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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
March 11th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Bligh State Labor last night said ‘NO’ to science-based decisions for Tableland irrigators.
In State parliament, Bligh Government Members voted down LNP’ amendments to the Barron water resource plan to allow sustainable use of sub-artesian water in Area B.
LNP Member for Dalrymple Shane Knuth told parliament Tableland irrigators had had enough of the Bligh government and [...]
March 11th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
SCHOOL children and teachers have been exposed to potentially lethal asbestos fibres while sitting in their classrooms, the LNP said today.
Shadow Minister for Education & Training Dr Bruce Flegg said it was an extraordinary revelation by Education Minister Geoff Wilson that he had been aware students and teachers in at least three Mackay schools had [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
GRANDPARENTS providing full-time care to grandchildren should be supported by all levels of government, institutions and organisations, the LNP said today.
Shadow Minister for Community Services & Housing and Shadow Minister for Women Rosemary Menkens, who introduced a private members bill to recognise grandparents providing care, said the situation in which grandparents were becoming primary carers [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
State Labor will hand over billions of dollars of Queenslander’s GST money to Kevin Rudd but can’t guarantee that no doctors, nurses or allied health professionals will lose their jobs.
LNP health spokesman Mark McArdle said that questioning in parliament today revealed that State Labor was all too willing to hand over billions in GST money [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Laws to introduce alcohol interlocks for repeat drink drivers could be passed tonight if the Bligh Labor Government was serious about saving lives.
LNP Shadow Transport Minister Fiona Simpson said Labor should stop playing politics and pass the LNP’s Alcohol Interlock Bill.
“Labor has been promising to introduce these devices since 2002 — eight years later they [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
The LNP has called on Primary Industries Minister Tim Mulherin to stop mucking around and come clean on his plans for the future of Queensland’s Ag Colleges.
LNP primary industries spokesman Ray Hopper said all of regional Queensland and communities associated with the Ag Colleges were sick of the long wait to find out from the [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
The Bligh Labor Government was warned almost a year ago that its solar hot water scheme was “ill conceived” and could cost jobs, the State Opposition revealed today.
In State Parliament today, LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek tabled an email a solar hot water supplier sent to the Fair Trading Minister Peter Lawlor on 10 April 2009 [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Labor’s obsession with bureaucracy caused further damage to important wetland areas and delayed the clean up of the Pacific Adventurer oil spill, the LNP said today.
Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability Glen Elmes said the Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s report on the oil spill showed that too much paperwork and the bureaucratic nature of [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
DEVICES used to record bullying against schoolchildren would be immediately confiscated under legislation proposed by the LNP.
Shadow Minister for Education and Training Dr Bruce Flegg said the practice of recording and distributing images of violence against children had become all too common in Queensland schools.
“Cyber bullying in schools is a growing problem but Bligh and [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Hendrikus Joseph Ruhland’s release from jail yesterday despite being a high risk to prey on boys for the rest of his life underlined Bligh Labor’s pathetic approach to dangerous sex offenders.
LNP police and corrective services spokesman Vaughan Johnson said the attempt by Police Minister Neil Roberts to blame the courts was pathetic.
“Expert psychiatric evidence says [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
QUEENLSLAND’S most dangerous mental health inmates remain in an unlocked facility after crucial security equipment failed at The Park Mental Facility on Tuesday night.
Shadow Minister for Health Mark McArdle said electronic door locks at the mental health centre failed last night forcing staff to jam doors open so they could enter and leave the facility.
“Yet [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
The Bligh Government needed to provide all assistance with fodder drops for livestock in flood-hit western areas, the State Opposition said today.
LNP primary industries spokesman Ray Hopper said widespread flooding was leaving sheep and cattle stranded on higher ‘islands’ with little or no feed.
“A lot of stock would be suffering … and the need for [...]
March 10th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Despite a total lack of detail in Kevin Rudd’s Health and Hospital reforms, Anna Bligh and State Labor have rolled over and swallowed the dubious prescription.
LNP health spokesman Mark McArdle told State parliament* there were many unanswered questions and a total lack of detail in Kevin Rudd’s plan.
“State Labor for 12 years has delivered [...]
March 9th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Government forestry workers and their families have missed out on the same ‘relocation guarantee’ given to QR workers under Bligh Labor’s asset sales.
LNP primary industries spokesman Ray Hopper said forestry workers were clearly not equal to rail workers under Bligh Labor.
“QR workers got an iron-clad guarantee from Labor there’d be no forced relocations when QR [...]
March 9th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Wivenhoe Dam’s true capacity was double that being reported and better management of the storage was needed to limit further waste of taxpayers’ money on grids and desalination, the State Opposition said today.
LNP water spokesman Jeff Seeney said reports that Wivenhoe was over 90 per cent full were misleading because at ‘100 per cent capacity’ [...]
March 9th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Queenslanders on the waiting list for public housing are missing out while the Minister for Housing wastes money on expensive, unsuitable land, the LNP said today.
Shadow Minister for Community Services and Housing Rosemary Menkens said the procurement of land at Palm Cove for 18 two bedroom units was another example of the Bligh Labor Government’s [...]
March 9th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
WORKS Minister Robert Schwarten continues to turn a blind eye to unqualified workers being contracted to remove asbestos, the LNP said today.
Shadow Minister for Public Works and Information and Communication Technology Jann Stuckey said Minister Schwarten had become the Peter Garrett of Queensland politics by ignoring warnings that unsafe asbestos removal practices were being used.
“Despite [...]
March 9th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases
The Bligh Labor Government’s spectacular back down on new land valuation laws is welcome but wouldn’t have been necessary if they had listened to the LNP’s suggestions and also consulted with industry properly in the first place.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the LNP had voiced its opposition to the laws as they [...]
March 9th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases
Leader of the Opposition, LNP Leader and Shadow Minister for the Arts John-Paul Langbroek has congratulated a group of young performers for taking the plunge and setting up their own theatre company.
Mr Langbroek attended That Production Company’s 2010 season gala launch on Monday night and said the group showed great initiative and promise.
“As an enthusiastic [...]
March 9th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Yet another Labor green scheme has collapsed with the Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy finally admitting Labor can’t manage the Solar Hot Water program.
LNP spokesman for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy Jeff Seeney said hundreds of Queenslanders’ jobs were at risk and home owners had been left in the lurch.
