Unprecedented industrial action by the Queensland Teacher’s Union is a damning vote of no confidence in the Palaszczuk-Miles Labor Government.
It’s little wonder teachers have resorted to industrial action after nearly a decade of Labor failures in our education system.
Labor’s education report card includes a failure to develop a workforce plan for the teachers Queensland needs, chronic under-resourcing and rising violence in schools.
Education is now so out of control under Labor, teachers are leaving in droves and schools are battling critical teacher shortages.
Our hardworking teachers deserve to be valued and deserve to be listened to.
Labor’s failure to deliver the teachers they promised Queenslanders at the 2020 election and failure to listen, means our teachers have had to resort to industrial action just to be heard.
Queensland students and teachers are paying a high price for Labor’s chaos and crisis.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future, including boosting student-to-teacher ratios in schools and cracking-down on violence.
Steven Miles and Labor have voted to keep the cost of chartering two private luxury jets secret from Queenslanders.
In an extraordinary move in Parliament overnight, the Palaszczuk-Miles Government blocked the LNP's bid to reveal how much Queensland taxpayers have been charged.
Last week the Premier and his Police Minister chartered two private jets to fly to the same locations at the same times to make political announcements across the State.
They made their dual-jet journeys in the middle of a cost of living crisis.
Last night's decision to hide the cost of the Premier's double luxury planes is further evidence Labor is out of touch and isn’t listening to the pressures Queenslanders are facing.
It’s more proof Steven Miles can’t be trusted and isn’t up to it.
It’s another example of Labor’s chaos and crisis and wrong priorities.
While Steven Miles and his Ministers are living the high life, Queenslanders are struggling to pay their bills that are soaring under his Government's watch.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future, including saving you paying for Labor’s failures.
Claytons change fails to remove Detention as a Last Resort from Youth Justice Act
The LNP has been fighting to remove detention as a last resort from the Youth Justice Act.
After hearing Premier Miles this morning, we believed we’d secured a major win for Queenslanders.
Sadly, that is not the case.
Today Labor has been exposed for just rewording, not removing, the principle of detention as a last resort from the Youth Justice Act.
Labor’s official Statement of Compatibility confirms the effect of the Bill is not changed by a clumsy attempt to reword detention as a last resort:
“The proposed amendments to s52A(1) of the Youth Justice Act 1992 (YJ Act), and to principle 18 in schedule 1 of the YJ Act, are clarifying provisions and are not intended to change the law.”
It can’t be much clearer than that - “not intended to change the law”.
The Premier has misled Queenslanders. The Premier has misled victims.
Labor has been exposed as saying and doing anything to get elected.
This is a hollow and desperate act, from a Premier attempting a political fix not a genuine fix for the broken Youth Justice Act.
This is all about how the Premier is perceived, six-months out from an election.
Queenslanders want to be safe in their communities, but today, nothing has changed under Labor’s reworded “clarification”.
Under Labor’s detention as a last resort, youth offenders will still only be detained after every other option has been exhausted and magistrates are not free to impose a sentence to match the crime.
The only things clarified today are that Steven Miles isn’t up to the job, he doesn’t take crime seriously and he is willing to deceive victims for his own political gain.
To claim you’re doing something, only to be exposed by the detail as actually not doing it, is a window into Labor’s chaos and crisis.
This is a shocking insult to victims of crime, including those who marched on Parliament yesterday demanding genuine change.
Just weeks ago, Steven Miles said removing detention as a last resort would be “dangerous”, and today his position remains unchanged.
Steven Miles would rather con victims and Queenslanders than get serious on crime.
The only way to change Labor’s detention as a last resort is to change the Government.
Only the LNP will making our community safer, with the Making Queensland Safer Laws.
Labor fails to remove detention as a last resort, despite calls from crime victims
Today, Labor has dismissed desperate pleas from Queensland victims of crime to remove “detention as a last resort” from the State’s youth crime laws.
