The Palaszczuk Labor has taken a baseball bat to Outback Queensland slashing more than 500 full-time public service jobs across a vast region that’s been on its knees from five years of crippling drought.
The Palaszczuk Government’s own figures show 507.83 full-time equivalent public servant jobs were cut in the December 2016 quarter.
Rubbing salt into the wound, the Government hired a swag more spin doctors in head office to bolster its program of organised lying.
LNP Deputy Leader Deb Frecklington said the cuts proved the absolute heartlessness of Annastacia Palaszczuk and her city-centric team of doozy apparatchiks and Labor union hacks.
“This is a region that’s been in the grip of drought for five years, suffers the highest overall rate of employment in the state of 11.4 per cent and a staggering youth unemployment rate of 41 per cent,” Ms Frecklington said.
“The Premier continually states she is focused on jobs. But the truth is the only jobs that matter are hers and those of her heartless union mates.”
Gregory MP Lachlan Millar said communities like Weipa, Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Richmond, Hughenden, Longreach, Barcaldine, Charleville, Blackall and Bedourie and Quilpie are being guttered by Palaszczuk Labor.
“To cut overall public service jobs in the Outback by eight per cent in the last quarter is disgraceful and proves that Palaszczuk Labor is no friend of anyone who lives away from the coast,” Mr Millar said.
Warrego MP Ann Leahy said unlike Labor, the LNP was focussed on building a better Queensland with a common sense plan to create jobs across Queensland and better manage the state’s finances.
“The LNP believes every Queensland, irrespective of where they live deserves a fair go and access to decent government services,” Ms Leahy said.
“The LNP is committed to building stronger families, stronger communities, building the roads and dams we need to increase agricultural production.”
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