Election Winners and Losers

Wyatt Roy

Labor MP Jon Sullivan made a fatal mistake that cost him one of Labor's crucial Brisbane seats. He was booed and jeered at a public forum last week after blaming an unemployed father for letting his 7 year old son wait two years on a Queensland hospital waiting list because he couldn't afford to have him seen to privately. His opponent was a 20 year old Liberal National Party candidate Wyatt Roy who was written off because of his age, but it looks like he's pulled it off.







Sullivan made his fatal error during a radio forum last week when a Bellmere resident asked him what he would do to get sick children diagnosed faster. "It's taken two years to take my son to the doctor to get him diagnosed because we don't have the money to actually go and pay a specialist so that he can go and get the proper help he needs at school" Robert Murphy said.



Sullivan replied "What parent would wait two years to get a child who they believe has a disability........" but he was drowned out by jeers and boos before he could finish the sentence. He apologised but it was too late, the damage was done.



But young Wyatt Roy isn't counting his chickens just yet, the postal votes are still coming in and he's very cautious in his comments. "The reality is if I'm elected, I will have to work twice as hard to be considered half as good" he said.




Can you imagine this mere babe in the bear pit of Canberra? Poor boy, they will eat him alive!