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Mark Bailey MP

@markbaileymp.bsky.social
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Shadow Minister for Health, Mental Health & Ambulance Services, State MP for Miller, Queensland Parliament. Cyclist, swimmer, runner.

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boltali.bsky.social @boltali.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Not to mention the Yeronga Child and Youth Mental health facility - knocked down with a promise to rebuild. Still bare earth.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Australia's EV sales surge in March amid growing fuel security fears and rising petrol prices | ABC www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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EV sales surge as fuel anxiety clears auctions and showrooms in Australia
EV sales have surged in March, a month into the war in Iran. But it is not the only signal indicating a move away from fuel cars.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Male victim-survivors of childhood sexual abuse overrepresented in suicide statistics, but seldom spoken about |ABC www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
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Craig's experience of abuse is not uncommon — but it is seldom talked about
Craig Hughes-Cashmore spent more than 20 years living with persistent suicidal thoughts, an experience that many share but rarely feel able to discuss.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"Put on the full armour of God". Qld LNP Mackay MP Nigel Dalton campaigns for abortion criminalisation. Says the battle is "against demons" & he's now seeking God's redemption. Regrets his pre-election status & supporting initial parliamentary gag. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Rebel Queensland LNP MP urges colleagues to ‘put on the full armour of God’ and speak against abortion
Nigel Dalton says he sought to redeem himself ‘in the eyes of God’ by crossing the floor in an attempt to overturn the LNP’s abortion debate gag order
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Jeff Kennett unloads on Taylor, Hastie and Littleproud. He doesn’t miss…💥 💥
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
You just couldn’t make this stuff up… 🤦‍♀️ Liberal Party election autopsy delayed after Peter Dutton suggests report defames him and his staff | ABC
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Liberal election autopsy delayed after Dutton suggests report defamatory
The report, co-authored by Liberal grandees Pru Goward and Nick Minchin, has now been sent to a legal team to ensure it is watertight while the party decides what step to take next.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Crisafulli Government: ‘Potential conflict’ concerns over Create Health Advisory as $25m flows to big four consultants www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...
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Former department head’s firm lands major work in consulting cash splash
A two-part investigation into government consultant and contractor use also found $25 million awarded to “big four” firms despite the LNP’s tough election stance.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
LQBTI Legal service files fresh case to scrap Queensland kids gender care ban www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...
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Legal service files fresh effort to scrap Queensland kids gender care ban
The state government is facing its second major challenge to a ban on new public gender-affirming care for young people, after its own review warned of legal risks.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Queensland's annual road death toll reaches 16-year high under Crisafulli Government 😔 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Police crack down on drink driving, e-devices amid rising road death toll
More than 300 people have died on Queensland roads this year, with four additional deaths already recorded over the Christmas period. It has prompted a plea from authorities to ensure it does not get ...
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Very Joh 1980s
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
LNP opens door to hospital board overhauls, raising spectre of ‘cronyism’ | Brisbane Times
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LNP opens door to hospital board overhauls, raising spectre of ‘cronyism’
The Crisafulli government made sweeping changes to other boards, but lacked the power to remove health service directors for no reason – until now.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Qld political poll: Voters warming to Labor’s Steven Miles as Premier Crisafulli’s popularity slips | Brisbane Times www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/que...
