A four-year wage freeze for state MPs has been scrapped. Now Qld MPs will have their pay packets boosted by thousands of dollars over the next 18 months.
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Premium Content As far as theatre goes, it was perfect. Education Minster Grace Grace, with all the disdain a minister can muster around an opposition question a government doesn t want to answer, rose in parliament to take umbrage to the story of Trevor from Caloundra . The poor bloke, so Opposition Leader David Crisafulli s tale went, had waited two hours for an ambulance while suffering a serious heart problem and another eight hours at emergency until a doctor could see him. Walked into that one ⦠Education Minister Grace Grace during Question Time. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dan Peled
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About $4 million dollars of the State Governmentâs promised $30 million has been spent on Great Keppel Island so far.
Tourism Industry Development and Innovation Minister Stirling Hinchliffe replied on May 21 to a question on notice from LNP leader David Crisafulli about the spending.
Mr Crisafulli asked for a breakdown of spending on the island, including how much had been spent on government staff, infrastructure and Rockhampton or Capricorn Coast businesses.
Mr Hinchcliffe replied: âThe need for greater certainty on private sector plans to redevelop the resort leases has delayed expenditure on island infrastructure development, however, the Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport has progressed investigations into infrastructure options that will support tourism development on Great Keppel Island.â
Treasurer and Minister for Investment The Honourable Cameron Dick
Queensland Parliament has today passed a series of measures the underpin the Palaszczuk Government’s plan to reduce debt and achieve $3 billion in savings over four years.
Treasurer and Minister for Investment Cameron Dick said the Debt Reduction and Savings Bill represented the latest step in the Government’s economic recovery strategy that is sustaining, supporting and creating jobs.
“The reform measures included in this Bill are will ensure that we use every dollar of taxpayers’ money as prudently as possible, delivering the infrastructure and services Queenslanders deserve,” the Treasurer said