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:
✅ Ensuring an expansion of flood recovery payments to include all Townsville suburbs
✅ Establishing the reinsurance pool to bring down insurance premiums
✅ Delivering a new ward at the Townsville University Hospital
✅ Funding a new youth precinct to get young people off our streets, and
✅ A Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
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 the NDIS
On 12 June 1996, two Australian Army Black Hawk helicopters collided in the Townsville Field Training Area during training for counter-terrorism operations. There were eighteen fatalities as a result of the accident. My thoughts are with the survivors and the Heroes who lost their lives training to keep us safe.
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In the early hours after that Event I was called with into my Unit wih some of my team in Lavarack Barracks to supervise the retrieval and issue of Body Bags stored in the Warehouse where I was the Warehouse Supervisor. A very distressing situation when we discovered why. RIP BRAVE SOLDIERS Footnote Cpl Darrin Smith, SASR who perished was a personal accuantice of mine. Thank you for your Service.
Lest We Forget That day will never fade Townsville was so silent that day it was so eerie Condolences to the family and all defence personnel involved 🥲🕊️🙏🌺🇦🇺🥃🍻
It’s very sad for all the people involved. The families who lost their loved one but I can also sympathise with all those families who didn’t know if their loved ones were involved. The waiting to hear and praying that it wasn’t your son or daughter, husband or wife involved. Thank god for all those wonderful people who are prepared to sacrifice everything to protect their country 🙏
I have written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to congratulate him and ask for a collegiate relationship that puts the people of Townsville front and centre. I've requested he honour commitments from both sides that will ensure our region continues to be a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.
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Good luck with that, ordinary Australians aren't on his radar
Didn't know Grunts could write 🤣
Don't hold your breath
IT'S OFFICIAL: Extremely honoured and humbled to be officially declared as the Member for Herbert for a third term. Thank you so much to the community for your support, the 7 other candidates, and the AEC staff who did an incredible job running a smooth election. How good is democracy!
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Didn’t vote for him for the party he represents Voted for the man he his 🙏
Will this effect you? So claiming a pension is an "embarrassing admission of poverty"? How much more self entitled can you political animals get. Do they care about the "real" people? People that have done an honest 45 years work, payed all their taxes and get the big "up yours" when they arrive in their senior years. Yet your perks continue loooooong after you leave office.... So the reality is this: The Politicians in power are changing the Pension Assets Test for everyone in Australia except themselves. This will negatively affect everyone who thought they had enough to retire on. It will also affect disability pensions, widow pensions and more. They are thinking of scrapping the Seniors Card. The Pension Assets Test was implemented on 1 January 2017. So here's fair warning to all politicians of any persuasion, this group of aged voters may be about to make the greatest impact on any Federal election in history, ignoring them may be the start of a changed political environment in this country. Change the Entitlements I absolutely agree, if a pension isn't an entitlement, neither is theirs. They keep telling us that paying us an aged pension isn't sustainable. Paying politicians all the perks they get is even less sustainable! The politicians themselves, in Canberra, brought it up, that the Age of Entitlements is over: The author is asking if you agree to this to copy and post this note on their facebook page.This is one idea that really should be passed around because the rot has to stop somewhere. Proposals to make politicians shoulder their share of the weight now that the Age of Entitlement is over: 1. Scrap political pensions. Politicians can purchase their own retirement plan, just as most other working Australians are expected to do. 2. Retired politicians (past, present & future) participate in Centrelink. A Politician collects a substantial salary while in office but should receive no salary when they're out of office. Terminated politicians under 70 can go get a job or apply for Centrelink unemployment benefits like ordinary Australians. Terminated politicians under 70 can negotiate with Centrelink like the rest of the Australian people. 3. Funds already allocated to the Politicians' retirement fund be returned immediately to Consolidated Revenue. This money is to be used to pay down debt they created which they expect us and our grandchildren to repay for them. 4. Politicians will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Politicians pay will rise by the lower of, either the CPI or 3%. 5. Politicians lose their privileged health care system and participate in the same health care system as ordinary Australian people. I.E. Politicians either pay for private cover from their own funds or accept ordinary Medicare. 6. Politicians must equally abide by all laws they impose on the Australian people. 7. All contracts with past and present Politicians men/women are void as of 30 June The Australian people did not agree to provide perks to Politicians, that burden was thrust upon them. Politicians devised all these contracts to benefit themselves. Serving in Parliament is an honour not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so our politicians should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people, then it will only take three or so days for most Australians to receive the message. Don't you think it's time? THIS IS HOW YOU FIX Parliament and help bring fairness back into this country! Please do not share this , Copy paste and post.
Over the past few days, a lot of people have asked me how I feel about being appointed the Shadow Assistant Minister for the NDIS. The truth is, I asked for the position & I am honoured & humbled to have been trusted with it.
As a father to a young daughter with Autism, I know how hard and challenging the NDIS can be. With the right supports, I was able to hear Emery say “I love you dad” for the first time earlier this year. It is something I will never forget and gives me the drive I have today.
I want to give a voice to the voiceless, especially those vulnerable people who have fallen through the cracks.
Navigating the NDIS should not be an additional challenge or burden for those families and vulnerable individuals who are already facing so much.
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Good work n all the best to you Phillip Thompson OAM MP - Serving Our Community, your family n friends
And then, there's 'my aged care' and accessing ACAT assessments! Another minefield!