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All the latest news on the Palaszczuk government's integrity crisis

Queensland Premier Steven Miles. Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire

Premier considers action after discovery of major integrity loophole

Premier Steven Miles is looking to close a major integrity loophole that has been exposed just six months out from the state election.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 16, 2024: Queensland opposition leader David Crisafulli during parliament sitting in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

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Premier demands LNP go public on secret lobbyist meetings

Premier Steven Miles says he will ask the Integrity Commissioner Linda Waugh to investigate a loophole that allowed lobbyists to hold secret meetings with the LNP.

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Secret cabinet documents released after integrity delays revealed

The Queensland Government has released previously secret cabinet documents after The Courier-Mail revealed a delay to the implementation of a key integrity measure.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - MARCH 5, 2024. Queensland Premier Steven Miles speaks during Question Time at Queensland Parliament in Brisbane. Picture: Dan Peled / NCA NewsWire

Premier channels Palaszczuk during brutal attack on integrity

Steven Miles has channelled Annastacia Palaszczuk as the Opposition goes on the attack over the Premier’s integrity. QUESTION TIME BLOG

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Director General of the Department of Justice and Attorney-general David Mackie speaks at a budget estimates hearing at Parliament House in Brisbane, Friday, July 26, 2019. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING

‘No bang for buck’: Why complaints ‘clearing house’ canned

The reason why a “clearing house” for corruption tip-offs and complaints recommended by the landmark Coaldrake integrity was dumped by the government has been revealed.

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17/07/2023: Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk , announce Flu vaccination will be free for Queenslanders at a press conf. at 1 William st, Brisbane . pic Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

Editor’s view: Multibillion-dollar blowouts but integrity too expensive

The same state government that hid a $2.4 billion blowout in its train building program and built a $200 million quarantine white elephant now claims an integrity measure is too expensive, writes the editor.

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Stacia’s squib: Premier backs down on integrity issues promise

Annastacia Palaszczuk will break her promise to implement Peter Coaldrake’s integrity recommendations “lock, stock and barrel”.

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A photo posted on Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's Instagram account pictured with retired judge Alan Wilson, AG Shannon Fentiman and Tony Fitzgerald following the conclusion of the inquiry relating to the Crime and Corruption Commission.Pic Instagram.

107 recommendations: Whistleblower laws ‘need complete rewrite

Laws protecting Queensland’s public service whistleblowers should be ripped up and redrawn in a bid to provide more protections a major review has concluded.

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DNA inquiry. Shaun Drummond (acting director General QLD Health) leaving Brisbane Magistrates Court. Picture: Matthew Poon

Eight consultants embedded: Big firm’s ties to Qld Health revealed

A major consultancy firm has revealed it has eight executives embedded within Queensland Health, with a regular flow of staff between the two bodies.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos AUGUST 1, 2023: Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk during the State Parliament Estimates in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Editor’s view: Premier must step up on reforms to state public sector

After pledging to implement the finds of the state’s integrity report “lock, stock and barrel”, the Premier has displayed zero urgency, writes the editor.

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk speaks to media at the recently completed social housing build in Cayuga St Nerang. Picture Glenn Hampson

Corruption watchdog’s warning over Palaszczuk’s new integrity laws

Warnings have been issued by the state’s corruption watchdog over gaps in the Palaszczuk government’s proposed integrity law changes.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 26, 2023: Queensland Minister for Transport and Main Roads Mark Bailey during a press conference in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

‘Rotten’ integrity scandal that won’t go away

The troubling Mangocube controversy has raised its ugly head again, with an anti-corruption campaigner calling for a royal commission into the long-running political scandal.

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Professor Peter Coaldrake Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk

Integrity matters, so it’s time for Palaszczuk to deliver

The longer implementation of the Coaldrake recommendations into the state’s public sector takes, the harder it is to take Annastacia Palaszczuk seriously when she says she cares about integrity in her administration, writes the editor.

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Professor Peter Coaldrake Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk

No apologies as State splashes $8m on consultants

Queensland’s Health Department has spent $8m on contracts with Deloitte since the release of the landmark Coaldrake report, despite warnings it erodes public service capabilities.

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