SORRY STATE OF AFFAIRS
Queensland is paying for Labor’s failures
Today’s Commsec’s State of the States Report has revealed Queensland has the worst performing economy of any state in the nation.
While Steven Miles and Cameron Dick were creating chaos and crisis, undermining the former Premier to line their own pockets, the State’s economic performance plummeted.
Labor’s broken tax promises, cost blow-outs and failed glossy announcements have caught up with them.
Labor’s economic management credibility lies in tatters.
Queenslanders know it because they’re living it.
Queensland has the highest cost-of-living increases on the big kitchen table bills, including insurance (15.9%) and health (7%).
Queensland has the largest rent increases in the country.
Queensland power prices have soared by 23.6%, the highest in the country. Labor said power prices wouldn’t go up after Callide went down. They have.
Queensland has the highest unemployment rate in the country.
Queensland’s growth per capita flatlined at 0% last year while every other state improved.
Queensland’s economy shrank last quarter while every other state grew.
It has never been clearer that Queenslanders are paying more for Labor’s failures.
You can’t trust Steven Miles and Cameron Dick to fix the economic crisis they created.
They have the wrong priorities and have put Queensland’s prosperity at risk.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future, including reducing Labor Government waste, rather than hitting Queenslanders with higher taxes and fees.
Statement by Deb Frecklington, Shadow Minister for Energy
Revelations from the Federal Court are an extraordinary development in Labor’s sorry saga of failures at the Callide power plant.
The Federal Court has torn-up all Labor’s excuses and called-out their disgraceful and dodgy behaviour.
What’s clear is the entire affair has driven-up power prices.
Labor cannot be trusted when it comes to Callide.
Labor has been caught red-handed, deliberately covering-up what happened, desperately trying to keep Queenslanders in the dark.
After 984 days, Labor’s Secret Callide Report is nowhere to be found.
Now even the Federal Court is fed-up with Labor’s chaos and crisis.
Queenslanders deserve the truth about Callide and they deserve a government who prioritises getting this critical power plant back online.
Labor is doing nothing more than making the Queensland Cost of Living Crisis worse.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s future, including saving you paying for Labor’s failures with a maintenance guarantee for our power plants.
LABOR’S DEADLINE DEBACLE
The State Labor Government has notched up another broken promise and another failure.
Yesterday was the seventh missed deadline to restore the Callide C power plant.
This is a major blow for Queenslanders in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.
Labor said power prices wouldn’t go up, after Callide went down.
They have.
Power prices have soared by 23.6% - the highest in the country.
The Auditor-General and the Queensland Competition Authority have also called this out.
The Opposition has again, on behalf of Queenslanders, called on the Energy Minister to release the long-awaited Callide Report.
This is a report Labor doesn’t want you to see.
Queenslanders deserve to see it, but the State Labor Government is hiding it.
The chaos and crisis within the State Labor Government is costing Queenslanders.
Labor can spin all they like, but Queenslanders’ soaring power bills don’t lie.
Premier, release the report.
And tell Queenslanders when Callide will actually be restored.
Labor’s missed-deadlines to restore Callide C include:
An analysis of the latest School Opinion Survey results has revealed during their decade in power, Labor has failed to listen and act on the views of Queensland students, parents, and school staff.
Across 49 key metrics outlined in the 2023 School Opinion Survey State Report, not a single measurement recorded any improvement from the previous year.
When asked whether “student behaviour is well managed”, since 2014:
Shadow Minister for Education, Dr Christian Rowan MP, said the latest results reflected ongoing school community sentiment that the Labor State Government was not interested in listening to Queensland’s students, parents, teachers and staff.
"The chaos and crisis of this third-term State Labor Government is affecting our schools," Dr Rowan said.
“This latest School Opinion Survey Report is a fail for the State Labor Government.
“Just as concerning, staff morale has shrunk by almost 12 percentage points since the State Labor Government was first elected.
“Our dedicated teachers and staff deserve to feel safe and respected in their workplace, and yet when asked whether they believe the wellbeing of staff is a priority at their school, there has been a shocking 15% decrease since 2014,” Dr Rowan said.
“Another important indicator on the strength of Queensland’s Education System is whether students and staff feel that their school ‘is a good school’.
“On this important metric, it is yet more failure from this Labor Government.
