David Crisafulli promised Queenslanders, including families across the Redlands, that you would keep their energy rebates.

On the campaign trail in October 2024, and reported by ABC News, he vowed that “no one will lose a cent” on their power-bill relief under an LNP government.

Now that promise has been broken.

Instead of relief, Redlands households are facing higher power bills and broken trust.

This betrayal reveals the truth behind the LNP’s so-called Energy Roadmap, formally released last month, which prioritises keeping coal burning for decades longer and invites privatisation into Queensland’s public energy system.

It’s not a plan for the future, it’s a plan to hand your money over to some of the world's richest people.

Premier Crisafulli has repeatedly defended extending the life of Queensland’s coal-fired generators, claiming they can keep running “indefinitely”.

The facts are these plants are increasingly unreliable and expensive to maintain, each extension pushes up costs and undermines reliability which are the very problems the LNP promised to fix.

Those working in coal mines have also slammed the LNP’s plan for leaving communities in the dark, without clear advice on when their community will be impacted by the eventual, albeit significantly delayed, coal plant closures.

How David Crisafulli allowed his government to be manipulated by the climate deniers in his party, and at the same time fail Queensland's mining sector workforce shows the depths he will go to, just to keep his grasp on power.

By cancelling clean energy projects, the Crisafulli LNP Government is jeopardising manufacturing jobs and regional economies.

Global industries now demand low-emission power and now that Queensland can’t deliver it, investment and jobs are already going elsewhere.

The roadmap’s repeated references to “private-sector involvement” signals a return to the LNP’s old habits of selling off what Queenslanders built. Taxpayers in the Redlands could rightly ask whether the LNP learned anything from Australia’s failed experiments with privatisation of essential services.

Meanwhile, households across the Redlands and beyond, are leading where the Government lags.

They’re installing rooftop solar, purchasing hybrids and EVs, and joining Labor’s Cheaper Home Battery Program - cutting bills and strengthening the grid themselves. Queenslanders are showing the ambition their State Government now lacks.

The LNP promised energy relief, reliability and reform. Instead, they’ve axed rebates, extended coal reliance, opened the door to privatisation and put mining towns into limbo.

Redlands families deserve better. You deserve a government that keeps its word, invests in the future rather than denying it, and builds Queensland’s industries so our prosperity grows.

But at the heart of the deception, the LNP axed the rebates they explicitly promised not to, and with that, they’ve axed their credibility.