Nicklin

Labor gain in 2020 (LNP since 2017). Rural hinterland, northern Sunshine Coast, mainly western side of Bruce Highway. Cooroy, Yandina, Nambour, Woombye, Palmwoods, Mapleton and Kenilworth. 686 square kilometres.

MELODY LINDSAY is the current Party President and a Nambour local who grew up in Mapleton. With a lower socioeconomic background, she has overcome many adversities in life, giving her a broad perspective on social justice issues the community undergoes every day.

She lost her partner and father of her two children to suicide and whilst raising the children as a single mum, experienced homelessness. She has, however, never let adversity defeat her. Instead, it led to self-education and achieving whatever she could to get a better life for herself and her children.

Studying Torres Strait Island culture, her children are of TSI descent, she helped form a dance troupe and performed and delivered Cultural Practice workshops across the south-east coast of Queensland. Melody has worked in Early Childhood Education, as a Youth Custodial Corrections Officer and as a general labourer in farming, nursery and landscaping.

Melody is concerned about local and state-based issues such as homelessness, lack of mental health funding and rehabilitation facilities, wastage of police resources on petty victimless ‘cannabis crimes’, whilst violent crime rates continue to increase.

She sees hemp as a highly valuable commodity that could not only provide jobs in agriculture, manufacturing and research but also provide a positive way forward to a healthier environment and a healthier economy.

Melody supports the right for adults to choose cannabis as a safer social alternative to alcohol and prescription drugs and will be advocating to bring about this change along with home-grow rights to help reduce the cost of medical cannabis.

As the President of the Legalise Cannabis Queensland Party, Melody wants a better deal for all Queenslanders, so she has rolled her sleeves up and is ready to do what is needed to make cannabis law reform happen, sooner rather than later, in the Sunshine State.

Early Voting Centres 14-18 Oct / 21-25 Oct - Mon to Fri 8am-6pm \| F=Full Disabled Access \| A=Assisted Access \| Cooroy Memorial Hall, 23 Maple St, Cooroy (F) Returning Officer - Shop 4, 81-87 Currie St, Nambour (F) Polling Booths 26 October, 8am-6pm Burnside State School, 51 Blaxland Rd, Burnside (F) Cooroy Memorial Hall, 23 Maple St, Cooroy (F) Federal State School, 40 Middle Creek Rd, Federal (A) Kenilworth State Comm. College, 3717 Maleny-K’worth Rd, Kenilworth (F) Kureelpa Public Hall, 2-4 Jewett Rd, Kureelpa (F) Mapleton Community Hall, 31 Obi Obi Rd, Mapleton (F) Nambour State College-Junior Hall, Coronation Ave, Nambour (A) Nambour Heights Bowls Club, 54 Isabella Ave, Nambour (F) Palmwoods State School, 111 Palmwoods-Montville Rd, Palmwoods (F) Woombye State School, 95 Pine Grove Rd, Woombye (A) Yandina State School, 48 School Rd, Yandina (A)
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Day One of Early Voting and LCQ's President is out shaking the hand of the Opposition Leader, introducing herself and the Party!