“Under Labor, there has been a 12% drop amongst Queensland students, and a 4.5% decrease amongst school staff, who are happy to say that they are at a good school.
“These are the results which ought to shame this tired, third-term Labor Government into action.
“For Labor to seek the views of over 188,000 students, parents, teachers and school staff, and then simply ignore the results is an insult to everyone who has taken the time to provide their important feedback.
“Queensland desperately needs a government focused on the right priorities when it comes to Queensland’s schools.”
"Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland's Future, including working harder for all Queenslanders.
"An LNP Government would prioritise lifting education standards and providing safe, high-quality education facilities for Queenslanders."
Labor has no one to blame but itself when it comes to Queensland’s waste and recycling data.
Since they launched their Waste Strategy and put in the Waste Levy, recovery rates for household waste have gone backwards.
Queenslander households are paying the price of this rubbish result.
In 2019 the recovery rate for household waste was 28.4%. Half a decade later it’s plummeted even further to 26.5%, far from Labor’s promise to deliver 55% by 2025.
This lacklustre performance is another outcome of Labor’s chaos and crisis.
What’s worse, it’s clear Labor has given up on assessing their own performance.
Despite eight months passing since submissions closed on the Draft Review Report, Labor are trying to cover-up their failure by refusing to release the final report.
Only 2 of their 9 targets are on track to be hit by 2025.
The Government must release the final report, come clean on their failures and outline a clear path to turn around these rubbish results.
Queensland has the worst recycling rate of any state and the responsibility lays at the feet of this tired, third-term Labor Government.
After nearly a decade, Labor isn’t listening and they are not focused on the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future.
An LNP Government would work with industry and local governments to prioritise practical measures to improve Queensland’s environment by reducing the impact of waste.
Students and teachers now at risk of a growing safety crisis
New figures obtained by the State Opposition reveal the growing safety crisis within Queensland schools, as students continue to be expelled daily for weapons, vaping, and illicit drugs.
To the end of Term 3, 2023, there were 6,359 student suspensions and exclusions recorded for drug-related incidents, including tobacco and vaping. That’s more than 43 suspension and exclusion incidents every school day.
Drug-related-incidents have risen from a 6-year average (2017-2022) of 4,880 incidents per year, to more than 6,350 incidents to the end of Term 3, 2023.
Shadow Minister for Education Dr Christian Rowan said the latest figures were deeply concerning, and demonstrate how the State Labor Government is losing control of safety within our schools.
“Every parent is right to be alarmed by these figures” Dr Rowan said.
“Queensland parents have the right to expect that their children will be safe while at school, and not exposed to weapons and drugs.
“Drug and weapons related incidents often result in violence and significant safety risks.
“These figures are as a result of the chaos and crisis of the State Labor Government, and only re-enforce why 1 in 5 school children don’t feel safe in Queensland schools, according the Labor Government’s own data.
“After successive years of failure, these figures must serve as a wake-up call and prompt immediate action from the newly installed Minister for Education.
“You can’t fix what you don’t measure. Incredibly, the Labor State Government still does not accurately capture the type of drugs and substances that students are caught using.
“We must have zero tolerance when it comes to drug use in Queensland schools.
"An LNP Government would ensure safety in Queensland schools by making our community safer.
"Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland's Future."
QUEENSLAND HOUSING CRISIS: Labor’s Community Housing Shame
Labor’s Community Housing shame has been exposed with a new report revealing Queensland is the only state to have fewer community homes today, than seven years ago.
In the middle of the Queensland Housing Crisis, Labor has overseen a 1% drop in non-government run housing, amounting to 120 fewer homes available for Queenslanders in need, than in 2016.
Since 2016, Community Housing in Queensland has fallen from 11,737 to 11,614 homes, the only State to go backwards, a new productivity commission report has exposed.
In the same time, New South Wales has increased its community housing stock by 63% and South Australia has increased by 68%, with totals across Australia surging by 44%.
The revelation is even more shocking given the Queensland Social housing waitlist has ballooned from 29,636 people in 2017 to more than 43,000, while the Queensland population has soared by more than 15%.
The falling number of community homes is a direct result of the State Labor Government’s failure to invest in and work with the community housing sector since it was elected more than nine years ago.
Shadow Minister for Housing, Tim Mander, said the numbers were another example of how Labor’s chaos and crisis was costing Queenslanders.
