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‘I will not give up’: Backbencher gets community’s back up over bench removal

Brisbane Times · 27 August 2026 at 2:53 pm

‘I will not give up’: Backbencher gets community’s back up over bench removal

A Queensland politician shared a recent win – he’d had a public bench removed to deter anti-social behaviour.

But the response was not so happy.

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