LNP Deputy Leader Tim Mander has warned Queensland’s economy is coming to a standstill under the Palaszczuk Labor Government.
“Construction work done for this quarter was $7.5 billion less than Queensland’s peak under the last LNP Government,” Mr Mander said.
“By Labor’s own preferred measure construction work dived by a whopping 5.8 per cent in the last quarter.
“The last quarter was the worst for construction we’ve seen since December 2006*, well before the GFC struck.
“Annastacia Palaszczuk has no plan to support the 234,000 Queenslanders** working in the construction industry.
“In the last year, 5000 jobs have been lost in the construction industry in Queensland.
“With no construction and no business confidence in the Palaszczuk Labor Government, it’s no wonder Queensland continues to have an unemployment rate over 6 per cent.
“Workers in the construction industry continue to be ripped off under the Palaszczuk Labor Government and that’s why the LNP will call a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Queensland’s building industry, if elected in October 2020.
“More than 50 building companies have collapsed in Queensland since 2013 and this inquiry will get to the bottom of the issue.
“Only the LNP can deliver the infrastructure and business certainty needed to bring Queensland back to a position of economic strength.”
*https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/8755.0Dec%202018?OpenDocument
**https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/6291.0.55.003Nov%202018?OpenDocument