“In the middle of the Queensland Housing Crisis, Labor’s failures have sent community housing backwards and left more Queenslanders without a roof over their head,” Mr Mander said.
“Labor should hang their heads in shame for allowing Queenslanders to live in tents while they fail to work with the community housing sector to deliver the homes we need.
“Good governments build homes, but Labor has built-up nothing but false hope and broken promises to Queenslanders waiting for a roof over their head.
“Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future, including securing our housing foundations.
“To ease the Queensland Housing Crisis, an LNP government would prioritise infrastructure partnerships with local government to unlock more land for housing, unleash the community housing sector and set KPIs and deliver social housing projects on-time and on-budget.”
Statement by Shadow Minister for Energy and the Cost of Living, Deb Frecklington
Minister Mick de Brenni can spin and try keep Queenslanders in the dark all he likes, but Queenslanders’ rising power bills don’t lie.
The State Labor Government promised to have one of Queensland’s biggest power plants Callide C, back online by tomorrow.
They will now miss that deadline, again.
It has been 973 days since the explosion and tomorrow will be the seventh missed deadline since December 2022 to get Callide up and running.
Yesterday, Queensland did not have enough capacity to meet demand, failed to keep the lights on and had to buy power from New South Wales.
The litany of failures of the State Labor Government was the reason why we had a huge supply issue.
It's the price Queenslanders pay for Labor’s chaos and crisis.
Supply issues drive up prices. That costs Queenslanders more.
This is more proof you can’t trust Labor to deliver affordable, reliable and sustainable energy.
Queenslanders have the biggest pressures in the nation when it comes to electricity bills.
Slick Mick told Queenslanders their power bills wouldn’t rise after Callide went down, yet the average household electricity bill has soared by 23.6%.
How can Queenslanders trust anything he says?
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future, including saving you from paying for Labor’s failures.
The longer Labor is in government, the worse the Queensland Housing Crisis becomes
Alarming new ABS data has exposed the Queensland Housing Crisis is set to get worse, after the number of new homes has plummeted again in the past year.
The number of new homes built fell to just 32,411 across Queensland in the last year, a 6% drop on the previous year and an 18% drop under the Labor Government.
The number failed to meet Labor’s own target for South East Queensland, falling well-short of what was required across the State.
It is also staggeringly short of the 49,000 new home target Labor agreed to at National Cabinet, amounting to just two-thirds of the commitment.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition and Shadow Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning Jarrod Bleijie said the falling numbers were an outcome of Labor’s long-term failure to plan.
“Queensland needs more new homes, not less, to ease the housing crisis, by planning where and how new homes will be built,” Mr Bleijie said.
“The longer Labor is in government the worse the Queensland Housing Crisis becomes, and Queenslanders are paying a high price, whether they’re renting or buying.
“It is unfathomable the number of new homes has fallen by a fifth under Labor.
“Queensland has experienced the biggest falls in the last year alone.
“Amidst the chaos and crisis, Labor has not only miserably failed their own target, it’s clear they simply have no plan to deliver the new homes we desperately need.
“Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future, including securing our housing foundations.
“The LNP has put solutions on the table to ease the Queensland Housing Crisis including prioritising infrastructure partnerships with local government to unlock more land for housing, unleashing the community housing sector and setting KPIs and delivering social housing projects on-time and on-budget.”
Shadow Housing Minister Tim Mander said Queenslanders struggling to find a home were paying the price for Labor’s chaos and crisis.
“The Queensland Housing Crisis just keeps getting worse under Labor,” Mr Mander said.
“They’ve constantly failed to meet their targets and now rents in Queensland are rising because Labor hasn’t delivered enough housing options.
“Labor care more about making announcements but they never actually deliver.“
Labor rips out community sport funding
Queensland families have experienced the biggest hikes in grassroots sports fees in the nation, following savage cuts by the third-term Labor Government to community organisations.
New Australian Bureau of Statistics inflation data shows in the 12 months to September 2023, the cost of playing sport in Queensland skyrocketed by 10% - the steepest increases of any state.
The rising costs come after Labor cut funding to some of Queensland’s most popular junior sports organisations including Queensland Little Athletics and Queensland Gymnastics.
The third-term Labor Government sneakily changed the name of the funding program that sporting organisations use, and in doing so, also reduced the base amount sporting bodies could access.