“Once again the Bligh [...]
March 8th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
MORE than one third of all hospital emergency department patients are waiting more than eight hours before getting access to the bed they need, the LNP said today.
Shadow Minister for Health Mark McArdle said the first emergency department performance report for 2010 shows that emergency departments began the year even more crowded and dysfunctional than [...]
March 8th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
International Women’s Day is the perfect time for Queensland women to think about their sisters overseas, Shadow Minister for Women Rosemary Menkens said today.
March 7th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
DISASTERS like the devastating floods afflicting southwest Queensland demonstrated the strength and compassion of rural communities, Member for Warrego Howard Hobbs said today.
Mr Hobbs said as he moved about the electorate and spoke to those affected, the overwhelming emotion was concern for the plight of others.
“The first question most people whose homes and lives have [...]
March 6th, 2010, Category: LNP Media Releases
Andrew Fraser seems intent on closing down Queensland with the Treasurer putting a $17.5 billion black hole in the state budget in one week.
LNP Shadow Treasurer Tim Nicholls said the man holding Queensland’s purse strings appeared to have no interest in the state’s economic future.
“For the Treasurer to tell guests at a business function that [...]
March 3rd, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
Transferring responsibility for health from State Labor to Federal Labor won’t fix the problems plaguing our hospitals, the State Opposition said today.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said while the LNP would study today’s announcement in detail, it was clear the Prime Minister had no faith in the Bligh Labor Government’s ability to manage [...]
March 3rd, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
FLOOD ravaged communities in western Queensland urgently need assistance to prepare for further inundation, the LNP said today.
Leader of the Opposition John-Paul Langbroek said more severe flooding was expected in some affected communities.
“We are closely monitoring what is happening in communities like Roma, Charleville and St George, which desperately need assistance to clean up what [...]
March 2nd, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
ISOLATED communities experiencing record flood levels and facing further heavy rainfall need urgent assistance, the LNP said today.
Leader of the Opposition John-Paul Langbroek said reports from electorate staff in Roma paint a frightening picture of communities in crisis.
“Flooding in Roma has already exceeded the historic highest level and waters are still rising,” Mr Langbroek said.
“The [...]
March 2nd, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Uncategorized
The Bligh Labor Government is throwing in the towel and giving up control of Queensland’s multi-billion dollar mining royalties before the Henry Tax Review has even been released, the State Opposition said today.
Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Premier Anna Bligh and Treasurer Andrew Fraser had previously voiced opposition to a Federal takeover of [...]
March 1st, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
Anna Bligh’s talk about wanting to “be a part of” the Cairns performing arts centre proposal is hollow talk while Far North Queenslanders continue to miss out on leading arts performances due to inadequate facilities.
LNP Leader and Shadow Arts Minister John-Paul Langbroek said reports that companies could not tour in Cairns because of a lack [...]
February 24th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
Thugs who seriously assault police or emergency services workers will face a minimum of three months jail under laws introduced into State Parliament by the LNP today.
Deputy LNP Leader and Shadow Attorney General Lawrence Springborg said an overhaul of sentencing laws was needed to provide a strong deterrent to criminals who attacked police and emergency [...]
February 24th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
The Bligh Labor Government has confirmed it drafted a proposal to introduce a congestion tax in the Brisbane CBD.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Queenslanders could not trust the Minister for Transport when she said the congestion tax was not in the government’s plan.
“This is the same Minister who said ‘Queensland Rail is [...]
February 24th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
Premier Anna Bligh was scared of facing the Labor rank and file members amidst unprecedented anger over her privatisation plans, the State Opposition said today.
In a unique motion to State Parliament, the LNP urged the Premier to oppose any move to cancel or postpone the annual state conference of the Queensland Labor Party.
Deputy Opposition Leader [...]
February 24th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
Premier Anna Bligh was today challenged to report on what had become of Labor’s Youth Violence Task Force and its 16 recommendations from 2007 to tackle youth violence.
LNP leader John-Paul Langbroek said escalating youth and school violence* should be addressed in a bipartisan way and not by grand-standing and re-announcing a taskforce to look into [...]
February 23rd, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
The preamble to the Queensland Constitution introduced by the Bligh Labor Government is a ‘divisive diversion’ that has little public support, the State Opposition said today.
Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the LNP opposed the laws to introduce the preamble to the Constitution.
“The LNP believes there is too little or no public support for [...]
February 23rd, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
Queenslanders’ jobs and ‘mum and dad’ investors’ financial security will be put at risk by the Bligh Labor Government’s proposed changes to land valuation laws, the LNP said today.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Shadow Cabinet had resolved to oppose the new laws, which were expected to be rushed through State Parliament this week.
“These laws are [...]
February 21st, 2010, Category: Initiatives, JP's Media Releases
Labor’s reference to detention as a last resort has stopped sentencing from acting as an effective deterrent and is failing to deliver sentences that meet the community’s standards.
February 21st, 2010, Category: Initiatives, JP's Media Releases
Overcrowded EDs, with long waiting periods to access beds, represent the most avoidable cause of harm in hospitals. The core problem is that much of the workload in EDs is directed at caring for sick persons who are waiting long periods to be allocated a bed.
February 21st, 2010, Category: Initiatives, JP's Media Releases
The LNP is committed to bringing honesty and integrity back into Queensland Parliament. This Bill would make it an offence to provide false evidence to the Legislative Assembly or a committee of the Assembly.
February 19th, 2010, Category: Initiatives, JP's Media Releases, Media Release
Political parties, candidates and other individuals who release false or misleading advertising during election campaigns will face fines of up to $10,000 under new laws proposed by the LNP.
February 18th, 2010, Category: Opposition Bills
Queensland has differences in our education system – we always have had – and the differences in the past have often led us to be the best.
February 18th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
Both public and private schools deserve Government support as variety in education leads to greater achievement, ability and diversity, LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said today.
Mr Langbroek made the comments while launching the Menzies Research Centre’s new book, “Variety and Choice” by Dr Graeme Starr, at a function in Parliament House today.
Mr Langbroek said the book, [...]
February 16th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
Premier Bligh and the Labor Party have been challenged to give bipartisan support to proposed new laws from the LNP that will create new offences relating to assaults on school grounds.
