Politics by KELMENY FRASER
Premium Content  It took just 24 hours for Labor-linked lobbyist Evan Moorhead to secure access to Treasury officials via ex-Treasurer Jackie Trad s office for a millionaire hotel owner seeking a state bailout. Emails released to The Courier-Mail through Right to Information laws reveal Mr Moorhead had secured a meeting with a top Treasury official for his client just 24 hours after an email introduction by Ms Trad s then chief-of-staff Mark Bellaver. The client, Imperium Tourism Holdings, would later receive taxpayer-funded help in the form of a Queensland Treasury Corporation loan. It shows the speedy introduction lobbyist of the hour and former Labor state secretary Evan Moorhead was able to secure to a high-ranking Treasury executive for a client of his lobbying firm Anacta Strategies.
Politics by KELMENY FRASER
Premium Content  It took just 24 hours for Labor-linked lobbyist Evan Moorhead to secure access to Treasury officials via ex-Treasurer Jackie Trad s office for a millionaire hotel owner seeking a state bailout. Emails released to The Courier-Mail through Right to Information laws reveal Mr Moorhead had secured a meeting with a top Treasury official for his client just 24 hours after an email introduction by Ms Trad s then chief-of-staff Mark Bellaver. The client, Imperium Tourism Holdings, would later receive taxpayer-funded help in the form of a Queensland Treasury Corporation loan. It shows the speedy introduction lobbyist of the hour and former Labor state secretary Evan Moorhead was able to secure to a high-ranking Treasury executive for a client of his lobbying firm Anacta Strategies.
Secret emails have revealed how a millionaire hotelier gained access to top Treasury officials within just 24 hours of an email introduction via then-Treasurer Jackie Trad’s office.
Former Queensland treasurer agreed to pay quarantine bill28/02/2021|1min
The Queensland Deputy Premier s random act of tearing up a $30 million quarantine bill has been undermined by revelations the state s former treasurer had already agreed to pay it.
Jackie Trad agreed Queensland would fund the hotel quarantine at a Board of Treasurers meeting on April 1.
Meeting minutes show she agreed it would be reconciled among states and shared according to residency.
Steve Miles has been maintaining quarantine is a federal responsibility.
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Steven Miles pledge to tear up a $30m hotel quarantine bill sent by New South Wales has been dealt a blow following revelations Jackie Trad agreed to pay the cost during national crisis talks held just weeks before she was deposed. The Sunday-Mail can reveal Ms Trad was among the nation s Treasurers who, at a Board of Treasurers meeting on April 1, agreed that states would fund the costs of hotel quarantine accommodation. Mr Miles has since reneged on that pledge, filming a video of himself tearing up the invoice and insisting the state won t pay until the Commonwealth develops a national approach to quarantine.