Paper Petition

To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The petition of the undersigned citizens of Queensland draws to the attention of the House the fact that the proposed Community Ambulance Cover appears intended to be applied inequitably, based on electricity usage rather than on private usage. For example, it appears that businesses will be levied, whereas the proprietors of those businesses will also be levied; it appears that persons owning more than one home will be levied more than once, i.e. once for each home. We have no objection to paying a levy based on a principal place of residence; we object strenuously to any citizen of Queensland having to pay more than one levy per family unit (consisting of a couple living together and their dependent children).

Your petitioners therefore request the House to ensure that whatever legislation is put in place is equitable, so that no one who presently pays an Ambulance subscription is worse off as a result of the new legislation.