The LNP renewed its call for new laws today, following the tragic death of a Brisbane school boy, with Opposition Leader John-Paul Langborek saying there [...]
February 15th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
The State Opposition has welcomed Tony Abbott’s commitment to hospital boards for Queensland public hospitals – a long-standing LNP policy.
LNP Leader and Leader of the Opposition John-Paul Langbroek said Mr Abbott’s commitment to hospital boards was aligned with the long-standing LNP policy to give nurses and doctors who worked in the hospitals and the community [...]
February 12th, 2010, Category: JP's Media Releases, Media Release
The Bligh Labor Government has continued to look out for its Labor mates with the Premier throwing out the rule book for her former chief of staff.
LNP Leader and Leader of the Opposition John-Paul Langbroek said the decision to allow former chief of staff Mike Kaiser to deal with his colleagues in his new role [...]
February 12th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Labor has failed to explain its double standards on adoption and surrogacy for same sex couples and singles.
LNP Leader and Leader of the Opposition John-Paul Langbroek said new laws legalising altruistic surrogacy contradicted the Bligh Labor Government’s adoption legislation and stance on the best interests of children.
“When the Bligh Labor Government passed the new Adoption [...]
February 11th, 2010, Category: Media Release
What the Bligh Labor Government was planning on privatising before the 2009 election will remain a secret following the defeat of an LNP motion in State Parliament last night.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek called on the Premier to table a copy of the Cabinet submission from October 2008 which included recommendations about asset [...]
February 11th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Premier Anna Bligh was today backing away from Kevin Rudd’s Emissions Trading Scheme as fast as she could despite boasting last year that Queensland could “go it alone” if a national scheme didn’t get up.
In State Parliament today, the Opposition quizzed the Climate Change Minister about Ms Bligh’s pledge to “go it alone” and “rally [...]
February 10th, 2010, Category: Media Release
BLIGH and Labor were secretly planning to sell Queenslands assets well before the 2009 election, the LNP said today.
Leader of the Opposition and the LNP John-Paul Langbroek said Queenslanders no longer believed Premier Bligh’s claims that the decision to sell off state assets was made after the lection.
”Premier Bligh and Treasurer Fraser have consistently claimed [...]
February 9th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Member for Hervey Bay Ted Sorensen has been appointed the LNP’s Deputy Whip.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Mr Sorensen would assist the Opposition’s Chief Whip, Mike Horan, in organising MPs during Parliament sittings.
“The Whip and Deputy Whip perform a range of duties for the Leader including organising speaking lists, ensuring attendance for [...]
February 9th, 2010, Category: Media Release
About half of all patients who presented to the Gold Coast Hospital emergency department experienced ramping or waited longer than recommended last December.
Leader of the LNP John-Paul Langbroek said the Minister for Health had been forced to release the data because of a Right to Information request from the State Opposition.
“A lack of hospital beds [...]
February 8th, 2010, Category: Media Release
One in five Queenslanders needing emergency hospital treatment within 10 minutes are not being seen on time and ambulance officers are losing thousands of hours because they are stuck ramping at hospitals, new figures obtained by the State Opposition reveal.State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the previously secret Queensland Health data, obtained under [...]
February 4th, 2010, Category: Media Release
It has taken two reports into the A1GP fiasco to show the Bligh Labor Government should have known exactly what the Opposition knew last August.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Queenslanders have had enough of lies and excuses and it was time the Premier sacked the Minister for Sport.
“These scathing reports show that [...]
February 1st, 2010, Category: Media Release
High visibility signs, with lights that flash when school zone speed limits are active, will be rolled out across the State under an LNP Government.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the LNP would commit $10 million over four years to improving the visibility of speed limit signs in school zones.
“The LNP has been listening to the [...]
January 28th, 2010, Category: Breaking News
John-Paul Langbroek’s response to the Crime and Misconduct’s call for submissions into the review of Ministerial Office and Public Service interaction.
January 28th, 2010, Category: Breaking News
John-Paul Langbroek’s letter to Premier Anna Bligh seeking bipartisan support for the adoption of two recommendations made by the Fitzgerald Inquiry that have not been adopted in the past 20 years.
January 28th, 2010, Category: Breaking News
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January 25th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Queensland’s new Public Interest Monitor (PIM) would be hamstrung by Labor self-interest unless the Attorney-General adopted key Fitzgerald recommendations for bipartisan appointment and operation, the State Opposition said today.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said if the PIM office was to genuinely oversee issues of public interest, the Attorney-General needed to act on Fitzgerald’s recommendations.
“The real danger [...]
January 22nd, 2010, Category: Media Release
The State Opposition has thrown its support behind doctors’ calls for wasteful health spending to be reined in and accused the Bligh Labor Government of learning nothing from the Bundaberg Hospital crisis.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the LNP had long been calling for health funding to be directed to the front line [...]
January 21st, 2010, Category: Media Release
ATTORNEY-General Cameron Dick’s refusal to honour a promise to Alabama authorities in the case of convicted killer Gabe Watson is an international embarrassment, the LNP claimed today.
Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the LNP John-Paul Langbroek said Mr Dick’s failure to forward details of the Watson case to Alabama Attorney-General Troy King was yet [...]
January 20th, 2010, Category: Media Release
A new Federal Government survey showing Queensland has suffered the biggest decrease in skilled vacancies in the country confirms the state’s status as Australia’s unemployment capital under Anna Bligh and Labor.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the figures released today by the Federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations* showed Queensland was [...]
January 19th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Drafts of the Bligh Labor Government’s privatisation flyers have been deemed a “Cabinet secret”, despite the fact the brochures were sent to every Queensland household at a cost to taxpayers of almost $2 million.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Opposition had lodged a Right to Information application asking for all drafts and [...]
January 18th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Alarm bells should be ringing after a three-day lock-down at high-security Lotus Glen Prison failed to find a missing 9mm Glock pistol, the State Opposition said today.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Government needed to explain how a semi-automatic pistol was able to ‘go missing’ from a locked armoury.
“You have really got to wonder [...]
January 18th, 2010, Category: Media Release
The Bligh Labor Government has been forced to admit not a single petrol company or station has been caught over pricing for petrol since the introduction of the nine cents a litre fuel tax.
The embarrassing admission was made in the Fair Trading Minister’s answer to an Opposition Question on Notice in State Parliament.
State Opposition and [...]
