Steven Miles has again defended his decision to plunge the state into further debt by borrowing $1.4bn to provide free lunch to every Queensland state primary student, and launched fresh attacks over the LNP’s position on abortion.
Premier Steven Miles has refused to detail backroom negotiations organised by his union in the days after Annastacia Palaszczuk’s resignation.
David Crisafulli secured a $321,600 grant when a Newman government minister for a call centre in Townsville to be set up by an LNP donor who gave him a job when he lost his seat.
One of David Crisafulli’s self-declared pro-life candidates admits she wants abortion laws changed but ‘can’t say anything’ before the state election.
David Crisafulli is set to repeal a ban on political donations from property developers that he decried as a ‘financial gerrymander’ as Steven Miles asked voters to reward him for borrowing billions of dollars for cost-of-living handouts.
David Crisafulli has no plans to control public sector salary growth, despite the bureaucracy’s wage bill ballooning by more than 75 per cent in a decade under Queensland’s Labor government.
Steven Miles has jetted back to the central Queensland city of Rockhampton to sandbag the Labor heartland seat with a $50m hospital expansion announcement.
Steven Miles’s populist promises will add an extra $9bn to Queensland’s debt bill, prompting warnings from rating agencies that the state’s AA+ rating could come ‘under pressure’.
The Miles government has defended its $1.4bn free lunch policy while demanding Canberra comes up with more state school funding.
Steven Miles has vowed to hold a plebiscite on nuclear power if Peter Dutton is elected as prime minister.
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