Jackie Trad faces sustained integrity grilling in Question Time

Treasurer Jackie Trad has been challenged to reveal information she has hitherto kept under wraps, as the Opposition maintains the pressure over integrity issues.  AS IT HAPPENED

TREASURER Premier Jackie Trad has refused to be drawn on questions over whether she declared her Woolloongabba investment property in dealings regarding the new South Brisbane high school and Cross River Rail.

Responding to a question by LNP frontbencher Fiona Simpson over whether she'd breached Parliament's Standing Orders, Ms Trad referred her to her answers at the recent Estimates Hearings.

Ms Trad said the matters were before the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Ms Simpson called out from the Opposition benches that the question related to standing orders.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has been asked when she will show some leadership and sack Deputy Premier Jackie Trad.

Earlier, Opposition frontbencher Jarrod Bleijie asked Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to confirm if any communications Ms Trad had about the Inner City South State Secondary College and the Cross River Rail were made in accordance with standing order 262.

Ms Palaszczuk said she would have to take the question on notice.

Standing order 262 says a member must disclose any known pecuniary interest in any communications they have with other members, Ministers or servants of the Crown if “such pecuniary interest is significantly greater than the interest held in common with subjects of the Crown or members of the House”.

The pecuniary interest must relate to the communications that were made by the member.

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