Roads flooded around Cairns

There are many roads closed after flooding around Cairns overnight:

- Kamerunga Road at Freshwater,
- Captain Cook Highway at Trinity Beach,
- Brown Street at Westcourt,
- Mulgrave Road at Earlville
- Low lying streets around Edmonton including Shaft and Farmer Streets.

The substantial overnight rainfall has also caused power cuts on the Northern Beaches and other suburbs, that are still to be repaired this morning.

Cairns Katter candidate welcomes LNP preferences backflip

Katter's Australian Party candidate for Cairns, Darren Hunt, has welcomed the move by the Cairns LNP to ignore their official party position on preferences with Katter’s Australia Party.

“It is clear from the actions of the Cairns LNP team that they realise their candidate is in trouble and are now ignoring their party’s much publicised position on preferences," Darren Hunt said today. "Even though the party continues to trot out the tired old line of just Vote 1, in reality the Cairns LNP are telling voters they have a preference deal with The Australian Party.”

“It is a bit rich of the Cairns LNP to tell voters at the polls that they are exchanging preferences with us, when their candidate continues to tell the public they will not get involved with minor parties or the ‘Mad Katters’. They need to be honest with the electorate."

Darren Hunt says that if Gavin King wanted a preference deal with Katter's Australian Party, he should just :have the courage to come out publicly and ask" instead of getting his lackeys to do it behind the scenes.

"It just highlights the ongoing hypocrisy of this party and this candidate in particular,” Darren Hunt says. “The truth is we do not have a preference arrangement with any one so the LNP should stop misleading voters."

"Our position is clear: put the Australian Party candidates first, put who you don’t want last and fill in the middle however you please. That way your vote will always count and ensure the person you don’t want to get in, does not benefit from your vote.”

You know it's an election when.... there's a fake menu

An environmentalist was booted out of an LNP business luncheon today in Brisbane.

In attendance were John Howard and Campbell Newman.

These fake menus were distributed on the tables.... the correct menu is on the right.

Thanks to the folk at the Brisbane Times.

Christian Lobby to hold poltical candidate forums

The Australian Christian Lobby is inviting all candidates for the seats of Mulgrave, Cairns, and Barron River to present their election platforms, in the run up to the State election.

There will be two Meet Your Candidates forums.

The first Forum will be held at the Cairns Baptist Church, 138 Lake Street at 6:45pm, Tuesday 13th March, for the seats of Mulgrave and Cairns. Wendy Francis, head of the ACL, will attend Tuesday's forum.

The second forum will be held at the Generations Church, 1 Moore Road, Kewarra Beach at 6:45pm, March 20th. This is for candidates for the seat of Barron River.

''This is an opportunity to show politicians and candidates seeking election that you care about how Australia is governed,'' Wendy Francis says.

The ACL says that the forums are run on a non-party partisan basis and encourages people to view it's information from a Christian perspective, on their special election website.