Former Labor MP Keith De Lacy says Jarrod Bleijie's new liability laws for company directors slash red tape

ATTORNEY-GENERAL Jarrod Bleijie has done something right, according to one former minister of the Goss Labor government. Find out what it is.

HE MIGHT be a lightning rod of controversy but at least one senior Labor figure has praised Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie for quietly passing laws to reduce liability for company directors.

Former Goss government minister Keith De Lacy, who is now president of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, said the reforms, which slashed the number of offences for which a company director can be held personally liable and restored the presumption innocence, would impact on all Queenslanders.

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"Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie has been criticised greatly in recent days for a range of hostile engagements," Mr De Lacy said.

"I have no comment on those but he deserves the applause of every Queenslander for hanging in there on director liabilities and delivering real, tangible outcomes.

"And there are no losers in this battle. He has moved Queensland to the front of the pack, where we always should be."

Keith De Lacy says he applauds the Attorney-General for introducing laws to reduce liability for company directors.

Mr De Lacy said the reforms, which were passed in the same week as tough new bikie and sex offender laws, would unshackle company directors from the burden of red tape.

"Too often these days we get buried in compliance, in ticking boxes, in protecting our backsides, at the expense of growing the company and thereby expanding the economy," Mr De Lacy said.

"This Bill will allow directors to be more entrepreneurial and it will encourage more competent people to become directors.

"And the outcome from all this will be, over time, higher standards of living, more jobs created, more taxes raised and therefore more social programs delivered."