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Voters warming to Miles as Crisafulli’s popularity continues to slip
New polling has revealed voters’ first positive personal perception of a Labor leader in three years, despite a dip in party support.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Crisafulli LNP Government facing fresh legal challenge over controversial puberty blocker ban | ABC
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Qld facing fresh legal challenge over controversial puberty blocker ban
The action is being taken on behalf of the same mother of a transgender teenager who previously successfully fought the state's first ban.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Who can blame them? Premier Crisafulli seems intent on driving highly skilled radiation clinicians and nuclear medicine scientists interstate by cutting their pay by $30,000 🤦‍♀️ The waitlist across Queensland blowouts will be through the roof if they do…
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Queensland's new coercive control laws brought in by @qldlabor.bsky.social, see more than 50 charges in six months www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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More than 50 coercive control charges laid in six months since criminalisation
The standalone legislation — named in memory of Brisbane mother Hannah Clarke, who was murdered alongside her three children by her estranged husband in 2020 — came into effect in May.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
More secrecy from Premier Crisafulli & embattled Health Minister Tim Nicholls… 🤦‍♀️ #nointegrity #brokenpromise #notransparency
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The LNP are very 20th century in their thinking
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
What a disgrace from this secretive and slippery Crisafulli Government. Cutting but not telling anyone that’s what they are doing, including the local LNP MP Christian Rowan 🙄
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Qld Labor Leader Steven Miles just moved a motion for Queensland Parliament House to support net zero and Premier Crisafulli is sprinting away from it at speed by changing the whole motion to avoid a vote on it! 😂😂 So much for being moderate!! 🤦‍♀️ #sameoldLNP #HardRight
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Embattled Health Minister ⁦‪Tim Nicholls caught out letting down Mackay patients & residents as Base Hospital expansion put off further into the never never with no funding and no timeline 🤦‍♀️ ✂️ Local LNP MP ⁦‪Nigel Dalton in hiding 🙄
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Hospital expansion on hold as price tag doubles to $520 million
Brisbane contractor BESIX Watpac will leave the Mackay Base Hospital construction site in Queensland as a report finds the cost of a 128-bed expansion has more than doubled.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
An important announcement from Queensland Health Minister Nicholls… 😳
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Key public servant speaks out on ‘alarming’ pill testing ban by Premier Crisafulli | Brisbane Times
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Key public servant speaks out on ‘alarming’ health program ban
School-leavers will descend on the Gold Coast later this week. The lack of drug-checking services for them – and the state – has driven one bureaucrat to act.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
When asked if he takes responsibility for the gaps in the health workforce, so-called Health Minister NichollsMP wouldn’t answer the question… 🤦‍♀️
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Mother of transgender teen accuses Crisafulli Government of privacy breach that could have ‘outed’ her child | The Guardian
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Mother of transgender teen accuses Queensland government of privacy breach that could have ‘outed’ her child
Revelation comes as LNP accused of ‘intimidation’ after demanding sensitive medical details from parents of transgender children
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Diagnosis of gestational diabetes rises 70 per cent in five years, linked to pregnant woman's age and weight | ABC
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Mum shocked after being diagnosed with gestational diabetes as diagnoses rise
One in five pregnant women are diagnosed with the condition, which experts say is linked to age, weight and a lack of exercise.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A category 2 patient waiting for neurosurgery is supposed to wait a maximum 90 days but it’s been revealed a patient has to wait more than 400 days at the RBWH. After a year of the Crisafulli Goverment, sadly the mismanagement of health under Minister Tim Nicholls only escalates.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Queensland medical professionals to take industrial action as negotiations with Crisafulli Government stall | ABC
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Queensland Health workers take industrial action in bid for better conditions
About 2,000 radiographers, pharmacists and radiation therapists will take industrial action from Friday.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Dentists, Pharmacists Among Qld Health Staff to Strike Over Better Work Conditions | Courier Mail
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Trans people push to make healthcare more inclusive in the regions | ABC Sunshine Coast
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Why being trans in regional Australia means higher healthcare hurdles
A Queensland trans man says healthcare workers did not fully understand his needs when he sought fertility treatment.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Bumbling Brent Mickelberg, Premier Crisafulli’s LNP Transport & Main Roads Minister makes his first foray into national media… Fined for speeding by @qldpoliceservice.bsky.social The evidence was shot by his own staff member 🤦‍♀️ What a shambles & embarrassment. A national embarrassment 🙄
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Queensland teachers reject Crisafulli government pay offer | ABC
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Queensland teachers reject state government pay offer
Queensland Teachers' Union members vote against an offer of an 8 per cent pay rise, vowing to keep up their campaign for better wages and working conditions.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Supreme Court in Brisbane overturns controversial Crisafulli LNP Government freeze on puberty blockers for adolescents | ABC
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Court overturns Queensland's controversial puberty blocker ban
Queensland controversially barred public doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to patients aged under 18 earlier this year.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The ⁦‪Tim Nicholls botch-ups just pile up! 🤦‍♀️
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
So much for Premier Crisafulli’s election promise to ‘put doctors and nurses back in charge’… 🙄
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Crisafulli LNP government criticised over new 'jobs for mates' appointment of party powerbroker www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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'Frankly outrageous': LNP government faces new 'jobs for mates claim'
Queensland's Crisafulli government is embroiled in a new "jobs for mates" claim after it appointed a Liberal National Party powerbroker to oversee the state's lead agency for disaster recovery.