January 15th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Tougher sentences are needed to deter drug and alcohol fuelled thugs from assaulting Townsville Hospital emergency department staff.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Queensland Health staff working in emergency departments had a tough enough job to do without worrying about the increasing risk of being assaulted.
“Unfortunately assaults on doctors and nurses are far [...]
January 15th, 2010, Category: Media Release
It will be a tough start to 2010 for 141,700 Queenslanders with new figures showing Queensland is Australia’s unemployment capital for the fourth month running.
Today’s Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show Queensland continues to have the highest unemployment rate in the country at 5.94 per cent (seasonally adjusted).
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said [...]
January 14th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Labor’s skyrocketing land taxes will contribute to residential rent increases in Brisbane of more than three times the inflation rate in 2010* according to forecasts by Australian Property Monitors.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said forecast rent hikes of 8 per cent would put undue pressure on Brisbane workers and their families already struggling under Labor’s fuel [...]
January 14th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Queensland small business should be given time to adjust to new Federal IR laws, the State Opposition said today.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Anna Bligh’s handover of State industrial and workplace laws to Canberra was rushed with little to no consultation with small business.
“Labor has handed out $10 million to assist unions with the changeover, [...]
January 13th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Queensland business was drowning in a mire of Bligh Labor red tape costing at least $18 billion a year, the State Opposition said today.LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek, himself a former small business owner, said Labor had burdened Queensland businesses with 70,000 pages of turgid and often meaningless compliance regulations.
“Businesses are the engine room of our [...]
January 12th, 2010, Category: Media Release
11 January 2010
Premier Bligh has been asked to explain why she is already planning another so-called trade mission to the Americas when taxpayers already pay former Labor Premier Peter Beattie half a million dollars as Trade Commissioner to the region and pay another $211,000 for Stephen Robertson to be Queensland’s Trade Minister.
Opposition and LNP Leader [...]
January 11th, 2010, Category: Media Release
A new report showing Queensland’s economic performance has fallen below South Australia and Tasmania has earned Premier Anna Bligh the tag of the “Joan Kirner of Queensland politics”.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Queensland’s economic ranking had fallen on the back of Bligh and Labor’s record increases in taxes and charges and poor [...]
January 11th, 2010, Category: Media Release
10 January 2009
New figures released today reveal that Queensland workers are suffering even more than first feared as a consequence of the Bligh Labor Government’s economic incompetence.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said new ABS figures showed Queensland had by far the highest level of ‘under-employment’ of any Australian State.
“Under-employment refers to workers that are employed who [...]
January 11th, 2010, Category: Media Release
8 January 2010
Premier Bligh and the Premier-in-waiting Cameron Dick must guarantee no jobs will be lost in the handover of all remaining industrial awards to the Rudd Governments ‘Fair Work’ system, the LNP warned today.
LNP and Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said small business owners across the State had already indicated they would be forced to [...]
January 11th, 2010, Category: Media Release
07 January 2009
Queensland’s retail sector continues to suffer as a consequence of the Bligh Labor Government’s economic incompetence.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said latest ABS figures showed state retail sector turnover increased by only 0.6 per cent in November 2009 in seasonally adjusted terms compared to October – the weakest result of any mainland state.
“In the [...]
January 7th, 2010, Category: Media Release
Joint Media Release with Shadow Minister for Transport Fiona Simpson MP
6 January 2010
The unfair penalty fee on paper public transport tickets should be suspended until the Bligh Labor Government has resolved go card access issues, the Opposition said today.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said commuters who were unable to purchase a go card shouldn’t be paying [...]
January 5th, 2010, Category: Media Release
5 January 2010
Queenslanders should not be fooled a second time by Premier Bligh’s assurances that she won’t sell further state assets given another term in office, the LNP warned today.
Leader of the Opposition and the LNP John-Paul Langbroek said Premier Bligh had form when it came to making promises before an election and breaking them [...]
January 5th, 2010, Category: Media Release
5 January 2010
The majority of youths who commit sex crimes are walking away without completing detention or rehabilitation counselling, the LNP said today.
LNP and Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Queensland was at risk of producing a whole new generation of sex offenders, with juveniles committing serious crimes only receiving a slap on the wrist.
”It is [...]
January 5th, 2010, Category: Media Release
2 January 2010
The accountability of the Bligh Labor Government has taken another hit with the Premier ordering all Ministers to stay silent on the fire sale of public assets, the LNP said today.
LNP and Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the gag order was a desperate ploy to stop further embarrassment for the Bligh Labor Government.
”Queenslanders [...]
January 5th, 2010, Category: Homepage Ad, Media Release
24 December 2009
Queensland will remain less accountable than New South Wales, following the State Auditor-General’s decision to not investigate Bligh and the Labor Government’s taxpayer-funded advertising, LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said today.
”The New South Wales Auditor-General Peter Achterstraat recently released a report indicating that some government advertising campaigns in that State served party political interests [...]
December 22nd, 2009, Category: Media Release
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December 21st, 2009, Category: Media Release
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December 21st, 2009, Category: Breaking News
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December 14th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The Prime Minister has said he is confident Queensland will not default on its record $85 billion debt. The challenge for Mr Rudd now, is to release the debt repayment plan of the Queensland Government or force Premier Bligh to release that plan.
N.B. Exact quotes from the Prime Minister at end of statement.
At no stage [...]
December 8th, 2009, Category: Media Release
DESPITE the Gold Coast being the most dangerous place for on-duty police, the Bligh Labor government has failed to boost numbers to ensure police safety.
Opposition Leader and Member for Surfers Paradise John-Paul Langbroek MP said revelations that 13 police officers at the Nerang station were having to patrol an area stretching from Carrara to the [...]
December 8th, 2009, Category: Media Release
As Queenslanders head off on Christmas holidays for the first time since Labor’s fuel tax took effect, Premier Anna Bligh has been challenged to explain why a new report shows our state’s petrol prices have gone from the lowest in Australia to among the highest.
N.B. Petrol price figures from Motormouth.com.au at bottom of media release.
State [...]
December 4th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The mid-year economic review has confirmed the Bligh Labor Government doesn’t need to sell off state assets and its pledge to create 100,000 jobs is unachievable, the State Opposition said today.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said while the Bligh Labor Government was raking in more revenue than ever before, expenses were still going [...]
