Mr Marty Hunt MP

Supported the bill, drawing on his policing experience to argue education alone is insufficient and welcoming new seizure powers and parental accountability.

“This bill is sensible and considered lawmaking and strikes the right balance to ensure safety, particularly of our children.”— 2026-06-04View Hansard

Supported the bill as striking the right balance between maintaining strong environmental protections and ensuring a practical, modern and efficient regulatory system, welcoming the risk-based ERA approach and clarity around significant environmental values.

“This bill is about striking the right balance. It is about maintaining strong environmental protections for Queensland while also ensuring our regulatory system is practical, modern, efficient and easier to navigate.”— 2026-06-02View Hansard

Supported the bill as essential to replace fragmented responsibility with a dedicated authority, citing congestion and derelict vessels on the Noosa River, shoaling at Mooloolaba and the Bribie Island breakthrough as evidence of the need for coordinated management.

“That is why the Sunshine Coast Waterways Authority Bill 2026 is so important. This bill recognises something very simple: our waterways are too important to be managed through fragmented responsibility and bureaucratic overlap.”— 2026-05-14View Hansard