Member for Nanango, Deb Frecklington said Labor needs to come clean with Queenslanders on up to six new taxes proposed to pay for a Brisbane rail project.
Mrs Frecklington said Labor had released a heavily edited, five-page document earlier this week that made no mention of higher car registration charges on all Queenslanders to fund Cross River Rail.
“Labor’s been caught out hiding how it really plans to cover the costs of this $5.4 billion project – by slugging families in the the Nanango Electorate for a public transport system they may never use.
“Why did Annastacia Palaszczuk hide her plan for Queensland motorists to fund this project to the tune of $1.2 billion when it released its heavily edited version of the business case two days ago?
“And how we can now believe her now when she says it’s not going to happen? Labor's plan to hit every Queenslander in the hip pocket every time they pay their car registration has been exposed and Labor is in damage control.”
Mrs Frecklington said Labor had form in ruling controversial policies out, only to spring them on Queenslanders at the last minute including breaking its election promise of no new taxes and charges.
“Yet again Annastacia Palaszczuk and Jackie Trad haven't been honest with Queenslanders,” she said.
“We saw it when Labor pushed through compulsory preferential voting, when they wouldn't release the State Actuary's advice on their superannuation raid and now we're seeing Labor hiding the real facts about how Cross River Rail will be funded.
“The Palaszczuk Labor Government needs to come clean, publicly release the full business case for this major SEQ project, to assure regional Queenslanders they won’t face higher rego costs.”