December 4th, 2009, Category: Media Release
As the worst behaved ever Schoolies draws to an end, concerned Gold Coast residents and police have called for a review of how the event is conducted.
Leader of the Opposition and Member for Surfers Paradise John-Paul Langbroek said the behaviour of 2009 Schoolies had been appalling.
“In the past fortnight police have reported more arrests, public [...]
December 3rd, 2009, Category: Media Release
CLAIMS that Schoolies travelled from Brisbane to the Gold Coast using a Department of Child Safety cab voucher prove the Bligh government has its priorities wrong.
Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the LNP John-Paul Langbroek said while thousands of at-risk children are being neglected by the department others, it seems, are being allowed to [...]
December 2nd, 2009, Category: Media Release
Bureaucratic mumbo jumbo can’t hide the Bligh Labor Government’s intention to make electricity even more expensive, the Opposition said today.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Queensland Competition Authority’s final report into electricity prices made it clear yet another price hike was on the way, with low income and regional electricity consumers expected to receive the [...]
December 2nd, 2009, Category: Media Release
Children classified as needing urgent assessment by Child Safety staff are falling through the gaps, the State Opposition said today.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said questioning in Parliament had revealed Child Safety workers were unable to keep up with child protection notifications despite tripling the budget and doubling the staff numbers in the past five years.
“The [...]
December 1st, 2009, Category: Media Release
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek today congratulated Tony Abbott on his election as Leader of the Federal Liberal Party.
Mr Langbroek also welcomed the clear direction and decisiveness of the Liberal party-room vote on the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
“The Federal Liberal party-room’s decision on the ETS virtually mirrors the unanimous decision of the LNP [...]
December 1st, 2009, Category: Media Release
Queenslanders face another nine per cent electricity price hike because of the Beattie and Bligh Labor Government’s failure to invest in infrastructure and the loss of the state’s AAA credit rating, the State Opposition said today.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the price rise forecast for 2010/11 followed increases in the past three [...]
November 26th, 2009, Category: Media Release
IF you go down to the woods today, you’re in for a big surprise because today’s the day Bligh and Labor begin their fire sale of Queensland assets.
Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the LNP John-Paul Langbroek said it was a sad day for Queensland when the Bligh Labor government had to flog off [...]
November 26th, 2009, Category: Media Release
LABOR’S blatant politicisation of Queensland’s bureaucracy has finally come home to bite them.
Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the LNP John-Paul Langbroek said the CMC enquiry into Judy Spence’s rugby rorts affair has revealed a bureaucracy bullied into submission by political imperatives.
“After 11 years in government, Bligh and Labor have become far too arrogant [...]
November 25th, 2009, Category: Media Release
PREMIER Bligh is living in a fool’s paradise if she thinks her government is setting the national agenda for accountability.
Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the LNP John-Paul Langbroek said Premier Bligh’s claim in state parliament this morning that Queensland’s Right to Information legislation made her government more accountable was laughable.
“Anyone who has attempted [...]
November 25th, 2009, Category: Media Release
THE wrongful transfer of funds to the UQ rugby academy is just the latest example of Labor’s tradition of vote rorting and cash for mates.
Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the LNP John-Paul Langbroek said it was a time-honoured ALP tradition to pork barrel voters with cash for sports just before an election.
“Just as [...]
November 25th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The LNP will move to break the back of organised crime in Queensland by introducing tough new measures to seize the unexplained wealth of criminals.
Deputy Opposition Leader and LNP Shadow Attorney-General Lawrence Springborg today released a draft Private Member’s Bill for public consultation, with the final laws to go before State Parliament in early 2010.
Mr [...]
November 24th, 2009, Category: Media Release, Uncategorized
New ‘integrity’ laws being debated in Parliament this week won’t put an end to the Bligh Labor Government’s culture of corruption and cronyism, the State Opposition said today.
Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said an independent Royal Commission was needed to truly restore integrity and accountability in Queensland.
“The key issue with this Integrity Bill is [...]
November 20th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Scrapping the compulsory two-page sustainable homes checklist would be one of the first actions of an LNP Government, the Opposition said today.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the badly planned, onerous Mandatory Sustainability Declaration, which requires home owners to make calculations including their electricity use for the past 12 months and the flow capacity of their [...]
November 19th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Providing jobs and better services will do more to attract and keep people in the regions than talkfests and one off cash handouts, the State Opposition said today.
Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said while a $3000 boost to the first home owners grant in regional areas may sound attractive on the surface, he questioned [...]
November 17th, 2009, Category: Media Release
THE Bligh government should stop procrastinating over the Gold Coast Light Rail project and start building.
Leader of the Opposition and Member for Surfers Paradise John-Paul Langbroek said the longer Bligh and Labor dithered the longer it would be before Gold Coast residents had access to a viable public transport system.
“This is a project which has [...]
November 16th, 2009, Category: Media Release
POLICE to population ratios on the Gold Coast have improved in the last 12 months but are still insufficient to stem soaring crime rates.
Leader of the Opposition and Member for Surfers Paradise John-Paul Langbroek said 10 years of neglect under Labor had given criminals the upper hand on the Gold Coast.
“The slight improvement of one [...]
November 16th, 2009, Category: Media Release
State Opposition and LNP Leader, John-Paul Langbroek, has called on Labor’s leadership aspirants to end speculation on Anna Bligh’s future by either bringing a leadership ballot to a head now or locking in to support the Premier.
Mr Langbroek said the internal division in the Labor Party was sapping business confidence at a time when the [...]
November 12th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The State Opposition today welcomed the Federal Environment Minister’s decision to reject the Traveston Crossing Dam, saying it exposed all Anna Bligh’s lies about the environmentally disastrous proposal.
State LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Anna Bligh and Labor had put the people of the Mary Valley through three years of unnecessary heartache.
“The LNP has been saying [...]
November 11th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Just one day after announcing a so-called ‘integrity overhaul’, Premier Bligh has admitted she will continue to milk millions from the public purse to promote herself and her Labor Government right up to the eve of an election.
During Question Time today, the Premier also revealed the proposed changes were more about stopping the Opposition from [...]
November 9th, 2009, Category: Media Release
TOTAL assaults on Gold Coast police have increased by a staggering 44 per cent in the past two years, while assaults in comparable districts in the corresponding period have decreased dramatically.
