Springfield City Group welcomes LNP to Springfield - creating local political conflict

Senator Paul Scarr
It might be hard for even astute political watchers to believe but the Springfield City Group (SCG) headed by Maha Sinnathamby has reportedly offered the newly-elected LNP Senator Paul Scarr space for an electorate office at Springfield in the same building owned and occupied by SCG on Sinnathamby Boulevard.

This is certain to pit the conservative Senator against sitting ALP members deep in Labor Party heartland.

SCG, previously the Springfield Land Corporation, is not renowned for being particularly politically savvy especially with its cohort of advisers to Chairman Maha - Bob Sharpless, Richard Eden, Russell Luhrs and the erstwhile Jimmy Varghese - as well as a bevy of family members.

SCG's latest actions will be long remembered by many influential locals.

The Courier-Mail 10 September 2019
Senator Scarr lives in a leafy, well-to-do Brisbane suburb and will almost certainly find it difficult to connect with the battlers of Greater Springfield.

His only contribution to Queensland politics so far is that his success meant the end of the careers of arch-conservative Senators Ian Macdonald and Barry O'Sullivan.

In one of his first political observations, Senator Scarr has called for an NRL team in PNG but has said nothing about one for Springfield or the rest of Ipswich.  

Maha's Tower of Power
at Greater Springfield

Maha Sinnathamby




Surely this political novice should be backing Queensland and especially the Springfield region and the rest of Ipswich where he is planning to move his new office.

SCG are the greatest political lobbyists in the nation (except for the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia) so SCG's future efforts to get the ear of government will be just a 10-second lift ride away!

How soon before the PM Scott Morrison turns up to officially open the new office?