Shadow Sports Minister Tim Mander said families were paying the price for Labor Cuts, mismanagement and wasteful spending.
“In the run up to the Olympics we should be encouraging Queenslanders to play sports but Labor's cuts have seen these costs rise for families,” Mr Mander said.
“This is another alarming example of how Queenslanders are forking out more to pay for Labor’s failures.
“These shocking figures prove the budget pressures mums and dads across Queensland are experiencing while trying to pay fees for their child's soccer or cricket team.
“Our sporting clubs are part of the way of life in Queensland but Labor’s chaos and crisis has put them out of reach for many families.
“When a government allows budget blowouts and wasteful spending like Wellcamp or the stadium stuff-up, Queenslanders pay the price.
“Our grassroots sporting organisations are simply to trying to stay afloat in the face of increasing costs under Labor.
“These nation-high price rises are a direct result of Labor’s decision to slash funding to their budgets.
“Only the LNP has the right priorities to stop Queenslanders paying for Labor’s failures, including reducing waste rather than hitting Queenslanders with higher taxes and fees.
"Queensland families deserve better."
Labor’s chaos and crisis sees Queenslanders paying more to keep roofs over their heads
Labor’s decade of housing failures has resulted in Queensland renters experiencing the highest yearly price rise ever recorded in the State.
New data from the Residential Tenancies Authority shows Queenslanders’ median rental payments increased by a staggering 13.4% in the past 12 months.
The record rise means rents have now increased by 50% since Labor came to power in 2015.
Shadow Housing Minister Tim Mander said renters were paying the price for Labor’s failure to plan and release enough new land for our growing State.
“A decade of Labor housing failures has driven up the cost of living for Queenslanders to levels never seen before,” Mr Mander said.
“Despite all the flashy announcements, the cost of rent increased in 2023 by the highest amount recorded.”
“Queenslanders cannot trust any promise the third-term Labor Government makes on housing because no matter what they say, costs keep going up.”
“Instead of planning and releasing new land, they’ve been engulfed in their own chaos and crisis.”
“Only the LNP has a plan to work with Councils to release more land, putting downward pressure on rents and helping Queenslanders get into the housing market.”
New year, same old deteriorating education system under Labor
As students across Queensland return to school this week, I would like to take this opportunity to wish our students, parents, teachers and staff all the very best for 2024.
I would particularly like to wish our newest ‘Preppies’ and their families a wonderful start as they commence their school journey.
Whilst this is an exciting time for many, there is no doubt that our students and teachers are returning to an education system in Queensland that continues to deteriorate under the chaos and crisis of the State Labor Government.
At a time of crippling teacher workforce shortages, under Labor we are seeing more teachers and staff than ever before reporting that student behaviour is not being managed well at their school.
Since 2014, Queensland has gone from 1 in 10 teachers stating that student behaviour is not being well managed, to now 1 in 4.
This rapid decline, combined with the growing number of teachers who do not feel that their school is a safe place to work, has occurred all under the watch of the Labor State Government, and it is simply unacceptable.
There has also been significant increases in student disengagement. New figures recently released by the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) show that from 2022 to 2023, Queensland has dropped from second in the nation, to now fourth, behind Victoria, New South Wales, and the ACT, for student attendance in years 1-10, with Queensland also below the National Average.
The Labor State Government must prioritise growing Queensland’s state school attendance rates, and deliver a comprehensive strategy to keep students in school.
The Labor State Government must also outline how it intends to lift educational outcomes.
Last year not a single educational outcome target was achieved across reading, writing and numeracy, through years 3, 5, 7, and 9, according to the Department of Education’s latest Annual Report.
Queenslanders deserve a Government that is focused on the right priorities, ensuring that our students receive the best education possible, with our teachers and staff respected and safe in their workplace.
Like all Queenslanders, I believe it’s important to hold supermarkets accountable during the cost of living crisis.
If we are going to be fair dinkum about investigating the soaring cost-of-living pressures Queenslanders are facing, then the State Government’s Parliamentary Inquiry must also be expanded.
Today, I have called on the State Government to do just that.
I’ve asked them to broaden the terms of reference to include the things the State Government controls.
Queenslanders are facing the biggest pressures in the country when it comes to the big bills for household budgets.
Rising water bills due to depleting water security, rising power bills with major energy generators offline and deteriorating roads adding to freight costs all have an impact on cost of living pressures and prices.