Figures released by the Bligh Labor government in response to an Opposition question show the Gold Coast now has the dubious distinction of being the [...]
November 4th, 2009, Category: Media Release
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek will meet with business and tourism groups in Mackay and the Whitsundays over the next two days as part of a campaign to stop Anna Bligh and Labor’s privatisation agenda and save Queensland jobs.
Mr Langbroek will be joined on the Save Jobs – Stop Privatisation Tour by senior shadow ministers Rosemary [...]
November 4th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The LNP has pledged to keep Anna Bligh to her promise that Queensland’s 120,000 public servants will not miss out on their pay rise before Christmas.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said public servants were understandably edgy about the way the Bligh government and Alex Scott and his Public Sector Union had handled the pay rise issue.
“They [...]
November 3rd, 2009, Category: Media Release
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek will meet with wildlife conservationist Bob Irwin at the site of the Traveston Crossing Dam on Monday to discuss the impact of the ill-planned dam.
“The deadline for Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett to make a decision on this dam is fast approaching — I want Mr Garrett to have no doubts [...]
October 29th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Despite promising a new era of accountability and honesty in Parliament, Anna Bligh last night directed all of her MPs to vote against a Bill which would have made lying in Parliament a crime.
LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Labor’s determination to permit lying in parliament ensured Anna Bligh could continue to lie about privatisation, Sports [...]
October 28th, 2009, Category: Media Release
THE only way to investigate myriad allegations of corruption, cronyism and unethical behaviour by the Labor government was to establish an Independent Commission of Inquiry, Opposition LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said today.
Introducing a Private Member’s Bill into State Parliament, Mr Langbroek said the majority of Queenslanders no longer trusted the Bligh Labor Government.
“The extent and [...]
October 26th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Premier Anna Bligh was talking tough about new lobbying rules for councils while still maintaining a veil of secrecy over what lobbyists were employed in her and Ministers’ offices, and what ‘success fees’ her staff had received.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said while he had no problem with moves to extend the lobbyists [...]
October 22nd, 2009, Category: Media Release
The Gold Coast has some of the most overcrowded state schools in Queensland, with 88.1 per cent of students attending schools operating at or almost at their maximum capacity, the State Opposition revealed today.
Leader of the Opposition and Member for Surfers Paradise John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Labor Government’s failure to keep up with the [...]
October 20th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The State Opposition has today called on the Auditor-General to conduct a forensic examination of the Bligh Labor Government’s bungling of the A1 GP event on the Gold Coast.
The call comes after Sport Minister Phil Reeves admitted in a meeting with the Opposition yesterday afternoon that the Bligh Labor Government had not done any due [...]
October 19th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Another lying to parliament scandal has erupted over the Bligh Labor government’s decision to invest over $11 million in the failed A1 Grand Prix motor-racing event that had been scheduled to take place on the Gold Coast next weekend.
State Opposition and LNP Leader, John-Paul Langbroek, released the transcripts of three questions asked of the Bligh [...]
October 19th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Premier Anna Bligh has been told to head to London after Russia and not come back to Queensland until she has secured the A1GP race for the Gold Coast.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Anna Bligh should head to London to sort out the A1GP mess once and for all.
“Anna Bligh appointed her [...]
October 12th, 2009, Category: Media Release
11 October 2009
While Queensland Premier Anna Bligh this week visits Abu Dhabi, Saint Petersburg and Moscow, State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek will tomorrow embark on a four day tour of Queensland’s remote Torres Strait Islands to discuss cost-of-living issues along with health, education and local government services.
As a part of the five Island [...]
October 7th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Queensland pensioners could be given a reprieve from the Bligh Labor Government’s planned public housing rent increase if a motion moved by the LNP is passed in State Parliament tonight.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek will move that the Parliament “opposes any move by the State Government to use the recent changes in the [...]
October 7th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The Bligh Labor Government has left the door open to Queensland Rail and Queensland Ports being majority foreign owned after today admitting in State Parliament that it had not even considered imposing a cap on the level of foreign ownership as part of Labor’s privatisation agenda.
During Question Time in State Parliament today, the Minister for [...]
October 2nd, 2009, Category: Media Release
After having been given one month to detail which of her staff had previously been paid ‘success fees’, Ms Bligh today refused to release the information in an attempt to keep the payments secret from Queenslanders forever.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Ms Bligh’s claims to be cleaning up the corrupt Labor government [...]
October 1st, 2009, Category: Media Release
Anna Bligh’s handpicked, Labor mate fat cats look set to be big winners from the State Government’s fire sale of assets but what’s in it for workers and Queensland taxpayers, the State Opposition asked today.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said revelations hundreds of executives of state owned companies could get six figure retention [...]
October 1st, 2009, Category: Media Release
State LNP Leader and Shadow Minister for the Arts John-Paul Langbroek congratulated the Queensland Theatre Company on its 40th anniversary today
“Today marks the 40th anniversary of the opening of Queensland Theatre Company’s first production, Royal Hunt of the Sun, in 1969.
“Queensland Theatre Company should be congratulated on reaching this milestone.
“The company plays an important role [...]
September 29th, 2009, Category: Media Release
A stinging attack from the chief adviser to the Queensland Parliament has triggered renewed Opposition calls for a Royal Commission into Bligh Labor’s corruption and cronyism.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the submission by the Clerk of Parliament, Neil Laurie, painted a damning picture of the Beattie and Bligh Labor Government’s lack of [...]
September 16th, 2009, Category: Media Release
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek and Deputy Leader Lawrence Springborg will take part in a ‘Wednesday Without Words’ function today with the Aphasia Association Queensland.
Guests at the function on the Speakers Green at State Parliament today will take part in activities with the Aphasia Association to better understand the difficulties experienced in communicating only through [...]
September 16th, 2009, Category: Media Release
CRIPPLING infrastructure charges are adding around $50,000 to the cost of a new home on the Gold Coast, putting property and construction jobs at risk.
Speaking in State Parliament today, State Opposition Leader and Member for Surfers Paradise John-Paul Langbroek said the most affordable house and land package on the Gold Coast was $100,000 more expensive [...]
September 15th, 2009, Category: Breaking News, Media Release
The State Opposition released “a blueprint to end Bligh Labor’s corruption and cronyism” outlining a further 35 questions Queenslanders must be allowed to have a say on, including the need for a Royal Commission, if real efforts are to be made to restore integrity and accountability in Queensland.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said [...]
