Statement from Shadow Minister for Public Works, Tim Mander
Six weeks ago Minister Mick De Brenni received the QBCC Governance Review.
He chose to release it today.
Less than 24 hours after the release of the Coaldrake Review, the State Government is still up to its old tricks.
Mr De Brenni released the review today, in the hope it would get washed away in the news cycle.
This government won’t change.
This government has learnt nothing.
Just yesterday, the Coaldrake review revealed the rotten culture of this State Government.
Today is just another example of the Premier and her Minister’s blatant disregard for accountability and transparency.
Unlike yesterday, this is not a ‘lock, stock and barrel’ response of the reviewers recommendations.
Many of the 17 recommendations are ‘in principle’ and this government wants three years to clean up the problems.
The dysfunction of the QBCC needs to be addressed here and now. Not in three years.
At a time when the construction businesses are on their knees, the Minister has refused to rule out another tax, this time on the construction industry.
It’ll hurt honest tradies and Queenslanders will pay for it.
The reviewer acknowledged many of the issues plaguing the QBCC are longstanding and have been identified previously in numerous reports.
Mick de Brenni has been the Minister for 7 years.
The Premier has been in office for 7 years.
They have both let the issues crippling the QBCC fester for seven years without taking action.
Queenslanders are paying the price for their incompetence.