Labor’s latest 11-point-plan is more of the same youth crime chaos and crisis.
While Queenslanders are marching on Parliament to demand action, Premier Miles is refusing to listen.
Only the LNP is listening to Queenslanders and will remove detention as a last resort to make our community safer.
After a ten-point-plan, a five-point-plan a four-point-plan and three-point-plan, Labor still has no plan to remove “detention as a last resort”.
Despite Miles’ jet-setting whistle-stops he has closed his ears to what Queensland victims of crime want.
Queenslanders want detention as a last resort to be removed from our youth crime laws.
Queenslanders don’t want more Labor chaos and crisis.
Queenslanders don’t want Labor's multi-point-plans they want real action.
The LNP will roll-out the Making Queensland Safer Laws and remove detention as a last resort by the end of the year.
LNP promises to restore bi-annual release of teacher, police and nurse numbers
The LNP has today announced it will reverse Labor’s dodgy decision to hide information about Queensland’s public service, if elected in October.
The LNP has committed to releasing public sector workforce data every six months, to provide Queenslanders with transparency into frontline services and programs, with police, teachers and nurse numbers.
The commitment follows shocking revelations the Palaszczuk-Miles Government has stopped the release of the bi-annual Public Workforce Report, hiding the truth about frontline workers during the health, housing, crime and cost of living crises.
The Public Sector Workforce Report has historically provided six-month updates on numbers of frontline government workers and is a Government report card for election promises, including for more police and teachers.
Now, in the shadows of an election when it’s clear Labor won’t deliver on their promises for teachers and police, they’ve suddenly ripped transparency away from Queenslanders.
LNP Leader David Crisafulli said he was committed to openness and transparency, which drove accountability for governments.
“The LNP is committed to transparency and integrity in Government and will restore the release of critical workforce reports twice a year,” Mr Crisafulli.
“We will reverse Labor’s dodgy decision, because Queenslanders deserve to know what’s happening with frontline workers across the Government.
“In doing so we will provide the transparency needed to ensure staff numbers are keeping pace with a growing population, not going backwards as we’ve seen under this Government.
“The LNP will also appoint a Minister for Open Data and a Minister for Integrity in Government if elected in October, because Queenslanders deserve full transparency from their government.”
Shadow Minister for Integrity in Government Fiona Simpson said Labor’s decision to hide workforce numbers was nothing more than a Government trying to hide its own chaos and crisis from Queenslanders.
“Not only do Queenslanders think Labor’s justification for this decision is utterly ridiculous, it’s also a deceitful attempt to hide the truth that under Labor frontline workers like police, teachers and health workers are leaving in droves,” Ms Simpson said.
“Labor is trying to hide the truth from Queenslanders yet again in an election year. It’s deplorable.
“Queenslanders will not allow the Palaszczuk-Miles Labor Government to trash integrity just because there is an election in the air. Restoring integrity to Government is a priority for the LNP and that includes releasing these reports twice a year.”
Wellcamp white elephant a window into Labor’s wrong priorities.
One year ago today, Steven Miles handed back the keys on Wellcamp, the biggest white elephant in Queensland’s history.
Steven Miles was personally responsible for wasting $223 million on a facility that was barely used and wasn’t even owned by Queenslanders, only to hand the keys back.
Now, the man who was the architect of this multi-million-dollar failure is now controlling the purse strings for the State, as Premier.
What’s worse, Steven Miles said he had “no regrets” about the massive waste.
It's this cavalier attitude which led to the Premier thinking it was fine to fly two luxury jets around the State last week.
In the middle of a cost of living crisis, Queenslanders care about waste, they care about every dollar.
The Premier’s arrogance on Wellcamp speaks volumes.
He can’t be trusted.
He isn’t up to the job.
He thinks there was nothing wrong with wasting millions of dollars on Wellcamp, while Queenslanders are struggling to make ends meet.
It’s more proof of Labor’s constant state of chaos and crisis, and wrong priorities.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s future, including saving you paying for Labor’s failures.
