A Labor letterbox drop this week angered engineers and resources industry figures. In it Jones chides the Government for allowing “the dumping of dredge spoil in our Reef”. This is a fiction. There are no plans – and there never have been plans – to dump spoil in or on the Reef. There is no dredging on the Reef for that matter, despite deceitful campaigns on GetUp! and Labor Party websites. Newman supporters challenged Jones’s green credentials, pointing out she was a member of the Bligh cabinet that welcomed Gina Rinehart’s plans for immense Galilee coal projects requiring a massive port expansion. At the time Queensland Conservation pointed out that not long after Jones became minister the state approved 15 new coal mines and granted exploration permits for another 52. Jones has been challenged to say whether she still backs the Galilee projects but remains silent. Jones has already been caught out gilding the lily about education. Her online Labor Party profile says she is “deeply concerned” that cuts to frontline services “have led to less teachers in our local schools and less nurses in our hospitals”. This is the Big Lie of the entire campaign. As I have already pointed out there are more than 48 extra teachers in Ashgrove schools since Newman won the seat. Hypocritically, Jones says in her blurbs that she is worried about the “lack of integrity and transparency in government”. I’m so glad she is concerned about integrity. She must now rush to change that erroneous online material and pulp mendacious advertising material. Labor’s mantra has been “cuts to frontline services”. What cuts? The Budget papers show there are now 1041 extra nurses in Queensland hospitals than when Bligh left office. This week the LNP pledged 2654 extra doctors, nurses and health practitioners over the next three years. As well there are more than 900 extra police and 1700 extra teachers and teachers’ aides since Bligh left office. So Jones and most Labor candidates are peddling falsehoods when they claim Newman has cut frontline services. It’s especially galling to see sections of the electronic media allowing ALP candidates to froth at the mouth about non-existent cuts. Annastacia Palaszczuk’s integrity also faces the acid test when Parliament resumes. She has been referred to the Ethics Committee by the Speaker Fiona Simpson for allegedly misleading the House. Palaszczuk told Parliament last year that cuts to education funding resulted in teacher sackings. Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek disputed this, saying education funding had actually gone up. Palaszczuk “ranged from offensive to factually incorrect” Langbroek complained. In a letter to the Speaker tabled in Parliament, Langbroek accused the Opposition Leader of a “smear campaign”. “Political points should not be made at the cost of the truth, nor at the expense of the integrity of the Queensland parliamentary system,” the Minister said. * * * * * * * * INSTITUTE BOSS SAYS ADS ARE MISLEADING THE Labor Party stands accused of deliberately attempting to mislead voters. The Australian Institute of Progress says ALP advertisements on television and social media about privatisation “contain a number of untruths”. (commenter Peter B)
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 05:50:36 +0000
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