Opposition questioning in State Parliament has revealed $80,640 has been spent to produce and distribute 51,800 plastic signs promoting the Bligh Labor Government’s solar slogan.

Shadow Energy and Water Utilities Minister Steve Dickson said the solar sign splurge was another example of the Bligh Labor Government wasting taxpayers’ money on self-promotion.

"It’s a little ironic that the government champions the environment on the one hand while it’s mass producing a stack of plastic signs to advertise this fact on the other, isn’t it?" Mr Dickson asked.

"These signs don’t even mention the solar hot water scheme by name. This is just blatant propaganda by the Bligh government to push an agenda. It’s misappropriation of funding as advertising.

The Bligh Labor Government’s advertising costs continue to skyrocket - hitting $7 million a month as they ramp up their “blatant self promotion” ahead of the next election, the State Opposition said today.

LNP Shadow Minister for Waste Watch Fiona Simpson said Opposition questioning in Parliament* revealed the Bligh Labor Government spent $13.81 million on advertising in just the two months of March and April this year.

TAXPAYERS will be slugged almost half a million dollars for a plush Los Angeles office no longer needed by the Bligh Government.

The Courier-Mail can reveal a US law firm has struck a cut-price deal with the Government to sub-let office space formerly used by Queensland's Trade Commissioner to the Americas.

Under the deal, the office will still cost Queensland taxpayers about $70,000 a year for the next five years and $100,000 on completion of the lease.

The Government decided to shift its trade headquarters to Chile last year, just months after signing a long-term lease in the award-winning skyscraper in downtown LA.