Time for answers on government fails
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the Public Service Commissioner will publicly release the findings of a disciplinary investigation into Child Safety staff who failed Mason Lee once completed.
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the outcome of a disciplinary investigation into Child Safety staff who failed Mason Lee will be publicly released when the Public Service Commissioner is finished.
“It is being conducted by the Public Service Commissioner,” she told parliament.
“It’s not being conducted by me or the minister, it’s being conducted by the Public Service Commissioner.
“That investigation will take its course and it will be done thoroughly by the Public Service Commissioner and when it’s completed, the Public Service Commissioner will release its findings.”
Ms Palaszczuk’s commitment comes after she passed off both investigations to the Public Service Commissioner.
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“There are ongoing matters to be considered and we will not make any further comment at this time,” Public Service Commission chief executive Robert Setter said on the Mason case, following the coroner’s findings that 21 public servants failed the toddler “in nearly every possible way”.
Neither would he give an update on the probe into Education Department staffers blasted by the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) for interfering, lying and falsifying student enrolment figures in the recruitment of the Inner City South Secondary School principal.
The watchdog found serious cultural issues in its 7-month investigation of the school saga that cleared former deputy premier Jackie Trad of corruption allegations that she’d interfered in the process, but found Fitzgerald-like concerns within the public service.
LNP Leader Deb Frecklington said passing the buck to the Public Service Commissioner on both issues was a failure of leadership to begin with.
“Of course Queenslanders should see the report before the election, anything less is a cover-up,” she said.
Meanwhile, the government still hasn’t released its latest hospital performance data, despite Deputy Premier and Health Minister Steven Miles committing to publish it last month.
The Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council resolved in March to suspend all national performance reporting because of the COVID pandemic.
However, Mr Miles promised to release the June update on system performance in July.
His office said on Wednesday that work was still not ready.