Mark Bailey MP
@markbaileymp.bsky.social
Shadow Minister for Health, Mental Health & Ambulance Services, State MP for Miller, Queensland Parliament. Cyclist, swimmer, runner.
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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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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 🙄
Local LNP MP Nigel Dalton in hiding 🙄
Qld political poll: Voters warming to Labor’s Steven Miles as Premier Crisafulli’s popularity slips | Brisbane Times
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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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December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Qld political poll: Voters warming to Labor’s Steven Miles as Premier Crisafulli’s popularity slips | Brisbane Times
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Crisafulli LNP Government facing fresh legal challenge over controversial puberty blocker ban | ABC
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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December 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Crisafulli LNP Government facing fresh legal challenge over controversial puberty blocker ban | ABC
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…
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…
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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…
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…
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...
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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November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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...
More secrecy from Premier Crisafulli & embattled Health Minister Tim Nicholls… 🤦♀️
#nointegrity #brokenpromise #notransparency
#nointegrity #brokenpromise #notransparency
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
More secrecy from Premier Crisafulli & embattled Health Minister Tim Nicholls… 🤦♀️
#nointegrity #brokenpromise #notransparency
#nointegrity #brokenpromise #notransparency
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
So much for being moderate!! 🤦♀️
#sameoldLNP #HardRight
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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
So much for being moderate!! 🤦♀️
#sameoldLNP #HardRight
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 🙄
Local LNP MP Nigel Dalton in hiding 🙄
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.
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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 🙄
Local LNP MP Nigel Dalton in hiding 🙄
An important announcement from Queensland Health Minister Nicholls… 😳
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
An important announcement from Queensland Health Minister Nicholls… 😳
Key public servant speaks out on ‘alarming’ pill testing ban by Premier Crisafulli | Brisbane Times
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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November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Key public servant speaks out on ‘alarming’ pill testing ban by Premier Crisafulli | Brisbane Times
When asked if he takes responsibility for the gaps in the health workforce, so-called Health Minister NichollsMP wouldn’t answer the question… 🤦♀️
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
When asked if he takes responsibility for the gaps in the health workforce, so-called Health Minister NichollsMP wouldn’t answer the question… 🤦♀️
Mother of transgender teen accuses Crisafulli Government of privacy breach that could have ‘outed’ her child | The Guardian
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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November 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Mother of transgender teen accuses Crisafulli Government of privacy breach that could have ‘outed’ her child | The Guardian
Diagnosis of gestational diabetes rises 70 per cent in five years, linked to pregnant woman's age and weight | ABC
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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November 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Diagnosis of gestational diabetes rises 70 per cent in five years, linked to pregnant woman's age and weight | ABC
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.
After a year of the Crisafulli Goverment, sadly the mismanagement of health under Minister Tim Nicholls only escalates.
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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.
After a year of the Crisafulli Goverment, sadly the mismanagement of health under Minister Tim Nicholls only escalates.
Queensland medical professionals to take industrial action as negotiations with Crisafulli Government stall | ABC
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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November 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Queensland medical professionals to take industrial action as negotiations with Crisafulli Government stall | ABC
Dentists, Pharmacists Among Qld Health Staff to Strike Over Better Work Conditions | Courier Mail
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November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Dentists, Pharmacists Among Qld Health Staff to Strike Over Better Work Conditions | Courier Mail
Trans people push to make healthcare more inclusive in the regions | ABC Sunshine Coast
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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November 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Trans people push to make healthcare more inclusive in the regions | ABC Sunshine Coast
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 🙄
Fined for speeding by @qldpoliceservice.bsky.social
The evidence was shot by his own staff member 🤦♀️
What a shambles & embarrassment.
A national embarrassment 🙄
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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 🙄
Fined for speeding by @qldpoliceservice.bsky.social
The evidence was shot by his own staff member 🤦♀️
What a shambles & embarrassment.
A national embarrassment 🙄
Queensland teachers reject Crisafulli government pay offer | ABC
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.
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Queensland teachers reject Crisafulli government pay offer | ABC
Supreme Court in Brisbane overturns controversial Crisafulli LNP Government freeze on puberty blockers for adolescents | ABC
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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October 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Supreme Court in Brisbane overturns controversial Crisafulli LNP Government freeze on puberty blockers for adolescents | ABC
The Tim Nicholls botch-ups just pile up! 🤦♀️
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The Tim Nicholls botch-ups just pile up! 🤦♀️
So much for Premier Crisafulli’s election promise to ‘put doctors and nurses back in charge’… 🙄
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
So much for Premier Crisafulli’s election promise to ‘put doctors and nurses back in charge’… 🙄
Crisafulli LNP government criticised over new 'jobs for mates' appointment of party powerbroker www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
'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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October 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Crisafulli LNP government criticised over new 'jobs for mates' appointment of party powerbroker www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Talking #nuclearban treaty with @markbaileymp.bsky.social, state member for Miller, QLD, a longterm supporter of nuclear weapons abolition.
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Talking #nuclearban treaty with @markbaileymp.bsky.social, state member for Miller, QLD, a longterm supporter of nuclear weapons abolition.
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.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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.
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‘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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October 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
‘Doesn’t even know how she died’: Health Minister Nicholls blasted over ramping tragedy by family www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensl...