that it’s a very sad country when vc holders are forced to sell their medals to live, but sports people are being payed by sponsors and supported by Government grants etc and live the high life Our priorities are wrong How about the Government pay for the medals and put them in the war memorial with a photo of Dan and his story Dan will still be able to wear his replicas on Anzac Day etc and still receive the respect he deserves We throw the word hero around to freely in this country. Dan is a hero!
bit sad when someone on a high paying wage such as the army is selling off things to make ends meet. what chance do us low income earners have.
Our country is rapidly turning to shit.
Marles is clearly incompent
Do you really think that this entire system of government really gives a rip about the people. You all spend so much time regulating and legislating our lives that you lose sight of the what the side effects are. seems all you want to do it stick us in a box and feed us when its convenient. Don't tell me its one side of the government or the other, Both parties have been doing this as a slow drip since federation. One party screws up trashes the room before the get voted out and then blame the other party for the blowouts. The incoming then raises costs and blames the outgoing for the raises. Its just stupid. Its all just a game to these parties. There's just no fixing it. Maybe we should all just say no. No to stupid controlling laws, no to "were doing this for your safety". Just.. No. I don't want you apology, I don't want your sales gimmick, I want you to leave us alone so we can get on with our lives freely. I want you to leave the UN and WHO. I want you to go back to gold backed currency and get rid of the central banks and let people build business using our own resources without your stupid government taxing the crap out of everything we do. I want you to wake up to the climate scams. I want you to start building projects that are NOT part of a political election campaign and start building the country again. If you cant do that, then its obvious that this government is either completely incompetent, completely corrupt or completely under control from an outside source. Just....No
Clueless ALP
Nothing to see here ! Jedi mind trick by Marles .. this is terrible for our vets to have to do this
Too busy looking after his mates and getting his fingernails done
How is this allowed to happen, DVA should support him
You’ve stayed extremely quiet about the ABC making up stories and doctoring audio and video to fit their agenda regarding Nov platoon…..why haven’t you stood up for them and stand by those men and Heston Russell? Is it Because Dan has a VC and you can use his story to take a shot at labor to fit your agenda? Here we thought we would have one of the lads in parliament that will support the treatment of all vets, not just the select few
Yep, how low can Labour go. Ya allow veterans to be Able to work as casuals In a Defence contract To help with cost of Labour Living, then the contractor puts them off to try and pick up lost profit due to running transport costs. So much for helping Veterans. The Rule should be that To hold a Defence ministers portfolio The person must have Served with FIRST HAND experience.
Marles is too busy feathering his own nest, like building the new at IFV in his own electorate.
The Hated Hand of the Market - why the greed and selfishness of each individual businessman leads to the prosperity of society as a whole. It is one of the standard examples of a spherical horse in a vacuum. Usually, the meme is interpreted as follows - capitalism is magically arranged: if everyone rakes in for themselves and shits on others, then through the mechanisms of competition and other special market magic, society will move forward. Therefore, from the point of view of a radical "marketeer" like Ayn Rand, everything market is good, and everything non-market is bad, because it only complicates the work of that same invisible hand. However, the problem is not that the invisible hand of the market does not exist, and not that a free market is impossible, as some mistakenly believe. But that this invisible hand is capable of leading the market to a completely different place than it would like to go.
Why do I even serve.....It is no wonder that we have a recruitment/retention travesty. Sick to my stomach hearing this devastating news.
I have 500 dollars right now for a go fund me keep them brother you earned them
Richard Miles is the most inept Defence Minister of my time! He is known to force people to only acknowledge him as the Deputy Prime Minister and not to call him the Defence Minister. His actions clearly make this story more believable!
Maybe an idea that the ADF bring Dan back in an Honarary status. Give him an appointment as an advocate within the ADF to support those still serving in some context. I am sure he would be a great ambassador. Also they can pay him a wage?
Have a go at these labour goofballs have no idea what’s going on with the veterans that is so disgusting. They should buy the metal back and given compensation.
How about you look at what they are feeding the troops quality quantity and how much . Provided by privatisation of suppliers. My taxes our taxes our ADF .
Let's hope that the medal he sold didn't go to another museum - who did he fight against .
I feel there is more to this story, times are tough but I'm not sure they're that tough that he needs to do this, obviously I know nothing of his personal/financial situation but it seems extreme to me.