September 14th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Queenslanders have been urged not to forget that the Greens, and not just Labor, are equally responsible for today’s decision by Anna Bligh to give the ‘green light’ to the Traveston Crossing Dam that the LNP has warned will become one of Queensland’s greatest ever environmental disasters.
State Opposition and LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the [...]
September 8th, 2009, Category: Media Release
On the first anniversary of Anna Bligh’s forgotten plan “Toward Q2″ – a plan she said was designed to retain Queensland’s AAA credit rating, Labor MPs are sending out community surveys that don’t even mention the economy.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said a year after the release of Anna Bligh’s much hyped Q2 strategy, all [...]
August 31st, 2009, Category: Media Release
Premier Bligh will have 30 days from tomorrow to come clean and reveal the names of staff members in her office and the office of her Ministers that have been paid ‘success fees’ for securing government approvals for projects under the Labor Government.
As a part of a growing public campaign to expose and weed out [...]
August 31st, 2009, Category: Media Release
It’s official: Labor’s Smart State has become the Labor Secret State after Premier Anna Bligh was today caught out trying to censor public submissions on a green paper allegedly designed to clean up corruption in the Bligh Labor Government.
Opposition and LNP Leader, John-Paul Langbroek, today exposed how the Premier had started to crudely censor public [...]
August 19th, 2009, Category: Media Release
State Government Ministers who lie to Parliamentary committees will again face potential criminal charges under LNP moves to improve accountability in the wake of a string of corruption scandals engulfing the Labor Government.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the LNP was today introducing a Private Member’s Bill into State Parliament to repeal the Labor Government [...]
August 18th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Premier Bligh will have 30 days to come clean and reveal the names of former lobbyists employed in her office and in the offices of Labor Ministers, and to reveal if they have still been meeting with their former clients who are trying to do business with the Labor Government.
As a part of a growing [...]
August 18th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Another Labor cash scandal is unfolding in Queensland with Premier Bligh being asked to ‘please explain’ the sudden transfer of over $4 million into the Queensland Labor Party’s election kitty at the same time she says she wants to look at capping electoral donations.
State Opposition Leader, John-Paul Langbroek, has questioned the suspiciously large and sudden [...]
August 11th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Today was the day Anna Bligh was supposed to drive to Government House and call a state election to be held on Saturday 5th September… if the Premier hadn’t lied when she said her government would run a full three-year term.
NB. Media please note fast-facts on election dates at end of press-release.
State Opposition Leader [...]
August 11th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Children in regional Queensland will now have even less access to arts programs as a result of savage funding cuts.
LNP spokesman for the Arts, John-Paul Langbroek said school programs were hardest hit.
“Programs which bring arts to regional areas such as the On Tour In-Schools program, may not run beyond this year as a result of [...]
August 10th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The State Opposition is seeking an urgent meeting with the Crime and Misconduct Commission to determine whether the watchdog has the powers and resources it needs to fully investigate the Labor mates scandal.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek’s move to write to CMC Chair Robert Needham today follows the Premier’s repeated rejection of a stand alone [...]
August 7th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The Premier should hold a Royal Commission, not just issue a discussion paper, if she was genuine about tackling the culture of corruption and cronyism in Queensland, the State Opposition said today.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Labor Government was rotten to the core and a discussion paper wasn’t going to achieve anything.
“Anna [...]
August 6th, 2009, Category: Media Release
More doubt has been cast over the Premier’s pledge to deliver ‘jobs – not job cuts’ with unemployment in Queensland continuing to rise and major businesses shutting down their operations.
In April, Queensland’s unemployment rate rose to 4.9 per cent, with an extra 3600 Queenslanders joining the dole queue.
In the past 12 months, the number of [...]
August 5th, 2009, Category: Media Release
“I have made the decision today to accept the offer of my Chief of Staff to resign from his current position,” Mr John-Paul Langbroek the Leader of the Opposition said today.
“I make this decision with regret, but we have decided that this is in the best interests of the LNP in order to focus on [...]
August 4th, 2009, Category: Media Release
LNP Opposition Leader, John-Paul Langbroek has come out in strong support of his colleague, Ros Bates MP.
“To draw parallels between Ms Bates, who lobbied for treatment for families with rare conditions, and the Premier’s Chief of Staff, a self-confessed rorter, who lobbied for developers is laughable.
“Not only are the two situations at polar opposite ends [...]
July 31st, 2009, Category: Media Release
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek has demanded a Royal Commission into alleged State Government corruption.
“When Parliament resumes next week, I will be asking the Government to recommend to the Governor that a Royal Commission be established to investigate the culture of secrecy, political nepotism and allegations of corruption within the Government,” Mr Langbroek said.
“The corruption [...]
July 27th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The State Opposition is calling for ‘wasteful spending’ to be urgently reined in following the release of new figures showing the Bligh Labor Government spent more than $63 million last financial year on stationery, pot plants and newspapers.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Labor Government was spending more than it was earning and [...]
July 21st, 2009, Category: Media Release
The empty and unused Hyperbaric Chamber at Royal Brisbane Hospital which has cost Queenslanders almost $3 million but is yet to treat a single patient is another shameful example of the Labor Government’s neglect of Health, the State Opposition said today.
State Opposition Leader, John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Labor Government has left the hypobaric chamber [...]
July 20th, 2009, Category: Media Release
John-Paul Langbroek MP
Lawrence Springborg MP
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the unions were just as responsible for the assets fire sale as the Labor Party was because they spent millions of dollars getting Labor re-elected.
The State Opposition has challenged unions to cut their financial support to Labor to prove they are genuinely opposed to the [...]
July 20th, 2009, Category: Media Release
I have recently begun to talk about the four pillars that form the framework to my policies and how the LNP would govern Queensland.
Queenslander’s have been lied to and ignored for too long but there is an alternative.
My promise to you is to return your Queensland, to give you back your way of life and [...]
July 15th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The Bligh Labor Government has broken yet another promise with the Treasurer claiming a pledge to “name and shame” petrol stations who over inflate prices was a “one day only” promise.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Labor Government had lied to Queenslanders before the election about their plans for a fuel tax and [...]
