What would you call a broken promise? Maybe you seek to deceive, to delude, to falsify, to mislead or to con? In April 2022 then Labor opposition leader Anthony Albanese visited Cairns during the election campaign to promise $107.5 million for the Cairns Water Security Stage 1 project.

The Townsville Reef HQ Aquarium is at risk of permanent closure because of the Albanese Labor government’s failure to include $100 million in funding in its last budget last month.