The LNP’s priority is reducing Labor’s waste rather than hitting Queenslanders with higher taxes and fees.
Detention as a last resort must be removed from Youth Justice Act
For nearly a decade, Queenslanders have been subject to a growing Youth Crime Crisis, created by Labor’s weak laws and fewer police.
Queenslanders have called for change, but Labor has refused to listen.
Queenslanders have marched in the streets, Labor has walked away from action.
Labor has denied the Youth Crime Crisis even exists and refuses to take responsibility to creating it.
The Premier has said he won’t make changes to the Youth Justice Act.
Yet now, in the shadows of an election, it’s clear Labor believes Queenslanders will forget the last nine years and trust them.
In their chaos and crisis, Labor thinks they can announce their way out of the Youth Crime Crisis.
After refusing to act when Queenslanders’ lives were on the line, any announcement now is about Labor’s political survival, not than the survival of Queenslanders.
Queenslanders can’t trust anything Labor says on crime, they just don’t take it seriously.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities, including making our community safer.
That’s why the LNP will roll-out the Making Queensland Safer Laws as the first priority, if elected in October.
The LNP will remove detention as a last resort to repair our broken Youth Justice System.
The LNP will put victims’ rights front and centre of youth justice and deliver gold standard early intervention to turn young lives around.
The Palaszczuk-Miles Government has failed to listen to Queenslanders and failed to listen to teachers.
Labor’s inexcusable failure to develop and implement a comprehensive education workforce plan means that many of our hardworking teaching staff face unsustainable workloads.
It’s no wonder teachers are frustrated and leaving in droves.
Not only has Labor failed to deliver the teachers they promised Queenslanders at the 2020 election, they have no credible plan to deliver the teachers we need for our growing population.
Escalating violence in our schools has also left teachers and students unsafe.
Teachers expect to be safe, resourced and supported by Government.
Unfortunately, that isn’t happening under the Palaszczuk-Miles Government.
Education is in chaos and crisis under Labor.
It is little wonder why we are heading towards targeted industrial action, with the QTU’s consideration of workforce bans.
Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s future, including boosting student-to-teacher ratios in schools and cracking-down on violence
Prices rise in Queensland, while they fall in other states
A new report from the Australian Energy Market Operator has sounded alarm bells for Queenslanders.
The new report found in the first quarter of this year, Queensland’s wholesale energy prices have skyrocketed, while across the rest of the country energy prices fell.
The report found in the first three months of 2024:
• Queensland wholesale energy prices cost an average of $118 per megawatt hour – a massive 75% rise
• The rest of the country paid on average $76 per megawatt hour – a decrease of 8%
It means Queenslanders' power bills are soaring far above what the rest of the country is paying.
The report is a damning indictment of the Palaszczuk-Miles Labor Government’s handling of the Callide power station fiasco.
The major Callide power station has now been offline for 1065 days and Labor has failed to return it to service which has pushed energy prices up in Queensland.
Shadow Minister for Energy and the Cost of Living Deb Frecklington said Queenslanders were paying a very high price for Labor’s failures.
“Last year under Labor, Queenslanders suffered a 20% increase in power bills, the worst in the nation and triple the national average,” Ms Frecklington said.
“Alarmingly this report shows there is a lot more pain to come for Queenslanders.
“Queensland is the only state that’s had a major power station offline for more than a thousand days.
“It's clear Labor’s failures to maintain our power assets has resulted in Queenslanders paying more for their power bills.
“The LNP has committed to providing maintenance guarantees on our power stations to ensure Queenslanders have affordable, reliable and sustainable electricity.
“Labor’s chaos and crisis is costing Queenslanders in a cost of living crisis.
“This power price surge has not happened by accident.
“It is the result of Labor’s systemic failures to manage our electricity network.
“Only the LNP has the Right Priorities for Queensland’s Future, including saving you paying for Labor’s failures.”
