But the government,in particular,has had anything but a chance to take a breath or bed down bubbling issues over the winter break.
Asked about recent Brisbane Times polling on Monday,Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the election still some 14-months away was ‘not a popularity contest’,but one of ideas.Robert Rough
While the gave them a chance to spruik their goods across the state,events since haven’t been so favourable.
This month’s annual estimates period saw news served up about the government’s decision to refashion a key piece of.
Deemed too costly and time-consuming,the idea of a one-stop “clearing house” for complaints about government will instead be ticked-off by upgrading.
(For his part,LNP leader David Crisafulli he would make it happen if elevated to the top job come next October – one of his party’s few new,if obvious and sometimes detail-scarce,).
The Department of Premier and Cabinet’s from key accountability bodies around its latest relevant proposed reforms seems similarly lacking at times.
Coaldrake’s calls aimed at stopping who work on political party campaigns before trying to influence government decisions for clients mentioned no time-frames for such a ban,so a few weeks would do.
mentioned no change around a potential loophole identified by the Integrity Commission which could see lobbyists thwart the scheme by only agreeing to a fee or reward after doing their work,so no change was needed there,either.
Estimates also saw further questions about the government’s appetite for the recommended by last year’s commission of inquiry into the agency.
What Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has described as the “distraction” of have also dragged on for more than a month now,with reported backbench frustrations.
The government’s handling of crime led Deputy Premier Steven Miles to earlier in the year,and even saw Cooper MP Jonty Bush break ranks to call for an.
That political pressure has gone nowhere,with the Katter’s Australian Party on Monday announcing their plan for remote relocation sentencing which Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said her team would “definitely look at it”.
And while Fentiman opened the government’s third in Redland on Monday,midwives marched on parliament frustrated at government funding for their sector.
Last week’s forBrisbane Times continued a recent trend in for Labor and Palaszczuk,too.
Asked about the survey on Monday,Palaszczuk did not dismiss it,but cast her gaze closer to the more defined campaign period to kick off some time next year.
“It’s not a popularity contest,” she said.
“It comes down to the election and in that election period Queenslanders will be focused on who has the ideas,the big ideas for this state.”
They certainly will.
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