July 15th, 2009, Category: Media Release
On the back of last weeks plummeting unemployment figures comes a new report by the Urban Development Institute of Australia which warns that 75,000 building industry jobs are under threat.
State Opposition Leader, John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Labor Government’s 100,000 jobs promise is being revealed as a farce.
“This report makes it clear that these jobs [...]
July 15th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The Bligh Labor Government’s back flip on Gaming Machine revenue paints a very clear picture of a Government acting in pure desperation to fill its budget black hole, the State Opposition said today.
State Opposition Leader, John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Labor Government has secretly and shamefully removed the $20 note limit for poker machines despite [...]
July 15th, 2009, Category: Media Release
RISING fuel prices and allegations of price gouging are likely to go unpunished despite the Bligh Government’s tough line on profiteering, the State Opposition said today.
Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Bligh Government’s “shock” over escalating fuel costs was disingenuous and said they only had themselves to blame.
“Fuel prices are more expensive because of Anna [...]
July 3rd, 2009, Category: Media Release
Restoring Queensland’s AAA credit rating and easing the burden for business will create jobs and ensure taxpayers’ money is spent delivering services not paying off hefty interest bills, LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said today.
Speaking to the Queensland Media Club in Brisbane today, Mr Langbroek outlined the four principles that would underpin his approach to governing [...]
July 3rd, 2009, Category: Media Release
FNQ motorists and tourism will be hit hard by the Bligh Government’s new fuel tax that’s pushed up bowser prices at least 9.2 cents a litre, the State Opposition said today.
In Cairns this morning, LNP Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Labor’s local Member Desley Boyle, as Tourism Minister was adamant cheaper fuel gave Queensland a “competitive [...]
July 2nd, 2009, Category: Media Release
The State Opposition have called on Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon to stop shielding the Bligh Labor Government from any criticism following the release of the latest State of our Hospital report.
State Opposition Leader, John-Paul Langbroek said the buck passing and excuses have to stop.
”The sick state of our hospitals is the direct result [...]
June 30th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The Auditor-General has again blasted the Bligh Labor Government’s management of government Departments in a third damning report in as many weeks.
The report released today has labelled the Bligh Labor Government handling of financial audits as “immature” and “inconsistent”.
It follows similar scathing reports on the Bligh Labor Government’s planning and management of health and transport [...]
June 29th, 2009, Category: Media Release
The first 100 days of the Bligh Labor Government has been a debacle dominated by a string of broken promises and a continued failure to plan and manage infrastructure properly, the State Opposition said today.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the legacy of more than a decade of squandered opportunity had caught up with the [...]
June 29th, 2009, Category: Media Release
A deluge of cash is still being splashed on the Queensland Water Commission despite the Premier’s promise to slash its Budget, the State Opposition said today.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Queensland Water Commission was a “bloated bureaucracy” that was costing fourteen times what the Labor Government claimed it would.
“The Water Commission was set [...]
June 23rd, 2009, Category: Media Release
South-east Queenslanders are unnecessarily sitting in worsening traffic gridlock because of the Bligh Labor Government’s failure to plan and manage infrastructure properly, a damning Auditor-General’s report has found. State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Auditor-General’s report was the second report released this month condemning Labor’s inability to plan projects properly.
“Labor’s record on infrastructure [...]
June 18th, 2009, Category: Breaking News, Speeches
No longer the low-tax state
The Premier and her Treasurer keep saying that this is a tough Budget. And it certainly is a budget that’s tough on all Queenslanders, who will be paying more every time they turn on a tap, flick on the lights, fill up their car, or go to the supermarket.
The days of [...]
June 16th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Gold Coast can expect little from a State Budget that will hit the hip pocket of all Queenslanders.
Opposition Leader and Member for Surfers Paradise, John-Paul Langbroek said the Treasurer had simply recycled spending announcements for the area.
“I’m disappointed the Bligh Government hasn’t done more to protect local jobs and create new ones.
“Most of the goods [...]
June 16th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Queenslanders will have to pay an extra $1.2 billion in interest payments every year because the Bligh Labor Government has lost the state’s AAA credit rating, the head of Queensland’s Treasury Corporation has revealed.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the frank admission by Sir Leo Hielscher dealt yet another blow to the tattered financial credibility [...]
June 15th, 2009, Category: Media Release
With a new fuel tax and vehicle registration going up again, Queensland will now be the most expensive state to register and run a car. The new fuel tax that this budget introduces punishes Queensland families at the petrol bowser and at the checkout.
June 15th, 2009, Category: Breaking News
Treasurer Andrew Fraser recently handed down the State Budget. I presented my budget reply speech to Queensland Parliament on Thursday, June 18. For a copy of my speech please go to the speeches tab on this site.
June 5th, 2009, Category: Breaking News, Speeches
Mr LANGBROEK (Surfers Paradise—LNP) (Leader of the Opposition) (5.28 pm): I move—
That this parliament notes the gross financial mismanagement of the Bligh government and the $64 billion in debt the Premier and Treasurer accumulated before the global financial crisis and calls upon the Premier to stop misleading Queenslanders about the reasons for the fire sale [...]
June 2nd, 2009, Category: Media Release
The full extent of the Bligh Labor Government’s financial mismanagement was laid bare today with confirmation of a fire sale of state assets and the introduction of new fuel tax just 74 days after the State Election.
May 28th, 2009, Category: Media Release
Queenslanders could be slugged more for everything from birth certificates to the ambulance levy after the Treasurer today revealed government charges would rise above inflation in next month’s State Budget.
State Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said Queenslanders were paying a hefty price for Labor’s financial mismanagement, with every election promise Labor made proving worthless.
“Last week in [...]
May 11th, 2009, Category: Media Release
THE Bligh Government has admitted they knew electricity prices would rise before going to an early election but decided not to tell anyone.
State Opposition leader John-Paul Langbroek said the Energy Minister’s comments that Queenslanders should “get used to” higher electricity bills smacked of arrogance and contradicted the Government’s promise that consumers would pay less for [...]
May 7th, 2009, Category: Media Release
More doubt has been cast over the Premier’s pledge to deliver ‘jobs – not job cuts’ with unemployment in Queensland continuing to rise and major businesses shutting down their operations.
In April, Queensland’s unemployment rate rose to 4.9 per cent, with an extra 3600 Queenslanders joining the dole queue.
In the past 12 months, the number of [...]
