Premier Steven Miles confronted by voter while on campaign in Mackay shopping centre

Premier Steven Miles says the state government is focused on the Bruce Highway after he was confronted by a voter in a Mackay shopping centre on day two of the election campaign.

Premier Steven Miles has been confronted about the state of the Bruce Highway while walking through a busy shopping mall in Mackay.

Mr Miles, spending part of day two of the election campaign in Mackay, strolled through Canelands Shopping Centre chatting to business owners and shoppers.

Early in the short visit a voter yelled out to Mr Miles asking about the state’s longest highway.

“Hey mate, you gonna (sic) fix the Bruce Highway?”

Mr Miles indicated his government was focused on the road, which has come under intense scrutiny in recent months amid a spate of deaths.

The aftermath of a truck crash and explosion on the Bruce Highway at Bororen earlier this year.

The voter, Zeb Russell, separately told the Courier-Mail said he was worried about the state of the Bruce Highway - which he drives on often.

“Regional people feel like we’re left out,” he said.

“All the services in the southeast… like they’ve got (Cross River Rail) getting built. “We’re getting nothing, like we might get a token little bypass, but there’s no real substance in what they’re doing.”

Mr Russell, who said he worked in the mining industry, said he was fed up with both major parties, taking aim at Labor for not doing much in their near decade in power at the state level, and also the LNP for squandering a decade in federal government.

He said he wouldn’t be voting for either major party at the upcoming state election.

Mr Miles strolled through the shopping centre with wife Kim, taking selfies with shoppers and getting his shoes polished - where he lamented he needed to get the heels fixed at a later date.

It comes after The Courier-Mail’s Help Our Highway campaign which calls for bipartisan support to finally “finish” the deadly road.

Treasurer Cameron Dick last month said the state was “not going to change” its position on the need for the federal government to chip in 80 per cent instead of 50 per cent when funding Bruce Highway projects.

Originally published as Premier Steven Miles confronted by voter while on campaign in Mackay shopping centre