Just over six weeks after his election, the newly-minted Member for Whitsunday, Jason Costigan, has opened the doors to his electorate office, located in Federation House on Proserpine’s Chapman Street.
There are not enough hours in the day for ‘Costo’, who traverses the Whitsunday electorate from dawn to dusk, listening to the locals who sent him to Parliament with a healthy 14.1 per cent swing.
Don’t be fooled, though. Between the parliamentary sittings in Brisbane and the meetings in the office, Mr Costigan is determined to be hearing about the local issues straight from the locals themselves.
Yesterday was spent attending a Red Cross open day in Mackay, followed by a Whitsunday Leadership Group in Proserpine, with enough time to spare for a swing by the office at 2pm.
“I’m not going to be stuck in some bunker as the invisible man,” Mr Costigan said. “I’m big on face-to-face diplomacy, and that’s the approach I’ll be bringing to the job.
“I’ll be facilitating a number of meetings with organisations, individuals and stakeholders to listen to their issues,” he said. “The issues people have raised with me so far have been consistent with the issues raised in the 57 weeks I spent campaigning.”
Today and tomorrow will be spent in Brisbane, where Mr Costigan will conclude his parliamentary induction ahead of the first parliamentary sitting week of the term, scheduled for next week, during which he will be officially sworn in as Member for Whitsunday.
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