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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Australia) @ican-australia.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Talking #nuclearban treaty with @markbaileymp.bsky.social, state member for Miller, QLD, a longterm supporter of nuclear weapons abolition.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Crisafulli LNP Government primary vote is down 9% in Queensland since the election a year ago, Premier Crisafulli likeability is down 3% in last two months & preferred Premier rating down 5% while Labor vote remains solid. t.co/PTWTAuCD4x
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https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/miles-sheds-support-but-major-parties-neck-and-neck-20251015-p5n2os.html
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
‘Doesn’t even know how she died’: Health Minister Nicholls blasted over ramping tragedy by family www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensl...
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
💯!
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Another day, another health bungle under Premier Crisafulli & his hapless Health Minister Nicholls 🙄
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Bear-shaped pill kills person weeks after LNP shut down testing. Premier Crisafulli was warned… www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...
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Bear-shaped pill kills person weeks after LNP shut down testing
The alert issued by Queensland Health described the heroin-like synthetic opioid as a very strong substance that “can produce life-threatening toxicity in small amounts”.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Crisafulli government urged to take stronger action on conservation as number of threatened species rises | ABC
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Queensland government called out for 'not taking environment seriously'
The Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) has called out the LNP government for "not taking the environment seriously" with the number of flora and fauna species under threat on the rise.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
MP Christian Rowan called out over drug stance U-turn after supporting LNP bill despite being an addiction specialist | Brisbane Times
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MP called out over drug stance U-turn after supporting LNP bill
The MP had previously sponsored a petition calling on the Labor government to introduce the service he has since voted against.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The Queensland public hospital patients who ended up paying abortion clinics for miscarriage care www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Qld women denied chosen miscarriage care say it's like something from the US
Brisbane women have told the ABC they paid an abortion clinic for their chosen miscarriage care rather than getting it at their large public hospital.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Dementia-linked protein lower in people reporting vigorous exercise, study finds
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Dementia-linked protein lower in people reporting vigorous exercise, study finds
Scientists have, for the first time, linked exercise with a particular protein in the blood that is associated with brain health.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Qld Health tells staff to ‘hot desk’ in $50m budget-saving move by Crisafulli LNP Government www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...
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Qld Health tells staff to ‘hot desk’ in $50m budget-saving move
The shift is aimed at making “smarter use” of existing space at its three Brisbane offices, amid an increase in flexible working arrangements.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Former Queensland nurse in palliative care shares devastating experience of attempts to get urgent cancer surgery www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Former nurse 'extremely angry' after cancer deemed inoperable
Karenne Mosley was diagnosed with aggressive uterine cancer in March. She was booked in for surgery twice but is now in palliative care.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Calls for ‘no-brainer’ reforms in Queensland by Joe Kelly MP after nang dispenser found near Brisbane school
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Calls for ‘no-brainer’ reforms after nang dispenser found near Brisbane school
The rampant access to nitrous oxide has triggered a Queensland MP to demand reforms.
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Vale Robert Redford ✊❤️ | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Off the CliffScene (3/5) | Movieclips
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Mark Bailey MP @markbaileymp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Premier Crisafulli stands by embattled Minister Gerber and her appalling behaviour 😳
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