Queensland election: Newman government under scrutiny over coal donation The Queensland premier, Campbell Newman, has been forced to fend off attacks on the integrity of his government as new details emerged linking one of his ministers to a business figure involved in a controversial coalmine expansion. Newman hit the election campaign trail on Tuesday with Ian Walker, who Guardian Australia can reveal took a donation from a board director of New Hope Coal before his election in 2012. Walker, as the minister for science, information technology, innovation and the arts, subsequently oversaw the department which cleared levels of air pollution from uncovered coal trains in Brisbane before the expansion of New Hope’s Acland mine. Walker was also acting minister for state development when he called for public input on New Hope’s environmental impact statement for Acland last year. Read More: theguardian/world/2015/jan/21/queensland-election-newman-government-scrutiny-coal-donation?CMP=soc_567
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:45:45 +0000
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