Government hides former Labor Minister’s involvement in key Olympics report
The Palaszczuk Labor Government has been caught-out in another scandalous cover-up, with their so-called “independent” Olympics report exposed as being co-authored by a former Cabinet colleague of the Premier.
A $780,000 report was commissioned by the Labor Government to justify scrapping an Olympics’ Independent Infrastructure Delivery Authority and moving control of the Olympics and Paralympics into the Premier’s own department.
Despite confirmations from Deloitte that former Labor Minister Rachel Nolan was involved with the drafting of the report, an RTI released to the LNP either deliberately redacted her name with claims it was “contrary to the public interest” or she was not mentioned at all, which raises further questions.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition Jarrod Bleijie said the Palaszczuk Labor Government had been caught out in another cover-up and were now desperately attempting to cover their tracks.
“Labor’s dirty political tricks are now catching up with them, they’re being exposed on every front and can’t escape the chaos and crisis of their Government,” Mr Bleijie said.
“If they have nothing to hide, what are they hiding in this document?
“This Deloitte report was used to justify sucking-up all power for the Games into the Premier’s own department.
“It has been used to avoid all scrutiny of costs and decisions for Olympic infrastructure including rebuilding the Gabba with a whopping $1.7 billion blowout on the original cost.
“It was bad enough that Queenslanders were being kept in the dark about the content of the report itself, given we paid $44,000 for every one of the 18 pages.
“But now to learn their Labor mate’s fingerprints were all over the report shows this is nothing more than a callous political scheme, designed to feed this power-hungry government.
“A report which involved a former Labor Government Minister is anything but ‘independent’, every one of the 18 pages fulfilled a clear political agenda.
“This is another example of a Government more focused on what’s in their political interest than in the interest of Queensland.”
