March 11th, 2010
Category: LNP Media Releases
SCHOOLCHILDREN in Mackay continue to be placed at serious risk by sloppy asbestos removal practices, the LNP said today.
Shadow Minister for Public Works and Information and Communication Technology Jann Stuckey said Minister Schwarten, despite his protestations, had ignored LNP warnings that asbestos removal procedures at Mackay schools did not comply with QBuild procedures.
“Despite assuring Parliament that QBuild was complying with its own rules for asbestos removal in Mackay, students from two more Mackay schools had to be evacuated when it was discovered that asbestos had been disturbed in 19 classrooms,” said Ms Stuckey.
“The minister assured Parliament that a monitoring process was in place to ensure appropriate practices were followed,” she said. Read More…
March 11th, 2010
Category: LNP Media Releases
A 70-year-old man has been forced to wait seven months for brain surgery despite having a potentially life threatening aneurysm.
LNP Shadow Minister for Health Mark McArdle raised Forest Lake resident Hans Hagen’s long wait in Parliament today, after the Health Minister failed to respond to Mr Hagen’s correspondence.
Mr McArdle said the delays and bureaucratic hurdles Mr Hagen had faced were an indictment on the Queensland’s health system.
“Category one patients are the most urgent cases — Queensland Health’s own guidelines state the patient should be admitted for treatment in 30 days — but 267 days after Mr Hagen’s aneurysm was first diagnosed he still is waiting to get into the operating theatre,” he said. Read More…
March 11th, 2010
Category: LNP Media Releases
Queensland Ambulance Service’s analogue radio system was way past its use-by-date with paramedics forced to use their own mobiles in hundreds of black-spots across the State – especially Brisbane and the south-east.
LNP emergency services spokesman Ted Malone said the Bligh Government had blown $80 million on a non-functioning new comms centre, but had sat on its hands and done nothing to upgrade the ambulance radio network.
“It’s so out of date it’s a joke, and the Minister refuses to even acknowledge there’s a problem,” Mr Malone said.
“There are hundreds of black spots right across the State and not just in the regions. Read More…
March 11th, 2010
Category: LNP Media Releases
Queensland ratepayers were feeling real hip-pocket pain from Premier Anna Bligh’s forced council amalgamations, the State Opposition said today.
LNP Deputy-Leader Lawrence Springborg said Bligh Labor’s forced amalgamations promised big savings and cost-efficiencies – but in reality were delivering pain in the form of 20 per cent rate hikes.
“Anna Bligh’s promise of council efficiencies is lying in tatters,” Mr Springborg told State parliament this morning.
“The whole, politically-driven amalgamations program has been a costly disaster …and it’s being left to ratepayers to pick up the bill. Read More…
