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Queensland Parliament Question Time blog: Adani day of reckoning arrives
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IT’S D-Day for the Adani Carmichael project with the Palaszczuk Government’s Environment Department expected to hand down its decision on the groundwater management plan.
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The department yesterday indicated it was on track to meet today’s deadline, which Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk imposed on her government following Federal Labor’s drubbing at last month’s federal election.
Adani was required to provide an updated version of its plan on Monday after the Government requested more information.
The Courier-Mail understands the Indian miner has been liaising with the Department since then.
It joins Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington’s announcement that she will place a decade-long freeze on coal royalties if the LNP is elected at next year’s election.
Ms Frecklington will use her Budget reply speech this morning to outline a plan to drive development in the Galilee Basin and create thousands of jobs.
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Plagued IeMR project under the spotlight
The Opposition has seized on secret recordings that show the Queensland Health director-general admitting there out problems with the roll out of new electronic medical records.
Opposition health spokesman John-Paul Langbroek asked whether the roll out of IeMR – the name of the project – would be haulted in light of the recordings.
An Auditor-General report has already exposed problems with the project, including a massive blow out in its budget.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the progressive roll out was being checked carefully.
"It will be closely monitored and it is always done in careful consultation with the clinicians and always patient care and patient safety is front and centre," she said.
"I have every faith in the Minister and the Director-General continuing those discussions."
– Jessica Marszalek
Bundaberg hospital funding questioned
THE LNP has kept up the attack on the Palaszczuk Government’s trustworthiness, this time targeting its position on a new hospital for Bundaberg.
Member for Bundaberg David Batt said Ms Palaszczuk had recently made her first trip to the city in more than 400 days and promised a new hospital but Tuesday’s budget did not contain any funding for it.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the first step in the process was to do an evaluation of the proposed hospital.
“That has come back and given it a tick and now we are going to go through a detailed business case,” she said.
She said Health Minister Steven Miles and the chairman of the local health and hospital service had confirmed they were actively looking for a new site for the hospital.
– Michael Wray
MP kicked out
TOOWOOMBA South MP David Janetzki has been booted from Parliament for an hour for interjecting.
Mackay Ring Road stage two
THE Government has batted down criticism the Budget does not contain money for the Mackay Ring Road stage two.
Opposition Infrastructure spokesman Andrew Powell claimed Labor had spruiked that it was funding that second stage, but it wasn't.
"How can Queenslanders trust a word this Government says," Mr Powell told Question Time.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said $60 million was in the Budget for the Mackay Ring Road.
"This is an 80/20 arrangement with the Feds … and we are getting on with the job," she said.
Amid uproar from the LNP, she said: "We're finishing stage one first … before we build stage two."
Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey told the House money was allocated for stage two and said he would write to the Speaker over the inaccuracies of Mr Powell's question.
– Jessica Marszalek
THE Opposition is phrasing the majority of its questions around the word "trust" this morning.
Moggill MP Christian Rowan has asked how Queensland could trust the Premier when the Government's promised ice rehabilitation centre for Rockhampton wasn't on track.
The facility is supposed to open in June 2020.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk conceded there was difficulty identifying the site.
"In relation to the ice facility I can confirm the department have been negotiating on a suitable block of land," she said.
"I understand the land has now been identified.
"Construction will start this financial year.
"There has been some difficult in identifying the site.
"It's about finding the right place."
– Domanii Cameron
Ice rehabilitation centre behind
THE Opposition is phrasing the majority of its questions around the word "trust" this morning.
Moggill MP Christian Rowan has asked how Queensland could trust the Premier when the Government's promised ice rehabilitation centre for Rockhampton wasn't on track.
The facility is supposed to open in June 2020.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk conceded there was difficulty identifying the site.
"In relation to the ice facility I can confirm the department have been negotiating on a suitable block of land," she said.
"I understand the land has now been identified.
"Construction will start this financial year.
"There has been some difficult in identifying the site.
"It's about finding the right place."
– Domanii Cameron
Arthur Gorrie Prison quizzed
The saga involving a statement declaring Arthur Gorrie as one of the state’s safest prisons has made its way into Parliament House with the LNP quizzing the Premier on the issue in Question Time.
GEO issued a statement last week declaring its Workcover record showed it was the safest.
It came three months after the Government announced it was bringing the state’s privately run prisons, including Arthur Gorrie, back into public hands citing safety reasons as well as a recent Crime and Corruption Commission prisons inquiry.
LNP corrections spokesman Trevor Watts asked Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk about the statement.
She said she would get more information but pointed to the CCC’s prisons inquiry which she said indicated running them privately was not the best model.
– Sarah Vogler
Is car rego competitive with other states?
Deputy Opposition Leader Tim Mander has asked the Premier how she could be trusted after saying yesterday that Queensland’s car registration fees were competitive with other states.
Mr Mander said the RACQ had said Queensland actually had some of the highest registration rates in the nation after the fees were hiked again at rates above CPI, the fifth consecutive rise.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said registration fees were actually indexed to a national inflation rate that was running at 3.5 per cent.
She said the LNP had put in place a 3.5 per cent government indexation rate that Labor had since scrapped.
– Michael Wray
Royalty hike under the microscope
PREMIER Annastacia Palaszczuk has ignored questions suggesting her Treasurer doesn't understand the impact of her hike on gas royalties.
In Budget questioning, Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington said Jackie Trad had "grossly misunderstood" who would pay her tax-grab on the resources sector.
The question came after reports Ms Trad wrongly claimed the 2.5 percentage point increase to the petroleum resources levy would only hit the export sector, rather than the domestic market too.
In answering, Ms Palaszczuk listed the LNP's actions in Government, and suggested an LNP Government would again pursue forced redundancies in the public service.
– Jessica Marszalek
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