Dramatic moment ex-Channel Seven star running for office is called out by a voter as Steven Miles and David Crisafulli go head-to-head in Queensland election

Bianca Stone, who resigned from being a TV reporter for Channel 7 in 2023, is LNP leader David Crisafulli’s candidate for the seat of Gaven.

Ms Stone was grilled by Highland Park resident Vicki Campbell on Saturday morning, according to the Gold Coast Bulletin, who asked Ms Stone where she had been throughout the election campaign.

Replying she’d been out and about, Ms Campbell hit back.

‘Not at our place,’ she replied before setting her sights on Mr Crisafulli.

‘How are you going to handle the health system?’ Ms Campbell asked the LNP leader.

‘By making sure it’s properly resourced,’ Mr Crisafulli said.

Ms Campbell later told the Bulletin she hadn’t seen Ms Stone out, ‘either door knocking or at Nerang’.

‘I’ve only seen her on a poster. Meaghan (Scanlon) is committed and consistent. She’s out there with the general public,’ Ms Campbell said.

‘I’m a Liberal voter by the way. I’m not a Labor voter.’

Russell Field, the LNP candidate for Capalaba, spent the day at the Alexandra Hills State High School polling booth – just 2km from where his son, partner and their unborn child were killed in 2021.

Mr Field, who is trying to take the seat from Labor’s Don Brown, said he thinks about his son every time he’s in the area.

‘It never leaves you and some might ask how can I do this [campaign] but something needs to be done,’ he told the Courier-Mail.

‘Don Brown’s comments that youth crime is a media beat up hit all the victims of crime – and they are the people who I want to help.’

Mr Brown has held the seat since 2015 and feels confident he’ll retain his position, despite backlash after he said youth crime was ‘a media beat up’.

He won the 2020 election with a 9.81 per cent margin.

Robbie Katter, the leader of Katter’s Australian Party, has threatened to sue the LNP over campaign signs that claim he made a secret deal with the current Labor government to keep it in power.

Lawyers on behalf of Mr Katter urged the state’s Electoral Commission to remove the poster from the voting centre at Mount Isa Central State School before 6pm local time, when voting closes.

Mr Katter accused the LNP of engaging in ‘gutter politics’ and asked the party leader David Crisafulli to personally take them down.

‘He knows that’s a lie and they’ve chosen not to,’ Mr Katter told the ABC.

‘It’s a very poor start to what is likely to be his tenure as premier.

‘People have to be held accountable for what they do, if they’re going to tell lies, they’ve got to be held accountable for it.’

He said Labor had done a ‘terrible job’ since it won government and ‘there’s a good reason everyone is trying to get rid of them’.

The poster does not identify the LNP but shows Labor leader Steven Miles and Mr Katter in Akubra hats with the phrase ‘they’ve done a deal, don’t risk it’.

They can also be seen around Townsville booths.

It’s understood the man started shouting about abortion at the polling booth at the Alexandra Hills State High School on Saturday, the Courier Mail reported.

Police were called by volunteers and officers arrived at the school and told the man to move on.

Brad Aldcroft has made the voting experience that much metter for Queenslanders today with his sausage sizzle menu.

Mr Aldcroft was selling sausage sandwiches for as little as $3.50 at the Capalaba College Hall, west of Brisbane, on Saturday.

Sauce was free while drinks were just $2 and plain white bread had a pricetag of 50c.

Many of his variations of sausage sandwiches were named after Aussie prime ministers.

Labor MP Les Walker claims signs have been tampered with in his seat of Mundingburra.

He told the ABC he has escalated the matter to the Electoral Commission of Queensland.

Peter Lindsay, from the LNP, said staffers had moved Labor signs ‘which were on the right hand side of the gate, when they should have been on the left’.

Internet issues saw printers at the St Finbarr’s Catholic Primary School school to shut down, forcing voters to be turned away on Saturday.

The printing issue meant ballot papers could not be churned out at the school in Ashgrove, Brisbane.

The Electoral Commission of Queensland told the Courier Mail it was aware of the issue, with only St Finbarr’s impacted.

‘As a precaution we are checking with our digital technology department to ensure they are already in correspondence with the Cooper electorate to ensure this is in hand,’ a spokesperson said.

It’s understood the issue has since been resolved.

A Newspoll conducted for The Australian ahead of Saturday’s election shows that despite efforts by Premier Steven Miles to claw back ground in recent weeks, Labor is on track for defeat after almost a decade in power.

The Newspoll shows the opposition leads the Labor government 52.5 to 47.5 per cent after preferences.

The poll of 1151 Queenslanders conducted from October 18 to Thursday shows Labor’s primary vote up three points to 33 per cent while support for the LNP remains stable at 42 per cent.

Steven Miles broke former Labor premier Anna Bligh’s record when he managed to visit 36 electorates in 36 hours.

Ms Bligh visited 50 seats in five days during 2012.

The Queensland Premier even utilised a jet ski to get around the state this week.

‘What better way to get between two Gold Coast seats than on a jet ski,’ he said.

He also enjoyed a traditional Aussie meat pie during his campaign.

David Crisafulli arrived with his wife Tegan vote at the Springwood State High school, for polling day in Brisbane on Saturday.

The pair were suitably dressed in blue, the colour associated with the Liberal party.

‘Here’s to a fresh start for Queensland,’ he said as he dropped his ballot.

Queensland Premier Steven Miles and his wife Kim voted at the Kallangur State School in Brisbane on Saturday morning.

Mr Miles was seen with his arm around his daughter Bridie as he headed to cast his ballot.