Treasurer Cameron Dick has skirted around a question from the Greens on whether he would whack gas corporations with super profits tax just as he has done on coal, considering the increased royalty rates has been about giving Queenslanders their fair share.
The question came from South Brisbane MP Amy MacMahon, who joins us in the chamber after a 24 hour suspension.
Mr Dick uses his time to throw shade on the Greens.
He eventually steers himself back to the point (which he has made before) that the government locked in a gas royalties deal with the sector in 2020 which goes for five years.
Parliament live: Anthony Albanese's infrastructure cuts to dominate parliament
The Albanese government's cuts to major Queensland projects have been labelled outrageous by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. QUESTION TIME LIVE
Federal government cuts to Queensland infrastructure projects have been labelled "outrageous" by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and could put the 2032 Olympic Games at risk.
The issue is expected to dominate parliament today.
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Greens call for equal opportunity revenue hit on gas companies
Katter booted after fisheries question
Katter's Australia Leader Robbie Katter asked Agriculture Minister Mark Furner about comments made by a Queensland Fisheries officer who allegedly claimed the seafood industry association was "lacking sophistication and professionalism".
Mr Katter asked whether the minister would condemn the comments or stand down the public servant.
The minister said an investigation was underway but had not been finalised.
"It's not my role to stand down a public servant," he said.
Mr Katter's interjections during Mr Furner's answer saw him booted from the chamber for one hour.
Premier slams 'outrageous' infrastructure cuts
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk labelled the federal government's infrastructure cuts "outrageous".
She said the Commonwealth collected 80 per cent of taxes and insisted Queensland would not accept cuts to projects including upgrades on the Bruce Highway.
"Our officials have been engaging to make that position clear," she said.
Ms Palaszczuk also took aim at Ms King's claim there were no surprises for states in the cash cut.
"This Infrastructure Review does not have our cooperation, to say otherwise is dishonest," the Premier said.
Deputy Premier Steven Miles said Queensland needed major new infrastructure ahead of the 2032 Olympic Games, but said federal Labor's plan "could put all this at risk".
Treasurer Cameron Dick called the cuts a "body blow to Queensland".
"These cuts will mean Queenslanders will be forced to wait longer in traffic, drive on more dangerous roads and
"Queensland has not and will not cooperate with the federal infrastructure minister's cuts.
"Do not try to rope us into your bad decisions."
Government yet to provide full response to police 'call for change' report
The government is yet to provide a full response to a major report calling for an overhaul of the way Queensland Police deal with domestic and family violence.
Opposition domestic violence prevention spokeswoman Amanda Camm noted the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into police was handed down in November 2022 and the government’s initial response accepted all 78 recommendations.
But a year on there was no final and formal response from the state government.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the government had been implementing the recommendations and that she would be happy to get the minister in-charge to provide an update.
Fears of Queenslanders dying when mistaking Satellite Hospital for a full grown hospital
What guarantee does Health Minister Shannon Fentiman have that Queenslanders won’t die if they go to Satellite Hospitals mistakenly thinking they can get emergency care?
Ms Fentiman argues the question from Opposition assistant justice spokeswoman Laura Gerber effectively assume Queenslanders get it wrong.
And she says they “absolutely deserve to get wonderful free healthcare” and if they rock up needing more assistance than the Satellite Hospital can provide, then they will be transferred to a hospital
Ms Fentiman then reads out the definition of a hospital as per the Cambridge Dictionary as “a place where people who are very ill and injured are treated by doctors and nurses”
Opposition Leader David Crisafulli interjects across the room that this wasn’t helping the government’s case because the central argument is that the term “hospital” carries certain medical heft which those satellite situations cannot immediately provide.
(Brief international fun fact: In a Singapore there are health facilities known as polyclinics which are government-run one-stop healthcare centers, “offering a broad range of medical services such as general consultations, health screenings, dental care, physiotherapy, and minor surgical procedures”)
Fentiman faces fungal job question
Health Minister Shannon Fentiman is facing a grilling this morning.
Deputy Opposition Leader Jarrod Bleijie is now asking Ms Fentiman to confirm there is no permanent director of cardiac surgery at the Prince Charles Hospital in the middle of a fungal outbreak.
She has pledged to check and come back to him.
Hospital advertising campaign questioned
Shadow Treasurer David Janetzki asked would taxpayers have to fund a $1m advertising education campaign if the government had listened to advice and not called satellite hospitals 'hospitals'.
Ms Fentiman said more than 7000 people turned up to GPs each year who needed to be taken code one to emergency departments.
She said it was time the LNP "stopped whinging and stopped complaining".
Come and visit our hospitals: Fentiman
Opposition health spokeswoman Ros Bates asked Health Minister Shannon Fentiman if she would explain why Queenslanders were not told about the hundreds of category one and two patients who turned up at satellite hospitals for treatment.
"I'm not going to judge any Queenslander for turning up to get free and accessible care," she said.
Ms Fentiman invited Ms Bates and Opposition Leader David Crisafulli to visit the satellite hospital and called for them to support it.
It was a comment Ms Bates took offence to and Ms Fentiman withdrew.
A satellite hospital by any other name would treat the sick
The overwhelming portion of patients accessing care at Queensland’s controversially-named Satellite Hospitals don’t need urgent help requiring the facilities of a full blown hospital Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has said.
Opposition Leader David Crisafulli, during question time, is prosecuting the case of the term “Satellite Hospital” being a confusing misnomer for a facility which can’t provide care for category 1 and 2 patients.
He’s asked why the government won’t change the name.
Ms Fentiman said sometimes people don’t realise how ill they are, making reference to cases in August when the Satellite Hospitals first opened and heaps of people presented with respiratory conditions toward the end of the flu season.
She said satellite hospitals had resuscitation rooms and an ambulance bay so that the sickest people, or those whose conditions suddenly deteriorated, can be transferred to a hospital.
Premier considers satellite hospital expansion amid controversy
Opposition Leader David Crisafulli asked Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk why she "ignored warnings" and called satellite hospitals 'hospitals' following reporting in The Courier-Mail hundreds of category one and two patients had wrongly turned up.
Ms Palaszczuk said the hospitals were a success and she would work with Health Minister Shannon Fentiman to "see where we can expand them".
The Premier said Mr Crisafulli "doesn't support them" and claimed the LNP "would sell them".
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