Last week we reported that LNP HQ wasn’t very happy with Liberal wunderkind Wyatt Roy, after he decided not to show up to an ABC-hosted candidates’ forum in his electorate of Longman. ReachTel polling in the area on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast shows that Labor’s Susan Lamb has been gaining on the innovation poster boy, so it seems he’s had a change of heart when it comes to candidates’ forums. After a local media campaign by the organisers, Roy turned up to face voters last night, after previously being listed as an apology. We’re told that Roy sat between the Liberty Alliance candidate and the Katter’s Australian Party candidate, and was seen looking at his phone while other candidates spoke. Is the pressure getting to him? The ALP is focusing more resources on the seat, as well as some others in Queensland the party believes could swing Labor’s way on July 2. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the swing is on in Queensland — the numbers aren’t certain.

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