If we are going to do everything we can to ease cost of living pressures for Queenslanders, the State Labor Government must not ignore our calls.
Shadow Minister for Energy and Cost of Living Deb Frecklington will have more to say on this in the days and weeks ahead.
“It just shows you how far Labor has fallen," Mr Powell said.
“Because they’re in chaos and crisis, they don’t care their historical heartland will not have their voices represented for the first quarter of the year.
“It’s disrespectful and arrogant.
“We will return to Parliament and the seat of Inala – the jewel in Labor’s decaying crown - will be empty.
“Why aren’t the people of Inala a priority for Labor anymore?”
QUEENSLAND HOUSING CRISIS
Pinkenba is the latest in Labor’s ever-lengthening list of housing stuff-ups.
The only thing Labor has ever delivered for Queenslanders who need a roof over their head is false hope.
More than 43,000 Queenslanders are desperately waiting for social housing, while Labor is consumed by its own chaos and crisis.
Labor’s laundry list of failed housing announcements include:
At a time when Queensland needs calm and stable leadership to ease the Queensland Housing Crisis, Labor is erratic, lurching from one failed announcement to the next.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future including securing our housing foundations.
The LNP has put solutions on the table to ease the Queensland Housing Crisis, including prioritising infrastructure partnerships with local government to unlock more land for housing, unleashing the community housing sector and setting KPIs and delivering social housing projects on-time and on-budget.
Queenslanders pay the price for Labor's failures
Queensland’s Cost of Living Crisis is getting worse under Labor.
The Labor Government is so engulfed in its own chaos and crisis, it has lost control of the costs it can control.
In 12 months, Queenslanders have experienced the biggest increases in the nation for rent, health costs, transport costs and private car costs.
It’s all well and good for Steven Miles to now try and hitch himself to a Canberra-campaign, but it’s his Labor Government’s failures to control the things they should control, that’s costing Queenslanders big-time.
Just look at Labor’s failures around the Callide power plant that’s driving up energy bills and its disgraceful failures that will further drive-up prices.
Until Queenslanders get a government focused on the right priorities and the things the State Government does control, cost-of-living will only get worse for Queenslanders.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future, including saving you paying for Labor’s failures.
Labor has catastrophically failed to deliver on its promises to Queensland to deliver domestic violence reform.
Stakeholders are now saying women would be alive today, if the changes outlined in landmark domestic violence reports had been implemented by Labor.
Labor is falling further and further behind in its own targets to deliver the landmark action they promised against domestic and family violence.
Promises and announcements have been aplenty, but delivering these changes have not been a priority for Labor.
Domestic violence has become another victim of Labor failing to deliver.
Not a single woman or child will be kept safer in Queensland by an announcement that isn’t delivered.
Under Labor, countless reports have been handed down, with over 500 recommendations. Many critical recommendations to save lives have been left gathering dust.
They include:
Promises haven't been delivered
Families in regional Queensland have been dealt another blow, after Labor failed to deliver on their maternity promises, six months after they were announced.
On 17 July 2022, the Health Minister announced a range of initiatives she claimed would help ease the Queensland Maternity Crisis, but Queenslanders are still waiting for them to be delivered.
These included training 20 GP Obstetricians in regional, rural and remote areas, to allow maternity services closed under Labor to be reopened.
But a Parliamentary Question on Notice by the Opposition has revealed the training still hasn’t begun, more than six months after the announcement was originally made by Shannon Fentiman.
The Opposition can also reveal there is no requirement for the doctors undertaking the training to work in communities currently on bypass (Weipa, Cooktown, Chinchilla or Biloela), or to even remain in Queensland after receiving their qualification.
Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates said the false hope pedalled by the Health Minister shows she cares more about announcements than healing the Maternity Crisis.
“This is another example of Labor and Shannon Fentiman failing to follow through on an announcement,” Ms Bates said.
“Announcements won’t fix the Queensland Maternity Crisis and won’t help families forced to travel across Queensland to give birth safely.
“Shannon Fentiman needs to explain when maternity services that have been closed or bypassed on Labor’s watch will finally reopen, including Biloela, Chinchilla, Cooktown and Weipa.
“Making false promises only leads to more anguish and anxiety in communities where women can’t birth.
