Qld parliament live blog: Education minister John-Paul Langbroek in the firing line
The state’s education minister has faced a grilling in parliament after his ‘I’m not a teacher’ defence on the state of his unambitious NAPLAN targets.
John-Paul Langbroek directly avoided answering a question probing if he would stand aside from the education portfolio if NAPLAN results did not improve, as he highlighted a plan he would take.
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Who needs the moral high ground, we’re in power
The decision by Queensland’s disaster review boss to fly overseas during Alfred exposes poor judgement by himself and the Emergency Services Minister, writes Hayden Johnson.
Premier defends $356k-a-year disaster boss’s holiday as cyclone chaos hit
Premier David Crisafulli says the man overseeing Qld’s disaster response and recovery who went on leave as 100km/h winds and torrential rain bore down SEQ did not need to be present during the event.