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Palaszczuk’s "faux" wages inquiry

8th May 2018

"The Palaszczuk Government’s wages inquiry is nothing more than a waste of time and money given the State has absolutely no control over federal wages legislation.

"Clearly Annastacia Palaszczuk’s spin doctors were desperate to come up with a ‘Clayton’s inquiry’ to ‘announce’ to their union comrades at Labour Day marches and this was the best they could come up with.

"The only wages the Queensland Government controls are those paid to state public servants and local government workers.

"I wonder how Queensland taxpayers feel about paying for Queensland MP’s to traipse around the State inquiring into laws they don’t even control – what a farce.

"What Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced will essentially be an examination of Labor PM Julia Gillard’s Federal Fair Work Act.

"Unless of course the Premier would like to re-examine the Bligh Labor government’s $1.2 billion Health Payroll debacle where Queensland’s doctors and nurses were drastically underpaid - a sorry saga that is still costing Queenslanders almost a decade later?"