“Labor created the Maternity Crisis after closing 37 maternity services across Queensland.
“Regional communities have been left in limbo because the Palaszczuk Government has failed to properly plan, resource and run Queensland Health.
“Shannon Fentiman must start being up front with Queenslanders and take action to heal the Queensland Maternity Crisis.
“Regional maternity services are a priority for the LNP, because it’s a priority for Queenslanders.
LABOR’S POWER FAIL
Queenslanders to pay more for power the longer Callide is offline
Labor has again missed their deadline to restore the critical Callide C power plant.
This is the seventh time Labor has broken their promise to restore the critical power plant.
This is a huge cost of living blow to Queenslanders.
It will drive up power prices for Queenslanders. Again.
With another deadline missed, Queenslanders need to know what is happening with Callide C and when will it finally be restored.
Labor categorically cannot be trusted, they have left a field of broken promises and energy failures.
Labor promised 150 occasions power prices would go down under Labor, and they haven’t.
They repeatedly promised power prices wouldn’t rise because of the Callide outage, but they have.
All Labor has delivered is chaos and crisis.
Queenslanders know the longer they wait for Labor to fix Callide, the more they pay for power.
Both the Auditor-General and the Queensland Competition Authority has exposed this is directly responsible for sending Queensland power prices skyrocketing.
In fact, average household electricity bills in Queensland increased by 23.6%, the highest in the country.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future, including saving you from paying for Labor’s failures.
Labor’s missed-deadlines to restore Callide C include:
In the middle of a cost of living crisis, thousands of Queenslanders received a bill from Labor that they didn’t have to pay.
Just like Cameron Dick blamed others when there was a massive privacy breach with SPER data, others are being blamed for this stuff up.
Queenslanders just want to know the government is doing everything in its power to get bills down, not drive them up and send them more.
In the middle of a cost of living crisis, Queenslanders’ anxiety goes up with every bill in the mailbox.
This State Labor Government is so deep in chaos and crisis they’ve now added to that anxiety.
The longer Labor is in power, the worse Queensland’s Cost of Living Crisis gets.
Queenslanders left waiting for more than 2 years for the Brady Report into the Callide C power plants catastrophe.
It’s been 955 days since Queensland was hurled into darkness when the Callide Power Station exploded. Queenslanders still don’t know why this happened.
Following the blackout incident in May 2021 the average household electricity bill in Queensland rose by a staggering 23.6% over the two years following the explosion, the highest increase nationwide.
Weeks after the incident that left over 477,000 Queenslanders without power, Energy Minister Mick de Brenni called on forensic engineer Dr Sean Brady to investigate the blackout at Callide C, yet more than two and a half years on the expert review of the incident has still not been delivered.
Both the Auditor-General and the Queensland Competition Authority have highlighted the Labor Government’s failings, indicating that the Callide power plants' condition directly correlates to increased electricity costs.
The Auditor-General has exposed that “a lack of supply, from unplanned maintenance in power plants like Callide, is a primary factor in driving up electricity prices”.
Minister de Brenni owes Queenslanders an explanation for the prolonged delay in releasing the report. What is he trying to hide?
The chaos and crisis of this Government is driving up costs for families.
An LNP Government will keep our power plants properly maintained to minimise unexpected repairs and increase reliability.
Every day that passes without the release of the Brady report prolongs uncertainty for Queenslanders.
Minister de Brenni must act swiftly to ensure the report's release.
Understanding the findings is crucial to prevent a recurrence of similar incidents and to address the escalating energy expenses faced by Queensland families.
Further delaying the release of this report shows the Labor Government is more interested in covering up its own crisis and chaos than driving down electricity prices for Queenslanders.
Minister de Brenni's reassurances have not translated into relief for Queenslanders' energy expenses. It's time for concrete action to alleviate the burden on families.
Queenslanders deserve better than the chaos and Crisis they’re getting from this Labor Government.
Queensland’s social housing waitlist has escalated again despite multi-billion dollar promises and repeated claims by the third-term Labor Government that more people are getting into homes.
In a devastating blow for vulnerable Queenslanders, new State Government data has revealed the social housing waitlist continued to climb during 2023.
The new statistics show 43,047 Queenslanders are on the September 2023 waitlist, up from 41,484 in June.
Shadow Minister for Housing Tim Mander said the housing crisis was getting worse and the third-term Labor Government must adopt the LNP’s plans.
