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Queensland's "Buy Local" T-shirts made in Bangladesh and the US

By Patrick Lion April 17, 2011

THE Bligh Government has made a complete mockery of its "Buy Local" flood recovery campaign after buying cheap imported T-shirts from overseas to promote the program.

The Sunday Mail  can reveal public servants even tried to cover up the embarrassing bungle by cutting off the shirts' tags displaying the country of origin.

The 1500 shirts emblazoned with "Buy local Back Qld" were to be handed out to promote Premier Anna Bligh's Operation Queenslander campaign, touting struggling businesses after the summer natural disasters.

However, the Government has admitted to a "gross error of judgment" in ignoring local manufacturers and instead buying almost $10,000 worth of T-shirts made in Bangladesh and the US.

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Red Tape Hurts NQ Farmers

Letter to the Editor from Andrew Cripps MP, Member for Hinchinbrook, Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Food & Regional Queensland

Environment Minister, Kate Jones, refused to reveal to me the cost of establishing and monitoring the Bligh Labor Government’s so-called reef run off regulations in her answer to two recent questions on notice.  Minister Jones has since been forced to reveal that $25 million has been spent on rolling out this bureaucratic nightmare (QCL, 12/5/2011).

The Bligh Labor Government swore black and blue that more red tape in the form of big stick regulations was the only thing that could save the Great Barrier Reef.  This politically driven policy has hurt farmers and graziers in North Queensland, now forced to develop and submit, costly and complex environmental risk management plans to DERM.

 

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Premier Anna Bligh to fly from Mackay to Brisbane and back for Origin I in government jet
By Steven Wardill

From: The Courier-Mail May 20, 2011

PREMIER Anna Bligh will use the Government jet to return from regional Parliament to Brisbane to attend the first State of Origin match.

The Premier yesterday said she would travel south from Mackay on Wednesday afternoon and return north that night.

Ms Bligh said she would use the trip to meet with NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell before the game.

"This is the first chance Mr O'Farrell and I have had to meet since he became premier, so there's a lot to talk about, including the CoAG (Council of Australian Governments) agenda, health reform and our cross-border agreement on service delivery," she said.

Ms Bligh has been criticised throughout her premiership for her decisions to shun commercial flights for the comfort and convenience of the jet, which costs about $3000 an hour to operate.

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Paying the price to rush cuts to staff costs

Courier Mail 6/5/11

By Steven Wardill

THE Bligh Government will take three years and spend millions of dollars on cuts to the bureaucracy that could be achieved in a little over 18 months for free.

According to the Public Service Commission, there are 200,000 people employed by the Government and 80 per cent of them deliver frontline services.

That leaves about 40,000 who are eligible for the voluntary redundancy program now being offered by the Government.

With the separation rate in the public service hovering at around 5.5 per cent annually, a hiring freeze on non-frontline staff could reduce the bureaucracy's size by the 3500 now being targeted in about 18 months.

If it took twice as long it would still be achieved in the Government's timeframe but for free.

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