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Shadow Treasurer Tim Nicholls said the Bligh government is back in the financial markets borrowing up big.
Mr Nicholls said the government is trying to raise $22 billion in the global bond markets.
Queensland patients are dying while waiting for emergency treatment because Labor cannot manage overcrowding and understaffing, the State Opposition said today.
Shadow Minister for Health Mark McArdle said Bligh Government claims 'the average waiting time for all cases presented to Queensland Health emergency departments was less than an hour' has been exposed as another Labor lie.
LNP Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Food and Regional Queensland, Andrew Cripps will visit the Ag-Grow field days in Emerald today.
Mr Cripps will aim to meet as many visitors and exhibitors as possible to hear firsthand the issues affecting Central Queensland farmers.
State Shadow Minister for the Building Industry Ros Bates said today that Queenslanders are entitled to be angry with the Bligh Government over its failed promise to provide 'easier resolution' for homeowners involved in costly and drawn-out building disputes.
Ms Bates said media reports that homeowners are being ripped off by shonky builders – and left in the lurch by the industry watchdog , is further proof that the Government's new system has failed homeowners.
Queensland's legal aid costs have blown out 37 per cent - but more services are being slashed, the State Opposition said today.
LNP Shadow Attorney General Jarrod Bleijie said Labor's mismanagement of Legal Aid will see people miss out on crucial legal support.
This year's National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) theme is Change: The next Step is Ours.
The LNP recognises the importance of change and that NAIDOC week is a very significant week on the indigenous calendar.
As major Australian states unite against the Green/ALP carbon tax the Bligh government admits that it still hasn't a clue about how it will impact on Queensland.
The startling admission was made yesterday (ABC Radio Brisbane – Party Games) by Treasurer Andrew Fraser, who said that treasury had done no economic modelling on how the great big new tax will hurt Queensland families and industry.
Federal Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig's repeated refusal to give any commitment about when the live cattle trade to Indonesia will resume shows Labor has no plans for live exports, LNP Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Food and Regional Queensland, Andrew Cripps said today.
"More than 300 cattle producers came to Mount Isa from all over the country seeking answers yesterday, but Mr Ludwig just gave politically sanitised answers leaving them with the impression he had no real plan or ideas that will get the industry back on track," Mr Cripps said.
LNP Leader Campbell Newman, at the 55th Federal Council of the Liberal Party of Australia, speaking on a policy motion about the live export of cattle.
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The Bligh Labor Government is starting to smell like an old bucket of bait over their on-again, off-again, snapper fishing bans, the State Opposition said today.
LNP Shadow Fisheries Minister Mark Robinson said Labor initially imposed bans, but had since decided to back off following former Environment Minister Kate Jones' resignation.