“More vulnerable Queenslanders are caught in Labor’s housing logjam because of nine years of poor planning," Mr Mander said.
“The third-term Labor Government promised a $2 billion Housing Investment Fund two and a half years ago, but it hasn’t built a single home and not one project has been approved in regional Queensland.
“Never before has there been a more difficult time to find, secure or keep a roof over your head in Queensland, than now under Labor.
“Queenslanders are fighting against the lowest rental vacancies on record and the biggest rental rises in the nation, the situation is dire and getting worse.
“Only the LNP has the right priorities for Queensland’s future.
“The Queensland Housing Crisis has not happened overnight. Queenslanders have watched Labor fail to plan and deliver and now we are living the results.
“Our priorities include improving housing affordability with more land supply and developing timely plans to identify what infrastructure and services are needed to accommodate our population.
“It’s clear amid the chaos and crisis of this third-term Labor Government, they’re more focused on big announcements rather than the follow-through.”
Queensland endures worst year on record
Crims run rings around Labor’s weak laws
Shocking new figures released by the Queensland Police Service have revealed Queensland’s Crime Crisis has careered further out of control in 2023 due to Labor’s weak laws and falling police numbers.
The data reported 20,211 cars were stolen last year, up from 19,262 in 2022.
It is the first time Queensland has surpassed 20,000 stolen cars in one calendar year.
The numbers show a staggering rise of 116% since Labor first came to office and watered down the laws in 2015, when 9359 cars were stolen across Queensland that year.
Labor has rolled out multiple ‘crime plans’ during this term of Government, but Leader of the Opposition David Crisafulli said despite all the promises and rhetoric, these new statistics prove crime gets worse under Labor.
“Labor has rolled out different laws, recycled plans and different faces, but this is the categoric proof the crime crisis has got worse under their watch,” Mr Crisafulli said.
Shadow Police Minister Dan Purdie said the Police Minister promised Queenslanders more police and the toughest laws in the country, but delivered neither.
“It’s clear the State Labor Government has failed to keep Queensland communities safe,” Mr Purdie said.
“Mark Ryan has failed to acknowledge there is a crime crisis and refused to listen to Queenslanders.
“Weaker laws and fewer police, is it any wonder Queensland is in the middle of a youth crime crisis?
“The chaos and crisis that has engulfed the State Labor Government has made Queenslanders less safe.”
Shadow Minister for Youth Justice and Victim Support Laura Gerber said communities are sick of living in fear.
“Premier Steven Miles admitted Labor’s youth crime policy cupboard is bare,” Ms Gerber said
“These shocking new figures prove they were the only true words spoken by the State Government over 12 months ago.
“These figures reveal the full extent of the Queensland crime crisis and how the State Labor Government has failed to get tough on crime.
“Queenslanders can no longer trust the State Labor Government to fix the Youth Crime Crisis it created.”
This is perhaps the greatest public infrastructure fail in Australian history and it rests soley at the feet of Labor.
Nearly two decades on from building Paradise Dam, Labor has now spent half a decade ducking and weaving on the dam’s condition.
Labor’s Dam Disgrace is beyond comprehension and beyond any level of incompetence seen in this state.
Labor's chaos and crisis knows no bounds and will cost Queenslanders dearly.
This is a damning indictment on Labor's ability to deliver and maintain essential infrastructure in Queensland.
When Paradise Dam is demolished, Labor's credibility to ensure water security for Bundaberg, local farmers and this state will also crumble.
Labor has lied to Queenslanders for the last four years about Paradise Dam.
Serious questions need to be asked about the safety of downstream residents in Bundaberg.
Labor has consistently pulled the wool over the eyes of Queenslanders on this issue and been exposed for the fraudsters they are.
Instead of prioritising Queenslanders, Labor was focused on protecting their own political skin.
The money wasted by Labor is unfathomable for Queenslanders doing it tough, and farmers crying out for the water security they need in one of our state's most critical food bowls.
The lack of water security for this nationally critical industry has pushed up the prices of fresh fruit and vegetables at the supermarket.
The questions Labor must now answer about their Paradise Dam disgrace are endless.
But one thing Queenslanders know for certain is, you cannot trust anything Labor says.
And you cannot trust them to deliver the infrastructure our growing state needs.
